| **Qwen-VL** (Qwen2 series) | `Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct` | `qwen2-vl` | Alibaba’s vision-language extension of Qwen; for example, Qwen2.5-VL (7B and larger variants) can analyze and converse about image content. |
| **DeepSeek-VL2** | `deepseek-ai/deepseek-vl2` | `deepseek-vl2` | Vision-language variant of DeepSeek (with a dedicated image processor), enabling advanced multimodal reasoning on image and text inputs. |
| **Janus-Pro** (1B, 7B) | `deepseek-ai/Janus-Pro-7B` | `janus-pro` | DeepSeek’s open-source multimodal model capable of both image understanding and generation. Janus-Pro employs a decoupled architecture for separate visual encoding paths, enhancing performance in both tasks. |
| **MiniCPM-V / MiniCPM-o** | `openbmb/MiniCPM-V-2_6` | `minicpmv` | MiniCPM-V (2.6, ~8B) supports image inputs, and MiniCPM-o adds audio/video; these multimodal LLMs are optimized for end-side deployment on mobile/edge devices. |
| **Llama 3.2 Vision** (11B) | `meta-llama/Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct` | `llama_3_vision` | Vision-enabled variant of Llama 3 (11B) that accepts image inputs for visual question answering and other multimodal tasks. |
| **LLaVA** (v1.5 & v1.6) | *e.g.*`liuhaotian/llava-v1.5-13b` | `vicuna_v1.1` | Open vision-chat models that add an image encoder to LLaMA/Vicuna (e.g. LLaMA2 13B) for following multimodal instruction prompts. |
| **LLaVA-NeXT** (8B, 72B) | `lmms-lab/llava-next-72b` | `chatml-llava` | Improved LLaVA models (with an 8B Llama3 version and a 72B version) offering enhanced visual instruction-following and accuracy on multimodal benchmarks. |
| **LLaVA-OneVision** | `lmms-lab/llava-onevision-qwen2-7b-ov` | `chatml-llava` | Enhanced LLaVA variant integrating Qwen as the backbone; supports multiple images (and even video frames) as inputs via an OpenAI Vision API-compatible format. |
| **Gemma 3 (Multimodal)** | `google/gemma-3-4b-it` | `gemma-it` | Gemma 3's larger models (4B, 12B, 27B) accept images (each image encoded as 256 tokens) alongside text in a combined 128K-token context. |
| **Kimi-VL** (A3B) | `moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct` | `kimi-vl` | Kimi-VL is a multimodal model that can understand and generate text from images. |
| **Mistral-Small-3.1-24B** | `mistralai/Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503` | `mistral` | Mistral 3.1 is a multimodal model that can generate text from text or images input. It also supports tool calling and structured output. |
| **Phi-4-multimodal-instruct** | `microsoft/Phi-4-multimodal-instruct` | `phi-4-mm` | Phi-4-multimodal-instruct is the multimodal variant of the Phi-4-mini model, enhanced with LoRA for improved multimodal capabilities. It supports text, vision and audio modalities in SGLang. |
| **MiMo-VL** (7B) | `XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-VL-7B-RL` | `mimo-vl` | Xiaomi's compact yet powerful vision-language model featuring a native resolution ViT encoder for fine-grained visual details, an MLP projector for cross-modal alignment, and the MiMo-7B language model optimized for complex reasoning tasks. |
| **GLM-4.5V** (106B) / **GLM-4.1V**(9B) | `zai-org/GLM-4.5V` | `glm-4v` | GLM-4.5V and GLM-4.1V-Thinking: Towards Versatile Multimodal Reasoning with Scalable Reinforcement Learning |
| Model Family (Variants) | Example HuggingFace Identifier | Description | Notes |
| **Qwen-VL** | `Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct` | Alibaba's vision-language extension of Qwen; for example, Qwen2.5-VL (7B and larger variants) can analyze and converse about image content. | |
| **DeepSeek-VL2** | `deepseek-ai/deepseek-vl2` | Vision-language variant of DeepSeek (with a dedicated image processor), enabling advanced multimodal reasoning on image and text inputs. | |
