molmo-7b-d-0924
"Molmo is a family of open vision-language models developed by the Allen Institute for AI. Molmo models are trained on PixMo, a dataset of 1 million, highly-curated image-text pairs. It has stat......"
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Molmo 7B-D
Molmo is a family of open vision-language models developed by the Allen Institute for AI. Molmo models are trained on PixMo, a dataset of 1 million, highly-curated image-text pairs. It has state-of-the-art performance among multimodal models with a similar size while being fully open-source. You can find all models in the Molmo family here. Learn more about the Molmo family in our announcement blog post or the paper.
Molmo 7B-D is based on Qwen2-7B and uses OpenAI CLIP as vision backbone. It performs comfortably between GPT-4V and GPT-4o on both academic benchmarks and human evaluation. It powers the Molmo demo at molmo.allenai.org.
This checkpoint is a preview of the Molmo release. All artifacts used in creating Molmo (PixMo dataset, training code, evaluations, intermediate checkpoints) will be made available at a later date, furthering our commitment to open-source AI development and reproducibility.
Sign up here to be the first to know when artifacts are released.
Quick links:
- 💬 Demo
- 📂 All Models
- 📃 Paper
- 🎥 Blog with Videos
Quick Start
To run Molmo, first install dependencies:
pip install einops torchvision
Then, follow these steps:
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoProcessor, GenerationConfig
from PIL import Image
import requests
# load the processor
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(
'allenai/Molmo-7B-D-0924',
trust_remote_code=True,
torch_dtype='auto',
device_map='auto'
)
# load the model
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
'allenai/Molmo-7B-D-0924',
trust_remote_code=True,
torch_dtype='auto',
device_map='auto'
)
# process the image and text
inputs = processor.process(
images=[Image.open(requests.get("https://picsum.photos/id/237/536/354", stream=True).raw)],
text="Describe this image."
)
# move inputs to the correct device and make a batch of size 1
inputs = {k: v.to(model.device).unsqueeze(0) for k, v in inputs.items()}
# generate output; maximum 200 new tokens; stop generation when <|endoftext|> is generated
output = model.generate_from_batch(
inputs,
GenerationConfig(max_new_tokens=200, stop_strings="<|endoftext|>"),
tokenizer=processor.tokenizer
)
# only get generated tokens; decode them to text
generated_tokens = output[0,inputs['input_ids'].size(1):]
generated_text = processor.tokenizer.decode(generated_tokens, skip_special_tokens=True)
# print the generated text
print(generated_text)
# >>> This image features an adorable black Labrador puppy, captured from a top-down
# perspective. The puppy is sitting on a wooden deck, which is composed ...
To make inference more efficient, run with autocast:
with torch.autocast(device_type="cuda", enabled=True, dtype=torch.bfloat16):
output = model.generate_from_batch(
inputs,
GenerationConfig(max_new_tokens=200, stop_strings="<|endoftext|>"),
tokenizer=processor.tokenizer
)
We did most of our evaluation in this setting (autocast on, but float32 weights)
To even further reduce the memory requirements, the model can be run with bfloat16 weights:
model.to(dtype=torch.bfloat16)
inputs["images"] = inputs["images"].to(torch.bfloat16)
output = model.generate_from_batch(
inputs,
GenerationConfig(max_new_tokens=200, stop_strings="<|endoftext|>"),
tokenizer=processor.tokenizer
)
Note that we have observed that this can change the output of the model compared to running with float32 weights.
vLLM
Molmo is supported in vLLM, however please use version <=0.7.2 until a prepreprocessing bug is fixed.
Evaluations
| Model | Average Score on 11 Academic Benchmarks | Human Preference Elo Rating |
|---|---|---|
| Molmo 72B | 81.2 | 1077 |
| Molmo 7B-D (this model) | 77.3 | 1056 |
| Molmo 7B-O | 74.6 | 1051 |
| MolmoE 1B | 68.6 | 1032 |
| GPT-4o | 78.5 | 1079 |
| GPT-4V | 71.1 | 1041 |
| Gemini 1.5 Pro | 78.3 | 1074 |
| Gemini 1.5 Flash | 75.1 | 1054 |
| Claude 3.5 Sonnet | 76.7 | 1069 |
| Claude 3 Opus | 66.4 | 971 |
| Claude 3 Haiku | 65.3 | 999 |
| Qwen VL2 72B | 79.4 | 1037 |
| Qwen VL2 7B | 73.7 | 1025 |
| Intern VL2 LLAMA 76B | 77.1 | 1018 |
| Intern VL2 8B | 69.4 | 953 |
| Pixtral 12B | 69.5 | 1016 |
| Phi3.5-Vision 4B | 59.7 | 982 |
| PaliGemma 3B | 50.0 | 937 |
| LLAVA OneVision 72B | 76.6 | 1051 |
| LLAVA OneVision 7B | 72.0 | 1024 |
| Cambrian-1 34B | 66.8 | 953 |
| Cambrian-1 8B | 63.4 | 952 |
| xGen - MM - Interleave 4B | 59.5 | 979 |
| LLAVA-1.5 13B | 43.9 | 960 |
| LLAVA-1.5 7B | 40.7 | 951 |
Benchmarks: AI2D test, ChartQA test, VQA v2.0 test, DocQA test, InfographicVQA test, TextVQA val, RealWorldQA, MMMU val, MathVista testmini, CountBenchQA, Flickr Count (we collected this new dataset that is significantly harder than CountBenchQA).
