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Phi-3.5-vision-instruct

microsoft MIT out 2 years ago

4.15B parameters, images and text in, text out, 128K tokens of context.

Verified 2026-10-25 Rank #177 in LLMs · score 90.5 method v1 Sources 3 Downloads 30d 516.8k · #163 of 619 tracked

Changed this week: 1 new quantized build on the Hub (14 in all).2026-10-24

Can I run it?2.5GB at INT4Estimatefits a 16 GB cardmethod
Can I use it?MITPermissivelicence file2026-10-24
Do people use it?516.8kdownloads, 30 days#163 of 619 we track · top 26%+2 likes, downloads −19% this week748 likesHugging Face2026-10-24

Worth reading

Picked by rule from 9 tracked pieces: the lab's own post, the most shared, a field report, the latest.

Latest · 2 years ago

Show HN: RetNPhi – Phi-3.5 as a Byte-Level LM with RetNet-Inspired Efficiency

RetNPhi is an experimental architecture that transforms Phi-3.5 into a byte-level language model incorporating RetNet-inspired mechanisms.

  • The tokenizer defaults to a vocabulary of 256 bytes when no custom file path is provided.
  • The retention mechanism calculates decay factors using logarithmic scales between 1/32 and 1/512.
github.com 2024-09-02 2 HN pts 3.1k words about the Phi 3.5 family family

9 best of 9 tracked

The 2 picks above, plus these 7. Top is the radar's score: discussion, source authority and the lab's own posts, fading with age.

  1. ArticleDiscover the New Multi-Lingual, High-Quality Phi-3.5 SLMstechcommunity.microsoft.com · undated · official
  2. ArticleMicrosoft releases powerful new Phi-3.5 models, beating Google, OpenAI and moreventurebeat.com · 2024-08-21 · 6 HN pts
  3. ArticlePhi-3.5-vision-instruct | Model Catalog | Microsoft Foundryai.azure.us · undated
  4. ArticlePhi-3.5 Vision Instruct | Open Laboratoryopenlaboratory.com · undated
  5. ArticlePhi 3.5 Vision Instruct – 128k context, multimodal, open source | LLM Referencellmreference.com · undated
  6. ArticleRun with Phi 3.5-mini across GPUs, CPUs and OSessecondstate.io · 2024-09-03
  7. ArticleLLM: Against all odds – The token paths not takenalgo-consult.com · 2025-11-21 · 1 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: 14 quantized builds and 100 Spaces.

  • As a service0no API provider listed
  • On own hardware14quantized builds
  • Built on2923 fine-tunes · 6 adapters · 0 merges
  • In apps100+Hugging Face Spaces

Top Spaces running it: MaziyarPanahi/Phi-3.5-Vision ♥ 228 · TIGER-Lab/MEGA-Bench ♥ 51 · jiuhai/Florence-VL-8B ♥ 40 · maxiw/Phi-3.5-vision ♥ 31

Will it fit?

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

Fits a 16 GB card at INT4

About 2.5 GB at INT4, 5.0 GB at FP8, 10 GB at BF16: weights only, so leave room for the KV cache.

16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 2.5 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT42.5 GBFP8: about 5.0 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP85.0 GBBF16: about 10 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF1610 GB
16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 2.5 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT42.5 GBFP8: about 5.0 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP85.0 GBBF16: about 10 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF1610 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.

3 dated articles and 14 repo commits so far

Teal is the weights (2024-08-16), amber triangles are 3 dated articles (each links to it), grey ticks are repo commits.

SepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct2025-12-10: 2 repo commits2024-09-26: 1 repo commit2024-09-07: 1 repo commit2024-08-30: 1 repo commit2024-08-23: 1 repo commit2024-08-20: 6 repo commits2024-08-19: 1 repo commit2024-08-16: 1 repo commitMicrosoft releases powerful new Phi-3.5 models, beating Google, OpenAI and more · 2024-08-21Show HN: RetNPhi – Phi-3.5 as a Byte-Level LM with RetNet-Inspired Efficiency · 2024-09-02LLM: Against all odds – The token paths not taken · 2025-11-21Weights 2024-08-16 · 2024-08-16Weights 2024-08-16now
SepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct2025-12-10: 2 repo commits2024-09-26: 1 repo commit2024-09-07: 1 repo commit2024-08-30: 1 repo commit2024-08-23: 1 repo commit2024-08-20: 6 repo commits2024-08-19: 1 repo commit2024-08-16: 1 repo commitMicrosoft releases powerful new Phi-3.5 models, beating Google, OpenAI and more · 2024-08-21Show HN: RetNPhi – Phi-3.5 as a Byte-Level LM with RetNet-Inspired Efficiency · 2024-09-02LLM: Against all odds – The token paths not taken · 2025-11-21Weights 2024-08-16 · 2024-08-16Weights 2024-08-16now

What people built on it

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

43 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.

14 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)23 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)6 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)14 quantized23 fine-tunes6 adapters
14 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)23 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)6 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)14 quantized23 fine-tunes6 adapters

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Reference

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

Benchmarks

11 rows

Benchmarks 11 rows

measured third-party leaderboard rowauthor-reported number from the model card or eval files (11)No confidence intervals unless the source gave them; settings differ between rows, so compare within a benchmark, not across. Date = the benchmark's own date when it gives one, else when we read it.
BenchmarkValueSetting / notesReported byDate
author-reported Art Style87.2BLINKmodel author2026-10-07
author-reported Counting54.2BLINKmodel author2026-10-07
author-reported Forensic Detection92.4BLINKmodel author2026-10-07
author-reported Functional Correspondence29.2BLINKmodel author2026-10-07
author-reported IQ Test25.3BLINKmodel author2026-10-07
author-reported Jigsaw68BLINKmodel author2026-10-07
author-reported Multi-View Reasoning54.1BLINKmodel author2026-10-07
author-reported Object Localization49.2BLINKmodel author2026-10-07
author-reported Relative Depth69.4BLINKmodel author2026-10-07
author-reported Relative Reflectance37.3BLINKmodel author2026-10-07
author-reported Semantic Correspondence36.7BLINKmodel author2026-10-07

What the card says

1 cited sentence

Summary generated, cited

The model supports a 128K context length and is released under an MIT license.[1][2]

  1. “128K context length (in tokens) it can support”
  2. license

Generated 2026-10-07 15:03 UTC by parasail-gemma-4-26b-a4b-it; each numeral points at the fact it rests on. Not a verdict.

Use-case evidence

7 use cases

What it is good at 7 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
ArchitecturesPhi3VForCausalLM
Model typephi3_v
Dtypebfloat16
Params by dtypeBF16: 4,146,621,440
Size bandM
MoEno
Context length131,072 (config.json max_position_embeddings)
Languagesmultilingual
PapersarXiv:2404.14219
LicenseMIT (mit)
Hub snapshot2026-10-25

Servability

vLLM · SGLang

Servability

vLLM: supported · Phi3VForCausalLM · 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 Phi-3.5-vision-instruct: params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead. KV cache and activations are extra. How this is computed.

BF16 (2 bytes/param)10 GB · Single GPU (<24 GB)
FP8 (1 byte/param)5.0 GB · Single GPU (<24 GB)
INT4 (0.5 bytes/param)2.5 GB · Edge (<4 GB)

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

All variants

40 variants

Lineage

Original model Family: microsoft/Phi-3.5 43 derivatives on the Hub

finetune: 23quantized: 14adapter: 6

Top variants (40 shown, ranked by downloads)

