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NativeCodec-4B-FixedRatio

4B video MLLM aligned with NativeCodec for a constant P-frame suffix ratio.

This is the fixed-ratio variant of NativeCodec-4B. The language model is fine-tuned to consume visual tokens from the NativeCodec incremental encoder, and each P frame keeps a fixed suffix fraction of its causal representation. At inference the recommended setting is fixed_p_ratio = 1/16; the learned length predictor is not used, so this variant has no dependency on the Stage 2 prediction heads. Use it together with the incremental encoder and code in Tennineee/NativeCodec.

Companion asset Repository
Code, incremental encoder, prediction heads Tennineee/NativeCodec
Predicted-length aligner for the same codec Tennineee/NativeCodec-4B-PredLen
BallBench dataset Tennineee/NativeCodec-BallBench

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The incremental encoder required at inference (weights/inc_enc_stage1_step18750.pt) lives in the code repository. The complete card of Tennineee/NativeCodec also covers access requests, mirror downloads and fine-grained token settings.

Files

Every file sits at the repository root, so the directory can be passed to from_pretrained directly.

File Size (bytes) Content
model.safetensors 9,319,821,272 Qwen3.5-4B language model, aligned to NativeCodec tokens; the adapter is merged into the base weights (no separate LoRA checkpoint)
config.json 3,161 Qwen3.5-4B model config (architecture Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration)
preprocessor_config.json 390 image processor config, inherited from the base model
video_preprocessor_config.json 385 video processor config, inherited from the base model
tokenizer.json 12,807,982 tokenizer (vocabulary 248,320)
tokenizer_config.json 16,710 tokenizer settings, including the chat template reference
vocab.json 6,722,759 vocabulary
merges.txt 3,353,259 BPE merges
chat_template.jinja 7,756 chat template
LICENSE-APACHE, NOTICE.md, README.md license, attribution and this card

The weights are a complete Qwen3.5-4B-sized model: about 4.66 B parameters in bfloat16 (the file size divided by two bytes), including the frozen visual tower inherited from the base model. NativeCodec does not route video through that visual tower; the codec front-end adds its own visual tokens to the language model input.

Loading

The checkpoint follows the Hugging Face Qwen3.5 layout, so the standard multimodal loader works once your environment provides Qwen3.5 support (the upstream config records transformers_version: 4.57.0.dev0):

from transformers import AutoModelForImageTextToText, AutoTokenizer

tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Tennineee/NativeCodec-4B-FixedRatio")
model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained(
    "Tennineee/NativeCodec-4B-FixedRatio",
    torch_dtype="bfloat16",
    attn_implementation="flash_attention_2",
)

Loading this directory with vanilla transformers gives the aligned multimodal language model itself. Video reasoning through NativeCodec additionally needs the incremental encoder and the codec front-end; this variant does not need a Stage 2 length predictor:

import sys
sys.path.insert(0, "NativeCodec/stage3_llm_sft")
from modeling_recodec_qwen35 import ReCodecQwen35ForConditionalGeneration

model = ReCodecQwen35ForConditionalGeneration(
    model_name_or_path="NativeCodec-4B-FixedRatio",
    recodec_root="NativeCodec/stage3_llm_sft/recodec",
    phase1_ckpt="NativeCodec/weights/inc_enc_stage1_step18750.pt",
    phase2_ckpt=None,
    video_pad_token_id=video_pad_id,   # from the code repository's Stage 3 config
    max_gop_frames=64,
    max_frames=12288,
    max_video_tokens=64000,
    fixed_p_ratio=1 / 16,              # constant suffix ratio
    lora_cfg=None,                     # adapter already merged
)

A complete runnable path, including frame sampling and prompt assembly, is provided by stage3_llm_sft/demo_recodec_inference.py in the code repository; set fixed_p_ratio=1/16 in the codec config there.

Use, budget and results

With the constant 1/16 suffix ratio, NativeCodec-4B reaches 26.1% accuracy on BallBench at 16 fps (13.9% is random, 12.2% for the Qwen3.5-4B base) and 56.4 mIoU on TimeLens-Bench with a 64k visual-token budget. Every subset of TimeLens-Bench is better than every open-source baseline in the comparison: 54.5 action, 53.8 change and 67.7 query mIoU. MomentSeeker reaches 25.0 mIoU. The predicted-length variant and the token-budget ablations are documented in the code repository's model card.

The visual-token budget is configured by the codec front-end, not by these weights; max_video_tokens in your config decides how many tokens the model sees.

License and attribution

The fine-tuned weights are distributed under the Apache License, Version 2.0, following the license of Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B-Base. The full license text is in LICENSE-APACHE; NOTICE.md records the upstream attribution and the changes made here. The code in Tennineee/NativeCodec is released under the MIT License.

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