1. Model Summary 2. Limitations 3. Training 4. License 5. Citation SmolLM2 is a family of compact language models available in three size: 135M, 360M, and 1.7B parameters. They are capable of solving a wide range of tasks while being lightweight enough to run on-device. More details in our paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.02737 SmolLM2 demonstrates significant advances over its predecessor SmolLM1, particularly in instruction following, knowledge, reasoning. The 135M model was trained on 2 trillion tokens using a diverse dataset combination: FineWeb-Edu, DCLM, The Stack, along with new filtered datasets we curated and will release soon. We developed the instruct version through supervised fine-tuning (SFT) using a combination of public datasets and our own curated datasets. We then applied Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) using UltraFeedback.
1. Model Summary 2. Limitations 3. Training 4. License 5. Citation SmolLM2 is a family of compact language models available in three size: 135M, 360M, and 1.7B parameters. They are capable of solving a wide range of tasks while being lightweight enough to run on-device. More details in our paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.02737 SmolLM2 demonstrates significant advances over its predecessor SmolLM1, particularly in instruction following, knowledge, reasoning. The 135M model was trained on 2 trillion tokens using a diverse dataset combination: FineWeb-Edu, DCLM, The Stack, along with new filtered datasets we curated and will release soon. We developed the instruct version through supervised fine-tuning (SFT) using a combination of public datasets and our own curated datasets. We then applied Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) using UltraFeedback.
1. Model Summary 2. Limitations 3. Training 4. License 5. Citation SmolLM2 is a family of compact language models available in three size: 135M, 360M, and 1.7B parameters. They are capable of solving a wide range of tasks while being lightweight enough to run on-device. More details in our paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.02737 SmolLM2 demonstrates significant advances over its predecessor SmolLM1, particularly in instruction following, knowledge, reasoning. The 360M model was trained on 4 trillion tokens using a diverse dataset combination: FineWeb-Edu, DCLM, The Stack, along with new filtered datasets we curated and will release soon. We developed the instruct version through supervised fine-tuning (SFT) using a combination of public datasets and our own curated datasets. We then applied Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) using UltraFeedback.
1. Model Summary 2. Limitations 3. Training 4. License 5. Citation SmolLM2 is a family of compact language models available in three size: 135M, 360M, and 1.7B parameters. They are capable of solving a wide range of tasks while being lightweight enough to run on-device. More details in our paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.02737 SmolLM2 demonstrates significant advances over its predecessor SmolLM1, particularly in instruction following, knowledge, reasoning. The 360M model was trained on 4 trillion tokens using a diverse dataset combination: FineWeb-Edu, DCLM, The Stack, along with new filtered datasets we curated and will release soon. We developed the instruct version through supervised fine-tuning (SFT) using a combination of public datasets and our own curated datasets. We then applied Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) using UltraFeedback.
This model was converted to GGUF format from `HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct` using llama.cpp via the ggml.ai's GGUF-my-repo space. Refer to the original model card for more details on the model. Note: You can also use this checkpoint directly through the usage steps listed in the Llama.cpp repo as well. Step 2: Move into the llama.cpp folder and build it with `LLAMA_CURL=1` flag along with other hardware-specific flags (for ex: LLAMA_CUDA=1 for Nvidia GPUs on Linux).
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1. Model Summary 2. How to use 3. Evaluation 4. Training 5. Limitations 6. License SmolLM3 is a 3B parameter language model designed to push the boundaries of small models. It supports dual mode reasoning, 6 languages and long context. SmolLM3 is a fully open model that offers strong performance at the 3B–4B scale. The model is a decoder-only transformer using GQA and NoPE (with 3:1 ratio), it was pretrained on 11.2T tokens with a staged curriculum of web, code, math and reasoning data. Post-training included midtraining on 140B reasoning tokens followed by supervised fine-tuning and alignment via Anchored Preference Optimization (APO).
1. Model Summary 2. How to use 3. Evaluation 4. Training 5. Limitations 6. License SmolLM3 is a 3B parameter language model designed to push the boundaries of small models. It supports 6 languages, advanced reasoning and long context. SmolLM3 is a fully open model that offers strong performance at the 3B–4B scale. **SmolLM3-3B-Base** is the base model after pretraining, you can find the instruct model at SmolLM3-3B.
We release checkpoints every 40,000 steps, which equals 94.4B tokens. The GBS (Global Batch Size) in tokens for SmolLM3-3B is 2,359,296. To calculate the number of tokens from a given step: For the additional 2 stages that extend the context length to 64k, we sample checkpoints every 4,000 steps (9.4B tokens) for a total of 10 checkpoints: We release checkpoints at every step of our post-training recipe: Mid training, SFT, APO soup, and LC expert.
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SmolVLM-256M is the smallest multimodal model in the world. It accepts arbitrary sequences of image and text inputs to produce text outputs. It's designed for efficiency. SmolVLM can answer questions about images, describe visual content, or transcribe text. Its lightweight architecture makes it suitable for on-device applications while maintaining strong performance on multimodal tasks. It can run inference on one image with under 1GB of GPU RAM. - **Developed by:** Hugging Face 🤗 - **Model type:** Multi-modal model (image+text) - **Language(s) (NLP):** English - **License:** Apache 2.0 - **Architecture:** Based on Idefics3 (see technical summary) - **Demo:** SmolVLM-256 Demo - **Blog:** Blog post
SmolVLM-500M is a tiny multimodal model, member of the SmolVLM family. It accepts arbitrary sequences of image and text inputs to produce text outputs. It's designed for efficiency. SmolVLM can answer questions about images, describe visual content, or transcribe text. Its lightweight architecture makes it suitable for on-device applications while maintaining strong performance on multimodal tasks. It can run inference on one image with 1.23GB of GPU RAM. - **Developed by:** Hugging Face 🤗 - **Model type:** Multi-modal model (image+text) - **Language(s) (NLP):** English - **License:** Apache 2.0 - **Architecture:** Based on Idefics3 (see technical summary) - **Demo:** SmolVLM-256 Demo - **Blog:** Blog post
SmolVLM is a compact open multimodal model that accepts arbitrary sequences of image and text inputs to produce text outputs. Designed for efficiency, SmolVLM can answer questions about images, describe visual content, create stories grounded on multiple images, or function as a pure language model without visual inputs. Its lightweight architecture makes it suitable for on-device applications while maintaining strong performance on multimodal tasks. SmolVLM can be used for inference on multimodal (image + text) tasks where the input comprises text queries along with one or more images. Text and images can be interleaved arbitrarily, enabling tasks like image captioning, visual question answering, and storytelling based on visual content. The model does not support image generation. SmolVLM leverages the lightweight SmolLM2 language model to provide a compact yet powerful multimodal experience. It introduces several changes compared to previous Idefics models:
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