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PRT checkpoints and comparison baselines for Molmo2 and Qwen3-VL. โข 14 items โข Updated
How to use haoquan03/PixelBench-Qwen3-VL-4B-FV with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline
pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="haoquan03/PixelBench-Qwen3-VL-4B-FV")
messages = [
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"},
{"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"}
]
},
]
pipe(text=messages) # pip install -U transformers accelerate
# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForMultimodalLM
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("haoquan03/PixelBench-Qwen3-VL-4B-FV")
model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("haoquan03/PixelBench-Qwen3-VL-4B-FV", device_map="auto")
messages = [
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"},
{"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"}
]
},
]
inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(
messages,
add_generation_prompt=True,
tokenize=True,
return_dict=True,
return_tensors="pt",
).to(model.device)
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=256)
print(processor.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:]))How to use haoquan03/PixelBench-Qwen3-VL-4B-FV with vLLM:
# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "haoquan03/PixelBench-Qwen3-VL-4B-FV"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{
"model": "haoquan03/PixelBench-Qwen3-VL-4B-FV",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{
"type": "text",
"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
},
{
"type": "image_url",
"image_url": {
"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
}
}
]
}
]
}'docker model run hf.co/haoquan03/PixelBench-Qwen3-VL-4B-FV
How to use haoquan03/PixelBench-Qwen3-VL-4B-FV with SGLang:
# Install SGLang from pip:
pip install sglang
# Start the SGLang server:
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
--model-path "haoquan03/PixelBench-Qwen3-VL-4B-FV" \
--host 0.0.0.0 \
--port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{
"model": "haoquan03/PixelBench-Qwen3-VL-4B-FV",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{
"type": "text",
"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
},
{
"type": "image_url",
"image_url": {
"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
}
}
]
}
]
}'docker run --gpus all \
--shm-size 32g \
-p 30000:30000 \
-v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
--env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \
--ipc=host \
lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
--model-path "haoquan03/PixelBench-Qwen3-VL-4B-FV" \
--host 0.0.0.0 \
--port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{
"model": "haoquan03/PixelBench-Qwen3-VL-4B-FV",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{
"type": "text",
"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
},
{
"type": "image_url",
"image_url": {
"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
}
}
]
}
]
}'How to use haoquan03/PixelBench-Qwen3-VL-4B-FV with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/haoquan03/PixelBench-Qwen3-VL-4B-FV
Qwen3-VL-4B FV, used in the paper's Qwen additive comparison. Fine-tuned from Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct on FineVision instructions. All model parameters were trained.
Part of Can LLMs Understand and Generate Images Pixel by Pixel? Project ยท Code and evaluation
Install a CUDA-compatible PyTorch build, then:
pip install transformers==5.12.1 accelerate pillow torchvision
import torch
from PIL import Image
from transformers import AutoModelForImageTextToText, AutoProcessor
model_id = "haoquan03/PixelBench-Qwen3-VL-4B-FV"
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained(
model_id, dtype="auto", device_map="auto", attn_implementation="sdpa"
).eval()
messages = [{"role": "user", "content": [
{"type": "image", "image": Image.open("image.jpg").convert("RGB")},
{"type": "text", "text": "Describe this image."},
]}]
inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(
messages, tokenize=True, add_generation_prompt=True,
return_dict=True, return_tensors="pt",
).to(model.device)
with torch.inference_mode(), torch.autocast("cuda", dtype=torch.bfloat16):
output = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=256, do_sample=False, use_cache=True)
print(processor.decode(output[0, inputs.input_ids.shape[1]:], skip_special_tokens=True))
Training settings and the evaluation protocol are available in the code repository.
@article{zhang2026pixelbench,
title={Can {LLMs} Understand and Generate Images Pixel by Pixel?},
author={Haoquan Zhang and Feiyang Liu and Juanxi Tian and Wanhua Li and Haodong Duan and Weiyang Liu},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:TBA},
year={2026},
url={https://haoquanzhang.github.io/pixelbench/}
}