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- Publisher (HF namespace)
- vikhyatk
- Pipeline tag
- image-text-to-text
- Library
- Transformers
- Weight formats
- safetensors
- License tag
apache-2.0— read the license file in the repo before relying on it- Downloads (HF counter at last fetch)
- 1,605,038
- Likes (HF counter at last fetch)
- 1,435
- Model card
- https://huggingface.co/vikhyatk/moondream2
Use cases
- On-device image description on phones or edge devices
- Lightweight visual QA where 7B+ VLMs are too expensive
- Automated image alt-text generation at scale
- First-pass image understanding before routing to a larger model
Pros
- Under 4GB memory footprint — runs on consumer laptops
- Apache-2.0 licensed
- Strong benchmark performance per parameter count
- Active development with frequent checkpoint releases
Cons
- 1.9B scale misses nuanced visual details that larger models catch
- Hallucination rate is higher than 7B VLMs on knowledge-grounded visual questions
- Single image input — no multi-image or video context
- Limited fine-tuning documentation compared to larger model families
Tags
transformerssafetensorsmoondream1text-generationimage-text-to-textcustom_codedoi:10.57967/hf/6762license:apache-2.0eval-resultsendpoints_compatibleregion:us