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llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hf

llava-hf Apache 2.0 out 3 years ago

7.57B parameters, images and text in, text out, 32K tokens of context.

Verified 2026-10-25 Rank #546 in LLMs · score 75 method v1 Sources 3 Downloads 30d 256.4k · #229 of 619 tracked

Can I run it?4.5GB at INT4Estimatefits a 16 GB cardmethod
Can I use it?Apache 2.0Permissive; patent grantlicence file2026-10-24
Do people use it?256.4kdownloads, 30 days#229 of 619 we track · top 37%+0 likes, downloads −16% this week315 likesHugging Face2026-10-24

Worth reading

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2 best of 2 tracked

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  1. ArticleTutorial: Try out LLaVA-v1.6-7B for freeinstill.tech · 2024-03-08 · 4 HN pts

Where it's used

Hugging Face does not say who downloads a model or with what. These are the proxies: API providers listing it, quantized builds, fine-tunes/adapters/merges, and Spaces that load it.

No API provider serves it, so its downloads are people running it themselves: 4 quantized builds and 67 Spaces.

  • As a service0no API provider listed
  • On own hardware4quantized builds
  • Built on202189 fine-tunes · 12 adapters · 1 merges
  • In apps67Hugging Face Spaces

Top Spaces running it: merve/llava-next ♥ 151 · merve/vision_papers ♥ 118 · TencentARC/BrushEdit ♥ 69 · zamal/Multimodal-Chat-PDF ♥ 12

Will it fit?

Weights only, an estimate: leave room for the KV cache. Method

Fits a 16 GB card at INT4

About 4.5 GB at INT4, 9.1 GB at FP8, 18 GB at BF16: weights only, so leave room for the KV cache.

16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 4.5 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT44.5 GBFP8: about 9.1 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP89.1 GBBF16: about 18 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF1618 GB
16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 4.5 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT44.5 GBFP8: about 9.1 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP89.1 GBBF16: about 18 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF1618 GB

Estimate params × bytes per param × 1.2 · how we estimate

The story so far

Weights, every dated article, and repo commits on one rail.

2 dated articles and 30 repo commits so far

Teal is the weights (2024-02-20), amber triangles are 2 dated articles (each links to it), grey ticks are repo commits.

MarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct2025-12-22: 1 repo commit2025-05-01: 1 repo commit2025-02-10: 1 repo commit2025-02-06: 1 repo commit2025-01-27: 1 repo commit2025-01-08: 1 repo commit2024-11-22: 1 repo commit2024-11-19: 2 repo commits2024-10-21: 1 repo commit2024-09-19: 1 repo commit2024-08-16: 1 repo commit2024-07-20: 1 repo commit2024-07-19: 1 repo commit2024-07-10: 1 repo commit2024-06-28: 2 repo commits2024-06-18: 2 repo commits2024-05-09: 1 repo commit2024-03-21: 1 repo commit2024-03-20: 2 repo commits2024-03-17: 7 repo commitsShow HN: Recaptcha Solver using LLaVA-v1.6 · 2024-02-19Tutorial: Try out LLaVA-v1.6-7B for free · 2024-03-08Weights 2024-02-20 · 2024-02-20Weights 2024-02-20now
MarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct2025-12-22: 1 repo commit2025-05-01: 1 repo commit2025-02-10: 1 repo commit2025-02-06: 1 repo commit2025-01-27: 1 repo commit2025-01-08: 1 repo commit2024-11-22: 1 repo commit2024-11-19: 2 repo commits2024-10-21: 1 repo commit2024-09-19: 1 repo commit2024-08-16: 1 repo commit2024-07-20: 1 repo commit2024-07-19: 1 repo commit2024-07-10: 1 repo commit2024-06-28: 2 repo commits2024-06-18: 2 repo commits2024-05-09: 1 repo commit2024-03-21: 1 repo commit2024-03-20: 2 repo commits2024-03-17: 7 repo commitsShow HN: Recaptcha Solver using LLaVA-v1.6 · 2024-02-19Tutorial: Try out LLaVA-v1.6-7B for free · 2024-03-08Weights 2024-02-20 · 2024-02-20Weights 2024-02-20now

What people built on it

206 derivatives on the Hub. Which build to run, by runtime: the most downloaded in each class.

206 derivatives on the Hub, most of them fine-tunes

From the Hugging Face model tree; quantized builds in teal, fine-tunes, merges and adapters in greys.

4 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)189 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)1 merge (Hugging Face model tree)12 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)4 quantized189 fine-tunes1 merge12 adapters
4 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)189 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)1 merge (Hugging Face model tree)12 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)4 quantized189 fine-tunes1 merge12 adapters

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Reference

Everything else, folded: the full tables, every source.

