Idefics2

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• Released 15 April 2024 ● Primary source[1]Published April 15, 2024

• Status AvailableWeights of the base, instruct and chatty checkpoints are downloadable from the HuggingFaceM4 organisation on the Hub. Hugging Face publishes no deprecation page for its models. ● Primary source[2]Hub repository HuggingFaceM4/idefics2-8b, Files and versions

• Successor of IDEFICS ● Primary source[1]second paragraph; Improvements over Idefics1 [2]first paragraph
• Derived from (other) Mistral 7B (Mistral AI) ● Primary source[1]language backbone

• Change · Size A single 8B size instead of 9B and 80B; Hugging Face calls it 10x smaller than the 80B model.Compared with IDEFICS ● Primary source[1]
• Change · Architecture Replaces gated cross-attention with Perceiver pooling and an MLP projection, and uses Mistral-7B-v0.1 and SigLIP so400m as backbones.Compared with IDEFICS ● Primary source[1]
• Change · Training data Adds OCR, document and image-to-code training data, plus The Cauldron, a new instruction dataset compiled from 50 curated datasets.Compared with IDEFICS ● Primary source[1]
• Change · Licensing Released under Apache 2.0; Hugging Face lists the open licence as one of the improvements over Idefics1.Compared with IDEFICS ● Primary source[1]License

• Input text, image ● Primary source[1]first paragraph [2]Model Summary, Model type
• Output textThe model card says the models do not generate images. ● Primary source[1]first paragraph [2]first paragraph; Uses
• Open weights YesApache 2.0 licence. ● Primary source[1]License [2]first paragraph; License
• Parameters 8B ● Primary source[1]second paragraph [3]abstract
• Access Open-weights download ● Primary source[1]Getting Started with Idefics2

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