Relation
Quant
40 rows
Variant Relation Quant Params Band License Author Likes Downloads
TIGER-Lab/VLM2Vec-Full finetune — 4.15B M apache-2.0 TIGER-Lab 29 3M
OpenVINO/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct-int8-ov quantized int8 — — mit OpenVINO 2 442.6k
OpenVINO/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct-int4-ov quantized int4 — — mit OpenVINO 0 23.5k
yifeihu/TB-OCR-preview-0.1 finetune — 4.25B M mit yifeihu 129 7.4k
DeepGlint-AI/UniME-Phi3.5-V-4.2B finetune — — — mit DeepGlint-AI 7 7.5k
mlc-ai/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct-q4f16_1-MLC quantized — — — — mlc-ai 3 7.3k
nm-testing/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct-FP8-dynamic quantized -FP8 4.25B M — nm-testing 0 6.7k
MBZUAI/BiMediX2-4B finetune — — — cc-by-nc-sa-4.0 MBZUAI 1 5.7k
microsoft/Phi-Ground finetune — — — mit microsoft 24 3.8k
TIGER-Lab/VLM2Vec-LoRA finetune — — — apache-2.0 TIGER-Lab 12 3.7k
microsoft/Phi-Ground-Any finetune — — — mit microsoft 22 2.6k
mlc-ai/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct-q4f32_1-MLC quantized — — — — mlc-ai 0 2.2k
OpenVINO/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct-fp16-ov finetune -fp16 — — mit OpenVINO 2 1.9k
onnx-community/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct quantized — — — — onnx-community 2 1.2k
muhtasham/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct_20240915_223241 finetune — 4.25B M mit muhtasham 0 543
OPEA/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct-int4-sym-inc quantized int4 — — mit OPEA 0 481
OPEA/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct-qvision-int4-sym-inc quantized int4 — — mit OPEA 1 344
muhtasham/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct_20240916_162052 finetune — 4.25B M mit muhtasham 0 379
nm-testing/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct-W8A8-Dynamic-Per-Token quantized -W8A8 4.25B M — nm-testing 0 340
EricB/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct-UQFF quantized — — — — EricB 0 315
mlc-ai/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct-q3f16_1-MLC quantized — — — — mlc-ai 1 241
mlc-ai/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct-q0f16-MLC quantized — — — — mlc-ai 2 139
vaibhavmeena/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct-amz-lora finetune — — — mit vaibhavmeena 0 183
helenai/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct-ov-int4 finetune int4 — — — helenai 0 140
HaiZhiYan/CheX-Phi35V finetune — — — apache-2.0 HaiZhiYan 2 0
muhtasham/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct_20240917_025100 finetune — 4.25B M mit muhtasham 0 87
muhtasham/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct_20240916_205629 finetune — 4.25B M mit muhtasham 0 76
helenai/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct-ov-fp16 finetune -fp16 — — — helenai 0 74
Abhisek987/phi35-vision-pdf-markdown adapter — — — — Abhisek987 0 72
solvrays/mdf-form-reader-phi35-vision adapter — 8.29B M apache-2.0 solvrays 0 66
yydxlv/colphi3.5 finetune — — — mit yydxlv 1 0
Vet-Rate-org/Vet-Rate-Vision-Phi finetune — — — mit Vet-Rate-org 0 30
Erland/phi3.5-vision-ai701 adapter — — — mit Erland 0 27
dixieclick/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct-q4f16_1-MLC quantized — — — — dixieclick 0 27
directorcreator/pvisionmain finetune — — — other directorcreator 0 23
rlawlsgus/phi3.5-vision-crowd-adapter adapter — — — — rlawlsgus 0 14
OpenVINO/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct-nf4-ov quantized -nf4 — — mit OpenVINO 0 7
EVA787797/78787879zerty adapter — — — bsl-1.0 EVA787797 0 0
tugtoy/HLPAI finetune — — — apache-2.0 tugtoy 0 0
camilo09/Avancemos finetune — — — gpl-3.0 camilo09 0 0