What the card says

1 cited sentence

Summary generated, cited

The architecture uses LlavaNextForConditionalGeneration to support multimodal chatbot use cases.[1][2]

  1. architectures
  2. “multimodal chatbot use cases”

Generated 2026-10-07 15:12 UTC by parasail-gemma-4-26b-a4b-it; each numeral points at the fact it rests on. Not a verdict.

Use-case evidence

3 use cases

What it is good at 3 use cases

Labels are evidence, not verdicts: measured a third-party leaderboard row for this model; author-reported a number the model author published in the card or eval files; structural a deterministic signal from the name, config or chat template, or a decision-model estimate. Each chip links to its source. All use cases.

Facts

22 fields

Listed in LLMs

Facts

Pipeline tagimage-text-to-text
Librarytransformers
ArchitecturesLlavaNextForConditionalGeneration
Model typellava_next
Dtypefloat16
Params by dtypeF16: 7,566,747,648
Size bandM
MoEno
Context length32,768 (config.json max_position_embeddings)
Languagesen
PapersarXiv:2310.03744
LicenseApache 2.0 (apache-2.0)
Hub snapshot2026-10-25

Servability

vLLM · SGLang

Servability

vLLM: supported · LlavaNextForConditionalGeneration · 7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6SGLang: not in registry · 773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed

vLLM registry (7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6) · SGLang registry (773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed) · Matched by architecture class name against each project's registry on main; 'supported' means the architecture is registered, not that this checkpoint was tested.

Hardware fit

3 estimates

Hardware fit ESTIMATE

Weights-only memory for llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hf: params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead. KV cache and activations are extra. How this is computed.

BF16 (2 bytes/param)18 GB · Single GPU (<24 GB)
FP8 (1 byte/param)9.1 GB · Single GPU (<24 GB)
INT4 (0.5 bytes/param)4.5 GB · Single GPU (<24 GB)

Weights only (params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead); KV cache and activations extra.

All variants

40 variants

Lineage

Original model Family: llava-hf/llava-v1.6 206 derivatives on the Hub

finetune: 189quantized: 4adapter: 12merge: 1

Top variants (40 shown, ranked by downloads)

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Variant Relation Quant Params Band License Author Likes Downloads
TIGER-Lab/VLM2Vec-LLaVa-Next finetune — 7.57B M apache-2.0 TIGER-Lab 1 87.6k
unsloth/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hf-bnb-4bit quantized -bnb 7.80B M apache-2.0 unsloth 9 61.6k
BAAI/BGE-VL-MLLM-S1 finetune — 7.57B M mit BAAI 23 55.4k
BAAI/BGE-VL-v1.5-mmeb finetune — 7.57B M mit BAAI 13 10.6k
unsloth/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hf finetune — 7.57B M apache-2.0 unsloth 4 9.1k
BAAI/BGE-VL-MLLM-S2 finetune — 7.57B M mit BAAI 17 6.5k
DeepGlint-AI/UniME-LLaVA-1.6-7B finetune — 7.57B M mit DeepGlint-AI 5 2.8k
BAAI/BGE-VL-v1.5-zs finetune — 7.57B M mit BAAI 9 1.9k
parasail-ai/VLM2Vec-LLaVa-Next-vllm finetune — 7.57B M apache-2.0 parasail-ai 2 841
OpenVINO/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hf-int8-ov quantized int8 — — apache-2.0 OpenVINO 0 844
Mantis-VL/llava_next_mistral_7b_4096 finetune — 7.57B M — Mantis-VL 2 710
thinhM5125024/llava-next-flickr30k-qlora-ckpt adapter — — — apache-2.0 thinhM5125024 1 526
OpenVINO/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hf-int4-ov quantized int4 — — apache-2.0 OpenVINO 2 387
JUNJIE99/MMRet-MLLM-S1 finetune — 7.57B M mit JUNJIE99 0 330
2dameneko/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hf-nf4 quantized -nf4 7.80B M apache-2.0 2dameneko 0 303
Narrator5000/llavanext-finetuned-stackoverflow-vqa adapter — — — apache-2.0 Narrator5000 1 211
UoM-CS-NeuroSymbolicAI/llava_next_mistral_math_10k finetune — 603K S other UoM-CS-NeuroSymbolicAI 1 205
aliencaocao/llava-1.6-mistral-7b-offensive-meme-singapore finetune — 7.57B M mit aliencaocao 0 216
JUNJIE99/MMRet-MLLM-S2 finetune — 7.57B M mit JUNJIE99 0 171
tomaarsen/BGE-VL-MLLM-S1 finetune — 7.57B M mit tomaarsen 0 170
htlou/mm-interp-RLAIF-V-Dataset-llava-mistral finetune — 7.57B M other htlou 0 162
tomaarsen/BGE-VL-MLLM-S2 finetune — 7.57B M mit tomaarsen 0 155
htlou/mm-interp-AA_text_image_to_text finetune — 7.57B M other htlou 0 121
htlou/mm-interp-RLAIF-V-L0-q0_25_preference finetune — 7.57B M other htlou 0 119
htlou/mm-interp-RLAIF-V-Dataset finetune — 7.57B M other htlou 0 116
htlou/mm-interp-RLAIF-V_Coocur-q0_50 finetune — 7.57B M other htlou 0 113
htlou/mm-interp-RLAIF-V-Cosi-q0_75 finetune — 7.57B M other htlou 0 107
htlou/mm-interp-AA_preference_cocour_0_50 finetune — 7.57B M other htlou 0 106
htlou/mm-interp-AA_preference_cocour_new_step10_0_10 finetune — 7.57B M other htlou 0 103
htlou/mm-interp-AA_preference_l0_0_75 finetune — 7.57B M other htlou 0 102
htlou/mm-interp-AA_preference_random_0_80 finetune — 7.57B M other htlou 0 101
htlou/mm-interp-AA_preference_cocour_new_step10_0_60 finetune — 7.57B M other htlou 0 100
htlou/mm-interp-AA_preference_l0_new_step10_0_20 finetune — 7.57B M other htlou 0 100
htlou/mm-interp-AA_preference_cocour_new_step10_0_30 finetune — 7.57B M other htlou 0 99
htlou/mm-interp-AA_preference_cocour_new_step10_0_100 finetune — 7.57B M other htlou 0 98
htlou/mm-interp-AA_preference_l0_new_step10_0_70 finetune — 7.57B M other htlou 0 98
htlou/mm-interp-AA_preference_random_0_90 finetune — 7.57B M other htlou 0 98
htlou/mm-interp-AA_preference_cosi_new_step10_0_50 finetune — 7.57B M other htlou 0 97
htlou/mm-interp-AA_preference_l0_new_step10_0_60 finetune — 7.57B M other htlou 0 97
htlou/mm-interp-Align-Anything-Cosi-q0_25 finetune — 7.57B M other htlou 0 95