| **Janus-Pro** (1B, 7B) | `deepseek-ai/Janus-Pro-7B` | DeepSeek's open-source multimodal model capable of both image understanding and generation. Janus-Pro employs a decoupled architecture for separate visual encoding paths, enhancing performance in both tasks. | |
| **MiniCPM-V / MiniCPM-o** | `openbmb/MiniCPM-V-2_6` | MiniCPM-V (2.6, ~8B) supports image inputs, and MiniCPM-o adds audio/video; these multimodal LLMs are optimized for end-side deployment on mobile/edge devices. | |
| **Llama 3.2 Vision** (11B) | `meta-llama/Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct` | Vision-enabled variant of Llama 3 (11B) that accepts image inputs for visual question answering and other multimodal tasks. | |
| **LLaVA** (v1.5 & v1.6) | *e.g.*`liuhaotian/llava-v1.5-13b` | Open vision-chat models that add an image encoder to LLaMA/Vicuna (e.g. LLaMA2 13B) for following multimodal instruction prompts. | |
| **LLaVA-NeXT** (8B, 72B) | `lmms-lab/llava-next-72b` | Improved LLaVA models (with an 8B Llama3 version and a 72B version) offering enhanced visual instruction-following and accuracy on multimodal benchmarks. | |
| **LLaVA-OneVision** | `lmms-lab/llava-onevision-qwen2-7b-ov` | Enhanced LLaVA variant integrating Qwen as the backbone; supports multiple images (and even video frames) as inputs via an OpenAI Vision API-compatible format. | |
| **Gemma 3 (Multimodal)** | `google/gemma-3-4b-it` | Gemma 3's larger models (4B, 12B, 27B) accept images (each image encoded as 256 tokens) alongside text in a combined 128K-token context. | |
| **Kimi-VL** (A3B) | `moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct` | Kimi-VL is a multimodal model that can understand and generate text from images. | |
| **Mistral-Small-3.1-24B** | `mistralai/Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503` | Mistral 3.1 is a multimodal model that can generate text from text or images input. It also supports tool calling and structured output. | |
| **Phi-4-multimodal-instruct** | `microsoft/Phi-4-multimodal-instruct` | Phi-4-multimodal-instruct is the multimodal variant of the Phi-4-mini model, enhanced with LoRA for improved multimodal capabilities. It supports text, vision and audio modalities in SGLang. | |
| **MiMo-VL** (7B) | `XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-VL-7B-RL` | Xiaomi's compact yet powerful vision-language model featuring a native resolution ViT encoder for fine-grained visual details, an MLP projector for cross-modal alignment, and the MiMo-7B language model optimized for complex reasoning tasks. | |
| **GLM-4.5V** (106B) / **GLM-4.1V**(9B) | `zai-org/GLM-4.5V` | GLM-4.5V and GLM-4.1V-Thinking: Towards Versatile Multimodal Reasoning with Scalable Reinforcement Learning | Use `--chat-template glm-4v` |
| **DotsVLM** (General/OCR) | `rednote-hilab/dots.vlm1.inst` | RedNote's vision-language model built on a 1.2B vision encoder and DeepSeek V3 LLM, featuring NaViT vision encoder trained from scratch with dynamic resolution support and enhanced OCR capabilities through structured image data training. | |
| **DotsVLM-OCR** | `rednote-hilab/dots.ocr` | Specialized OCR variant of DotsVLM optimized for optical character recognition tasks with enhanced text extraction and document understanding capabilities. | Don't use `--trust-remote-code` |
## Usage Notes
### Performance Optimization
For multimodal models, you can use the `--keep-mm-feature-on-device` flag to optimize for latency at the cost of increased GPU memory usage:
-**Default behavior**: Multimodal feature tensors are moved to CPU after processing to save GPU memory
-**With `--keep-mm-feature-on-device`**: Feature tensors remain on GPU, reducing device-to-host copy overhead and improving latency, but consuming more GPU memory
Use this flag when you have sufficient GPU memory and want to minimize latency for multimodal inference.
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