Repository changelog

14 commits
changed in the last 7 daysOther: 2026-10-24all changes

Repository changelog 14 commits

DateCommitSHA
2025-12-10 Update README.md (#43) 12b77fb
2025-12-10 Upload data_summary_card.md (#42) 87713eb
2024-09-26 fix_rope_scaling (#28) 4a0d683
2024-09-07 Add proper library name (#23) c69b58c
2024-08-30 Fix task tag (#16) c881ad5
2024-08-23 Fix spelling error in README (#10) c68f852
2024-08-20 Fix AutoImageProcessor mapping (#4) ee47981
2024-08-20 Fixing Scores for Gemini 1.5 Flash and GPT-4o (#2) 1c4d695
2024-08-20 Update README.md 0eb7016
2024-08-20 Update README.md bea9545
2024-08-20 fix_import (#1) 64f88b6
2024-08-20 upload model card 7da0ee8
2024-08-19 upload initial files 249c1c2
2024-08-16 initial commit 40a03b9

Articles and coverage

9 pieces

Ranked by source signals (HN, Lobsters, authority domains, official posts) and recency. Summaries are generated from a stored copy of the article text; every sentence cites a span of that text, and nothing is shown that failed the citation check.

Official1

techcommunity.microsoft.comofficialauthorityabout the Phi 3.5 family9,474 words
Microsoft releases the Phi-3.5 family, featuring Phi-3.5-mini with 3.8B parameters and a 128K context length, alongside Phi-3.5-MoE which activates 6.6B parameters across 16 experts totaling 42B parameters. The mini variant shows 25-50% performance gains in specific languages like Arabic and Thai, while the MoE model supports over 20 languages with robust safety measures. Phi-3.5-vision improves single-image benchmarks, boosting MMMU scores from 40.4 to 43.0, though it lacks multi-lingual optimization.written, reviewed, cited

Analysis7

venturebeat.com2024-08-21about the Phi 3.5 familyHN 6 pts · 2 comments
github.com2024-09-02authorityabout the Phi 3.5 familyHN 2 pts · 0 comments3,121 words
RetNPhi is an experimental architecture that transforms Phi-3.5 into a byte-level language model incorporating RetNet-inspired mechanisms. The 578-line implementation, dated Aug 28, 2024, enables the model to process raw byte sequences, allowing for universal file type handling. It supports dual-mode processing for efficient training and inference.written, reviewed, cited
  • The tokenizer defaults to a vocabulary of 256 bytes when no custom file path is provided.
  • The retention mechanism calculates decay factors using logarithmic scales between 1/32 and 1/512.
  • Recurrent mode initializes a cache state with a fixed shape of 32 tokens, 96 heads, and 96 dimensions.
ai.azure.us
openlaboratory.com1,032 words
Microsoft released Phi-3.5 Vision Instruct in August 2024, a multimodal model built on a 4.2-billion-parameter architecture integrating an image encoder, connector, projector, and Phi-3 Mini core. The model uses supervised fine-tuning, direct preference optimization, and reinforcement learning from human feedback to align outputs. It achieves an overall score of 57.0 on the BLINK suite for multi-image and video benchmarks and is distributed under the MIT License. It prioritizes English language use and efficiency in memory-constrained environments for tasks like chart understanding and video summarization.written, reviewed, cited
  • The model training set includes newly created specialized datasets for multi-image and short video understanding.
  • Phi-3.5-MoE activates subsets of its total 42B parameter model to offer high performance at lower active compute.
llm-stats.com277 words
llmreference.com232 words
algo-consult.com2025-11-21about the Phi 3.5 familyHN 1 pts · 0 comments223,753 words
All coverage tracked for this model (9) — append-only, nothing is ever removed

Papers

1 paper

Papers 1

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Sources

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Hub snapshot: 2026-10-25 · HF API: 2026-10-24 21:36 UTC · Providers: 2026-10-24 21:44 UTC · Articles: 2026-10-24 21:45 UTC · Summary: 2026-10-07 15:03 UTC · Last verified 2026-10-25

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