Repository changelog

30 commits

Repository changelog 30 commits

DateCommitSHA
2025-12-22 Fix dtype for the language model (#46) 2424fdd
2025-05-01 Fixed a syntax error in code for "From transformers>=v4.48...." (#44) 52320fb
2025-02-10 Fix typo in chat template (assistant EOS token) (#43) 144bfb9
2025-02-06 Fix typo in README (#42) bb34097
2025-01-27 Update for chat template 0f72cba
2025-01-08 Update pipeline example 5cfc077
2024-11-22 add image as special token ed45ac3
2024-11-19 Create processor_config.json e361ef3
2024-11-19 checking endpoints demo example 0cfb71e
2024-10-21 histiry -> history (#33) 2f7f20b
2024-09-19 support system msg 8a7baf5
2024-08-16 update processor kwargs 216670a
2024-07-20 fix escape char 75e686c
2024-07-19 Update README.md d9c4295
2024-07-10 Create chat_template.json 33884fe
2024-06-28 Delete processor_config.json 05859c7
2024-06-28 Upload processor 3a3ab43
2024-06-18 Delete processor_config.json 213742d
2024-06-18 Upload processor a39ec3e
2024-05-09 Update license to match upstream (Apache) (#15) a1d5213
2024-03-21 Update README.md d7f9c48
2024-03-20 Update README.md c2e74c6
2024-03-20 Update README.md c509a63
2024-03-17 Update README.md dcc76c9
2024-03-17 Update README.md 9076059
2024-03-17 Upload processor 68f64ed
2024-03-17 Upload LlavaNextForConditionalGeneration f71b5f1
2024-03-17 Upload processor e01056c
2024-03-17 Upload LlavaNextForConditionalGeneration dfa9688
2024-03-17 Upload processor f5c511b

Articles and coverage

2 pieces

Ranked by source signals (HN, Lobsters, authority domains, official posts) and recency.

Analysis2

github.com2024-02-19authorityabout the llava v1.6 familyHN 3 pts · 0 comments
instill.tech2024-03-08HN 4 pts · 0 comments

Papers

1 paper

Papers 1

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Sources

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Sources

Hub snapshot: 2026-10-25 · HF API: 2026-10-24 21:40 UTC · Providers: 2026-10-24 21:44 UTC · Articles: 2026-10-24 21:46 UTC · Summary: 2026-10-07 15:12 UTC · Last verified 2026-10-25

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