FAQs
I'm getting an error a broadcast error when processing images!
Your image might not be in RGB format. You can convert it using the following code snippet:
from PIL import Image
image = Image.open(...)
if image.mode != "RGB":
image = image.convert("RGB")
Molmo doesn't work great with transparent images!
We received reports that Molmo models might struggle with transparent images. For the time being, we recommend adding a white or dark background to your images before passing them to the model. The code snippet below shows how to do this using the Python Imaging Library (PIL):
# Load the image
url = "..."
image = Image.open(requests.get(url, stream=True).raw)
# Convert the image to grayscale to calculate brightness
gray_image = image.convert('L') # Convert to grayscale
# Calculate the average brightness
stat = ImageStat.Stat(gray_image)
average_brightness = stat.mean[0] # Get the average value
# Define background color based on brightness (threshold can be adjusted)
bg_color = (0, 0, 0) if average_brightness > 127 else (255, 255, 255)
# Create a new image with the same size as the original, filled with the background color
new_image = Image.new('RGB', image.size, bg_color)
# Paste the original image on top of the background (use image as a mask if needed)
new_image.paste(image, (0, 0), image if image.mode == 'RGBA' else None)
# Now you can pass the new_image to Molmo
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(
'allenai/Molmo-7B-D-0924',
trust_remote_code=True,
torch_dtype='auto',
device_map='auto'
)
License and Use
This model is licensed under Apache 2.0. It is intended for research and educational use. For more information, please see our Responsible Use Guidelines.
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Molmo 7B-D
Molmo is a family of open vision-language models developed by the Allen Institute for AI. Molmo models are trained on PixMo, a dataset of 1 million, highly-curated image-text pairs. It has state-of-the-art performance among multimodal models with a similar size while being fully open-source. You can find all models in the Molmo family here. Learn more about the Molmo family in our announcement blog post or the paper.
Molmo 7B-D is based on Qwen2-7B and uses OpenAI CLIP as vision backbone. It performs comfortably between GPT-4V and GPT-4o on both academic benchmarks and human evaluation. It powers the Molmo demo at molmo.allenai.org.
This checkpoint is a preview of the Molmo release. All artifacts used in creating Molmo (PixMo dataset, training code, evaluations, intermediate checkpoints) will be made available at a later date, furthering our commitment to open-source AI development and reproducibility.
Sign up here to be the first to know when artifacts are released.
Quick links:
- 💬 Demo
- 📂 All Models
- 📃 Paper
- 🎥 Blog with Videos
Quick Start
To run Molmo, first install dependencies:
pip install einops torchvision
Then, follow these steps:
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoProcessor, GenerationConfig
from PIL import Image
import requests
# load the processor
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(
'allenai/Molmo-7B-D-0924',
trust_remote_code=True,
torch_dtype='auto',
device_map='auto'
)
# load the model
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
'allenai/Molmo-7B-D-0924',
trust_remote_code=True,
torch_dtype='auto',
device_map='auto'
)
# process the image and text
inputs = processor.process(
images=[Image.open(requests.get("https://picsum.photos/id/237/536/354", stream=True).raw)],
text="Describe this image."
)
# move inputs to the correct device and make a batch of size 1
inputs = {k: v.to(model.device).unsqueeze(0) for k, v in inputs.items()}
# generate output; maximum 200 new tokens; stop generation when <|endoftext|> is generated
output = model.generate_from_batch(
inputs,
GenerationConfig(max_new_tokens=200, stop_strings="<|endoftext|>"),
tokenizer=processor.tokenizer
)
# only get generated tokens; decode them to text
generated_tokens = output[0,inputs['input_ids'].size(1):]
generated_text = processor.tokenizer.decode(generated_tokens, skip_special_tokens=True)
# print the generated text
print(generated_text)
# >>> This image features an adorable black Labrador puppy, captured from a top-down
# perspective. The puppy is sitting on a wooden deck, which is composed ...
To make inference more efficient, run with autocast:
with torch.autocast(device_type="cuda", enabled=True, dtype=torch.bfloat16):
output = model.generate_from_batch(
inputs,
GenerationConfig(max_new_tokens=200, stop_strings="<|endoftext|>"),
tokenizer=processor.tokenizer
)
We did most of our evaluation in this setting (autocast on, but float32 weights)
To even further reduce the memory requirements, the model can be run with bfloat16 weights:
model.to(dtype=torch.bfloat16)
inputs["images"] = inputs["images"].to(torch.bfloat16)
output = model.generate_from_batch(
inputs,
GenerationConfig(max_new_tokens=200, stop_strings="<|endoftext|>"),
tokenizer=processor.tokenizer
)
Note that we have observed that this can change the output of the model compared to running with float32 weights.
vLLM
Molmo is supported in vLLM, however please use version <=0.7.2 until a prepreprocessing bug is fixed.
