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DeepSeek-VL2

DeepSeek-VL2: Mixture-of-Experts Vision-Language Models for Advanced Multimodal Understanding

Project last updated:02/26/25

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Why we included this project

DeepSeek-VL2 is an open family of vision-language models built around a mixture-of-experts design, so the 1.0B, 2.8B, and 4.5B variants only activate a modest share of their parameters on each request. That keeps the compute bill closer to a small model while still covering visual question answering, OCR, and object localization, which matters for teams that want multimodal capability without paying for a dense frontier model. The repo has a straightforward Hugging Face integration and a short Python path: load a checkpoint, pass it one or several images, and get back text plus bounding boxes for grounding tasks. It is a practical pick for document understanding, visual search, or image captioning when you want a model you can run and fine-tune yourself.

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