---
license: apache-2.0
language:
- en
base_model:
- openai/clip-vit-large-patch14-336
- Qwen/Qwen2-7B
pipeline_tag: image-text-to-text
tags:
  - multimodal
  - olmo
  - molmo
  - pixmo
---

<img src="molmo_logo.png" alt="Logo for the Molmo Project" style="width: auto; height: 50px;">

# 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](https://huggingface.co/collections/allenai/molmo-66f379e6fe3b8ef090a8ca19).
**Learn more** about the Molmo family [in our announcement blog post](https://molmo.allenai.org/blog).

Molmo 7B-D is based on [Qwen2-7B](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2-7B) and uses [OpenAI CLIP](https://huggingface.co/openai/clip-vit-large-patch14-336) 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**](https://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**](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdML1MhNNBDsCHpgWG65Oydg2SjZzVasyqlP08nBrWjZp_c7A/viewform) to be the first to know when artifacts are released.



## Quick Start

To run Molmo, first install dependencies:

```bash
# uninstall all tensorflow packages
pip list --format=freeze | grep '^tensorflow' | cut -d= -f1 | xargs -n1 pip uninstall -y

# install CPU-only version of tensorflow; used for image preprocessing
pip install einops tensorflow-cpu torchvision
```

Then, follow these steps:

```python
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 ...
```

## 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).*

## 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](https://allenai.org/responsible-use).