Evaluations
| Model | Average Score on 11 Academic Benchmarks | Human Preference Elo Rating |
|---|---|---|
| Molmo 72B | 81.2 | 1077 |
| Molmo 7B-D (this model) | 77.3 | 1056 |
| Molmo 7B-O | 74.6 | 1051 |
| MolmoE 1B | 68.6 | 1032 |
| GPT-4o | 78.5 | 1079 |
| GPT-4V | 71.1 | 1041 |
| Gemini 1.5 Pro | 78.3 | 1074 |
| Gemini 1.5 Flash | 75.1 | 1054 |
| Claude 3.5 Sonnet | 76.7 | 1069 |
| Claude 3 Opus | 66.4 | 971 |
| Claude 3 Haiku | 65.3 | 999 |
| Qwen VL2 72B | 79.4 | 1037 |
| Qwen VL2 7B | 73.7 | 1025 |
| Intern VL2 LLAMA 76B | 77.1 | 1018 |
| Intern VL2 8B | 69.4 | 953 |
| Pixtral 12B | 69.5 | 1016 |
| Phi3.5-Vision 4B | 59.7 | 982 |
| PaliGemma 3B | 50.0 | 937 |
| LLAVA OneVision 72B | 76.6 | 1051 |
| LLAVA OneVision 7B | 72.0 | 1024 |
| Cambrian-1 34B | 66.8 | 953 |
| Cambrian-1 8B | 63.4 | 952 |
| xGen - MM - Interleave 4B | 59.5 | 979 |
| LLAVA-1.5 13B | 43.9 | 960 |
| LLAVA-1.5 7B | 40.7 | 951 |
Benchmarks: AI2D test, ChartQA test, VQA v2.0 test, DocQA test, InfographicVQA test, TextVQA val, RealWorldQA, MMMU val, MathVista testmini, CountBenchQA, Flickr Count (we collected this new dataset that is significantly harder than CountBenchQA).
FAQs
I'm getting an error a broadcast error when processing images!
Your image might not be in RGB format. You can convert it using the following code snippet:
from PIL import Image
image = Image.open(...)
if image.mode != "RGB":
image = image.convert("RGB")
Molmo doesn't work great with transparent images!
We received reports that Molmo models might struggle with transparent images. For the time being, we recommend adding a white or dark background to your images before passing them to the model. The code snippet below shows how to do this using the Python Imaging Library (PIL):
# Load the image
url = "..."
image = Image.open(requests.get(url, stream=True).raw)
# Convert the image to grayscale to calculate brightness
gray_image = image.convert('L') # Convert to grayscale
# Calculate the average brightness
stat = ImageStat.Stat(gray_image)
average_brightness = stat.mean[0] # Get the average value
# Define background color based on brightness (threshold can be adjusted)
bg_color = (0, 0, 0) if average_brightness > 127 else (255, 255, 255)
# Create a new image with the same size as the original, filled with the background color
new_image = Image.new('RGB', image.size, bg_color)
# Paste the original image on top of the background (use image as a mask if needed)
new_image.paste(image, (0, 0), image if image.mode == 'RGBA' else None)
# Now you can pass the new_image to Molmo
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(
'allenai/Molmo-7B-D-0924',
trust_remote_code=True,
torch_dtype='auto',
device_map='auto'
)
License and Use
This model is licensed under Apache 2.0. It is intended for research and educational use. For more information, please see our Responsible Use Guidelines.
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- • Benchmark scores may vary based on evaluation methodology and hardware configuration.
- • VRAM requirements are estimates; actual usage depends on quantization and batch size.
- • FNI scores are relative rankings and may change as new models are added.
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@misc{hf_model__allenai__molmo_7b_d_0924,
author = {allenai},
title = {undefined Model},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/allenai/molmo-7b-d-0924}},
note = {Accessed via Free2AITools Knowledge Fortress}
} AI Summary: Based on Hugging Face metadata. Not a recommendation.
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⚙️ Technical Specs
- architecture
- MolmoForCausalLM
- params billions
- 8.02
- context length
- 4,096
- vram gb
- 7.3
- vram is estimated
- true
- vram formula
- VRAM ≈ (params * 0.75) + 0.8GB (KV) + 0.5GB (OS)
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