Instructions to use OpenGVLab/Mono-InternVL-2B with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use OpenGVLab/Mono-InternVL-2B with Transformers:

# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="OpenGVLab/Mono-InternVL-2B", trust_remote_code=True)
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)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoModel
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("OpenGVLab/Mono-InternVL-2B", trust_remote_code=True, dtype="auto")

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps

vLLM

How to use OpenGVLab/Mono-InternVL-2B with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "OpenGVLab/Mono-InternVL-2B"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "OpenGVLab/Mono-InternVL-2B",
		"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"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/OpenGVLab/Mono-InternVL-2B

SGLang

How to use OpenGVLab/Mono-InternVL-2B with SGLang:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install SGLang from pip:
pip install sglang
# Start the SGLang server:
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
    --model-path "OpenGVLab/Mono-InternVL-2B" \
    --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": "OpenGVLab/Mono-InternVL-2B",
		"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"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker images

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 "OpenGVLab/Mono-InternVL-2B" \
        --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": "OpenGVLab/Mono-InternVL-2B",
		"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 Runner
How to use OpenGVLab/Mono-InternVL-2B with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/OpenGVLab/Mono-InternVL-2B
```

Mono-InternVL-2B

This repository contains the instruction-tuned Mono-InternVL-2B model, which has 1.8B activated parameters (3B in total). It is built upon internlm2-chat-1_8b.

Please refer to our paper (v1), paper (v1.5), project page and GitHub repository for introduction and usage.

Citation

If you find this project useful in your research, please consider citing:

@article{mono_internvl_v1,
  title={Mono-InternVL: Pushing the Boundaries of Monolithic Multimodal Large Language Models with Endogenous Visual Pre-training},
  author={Luo, Gen and Yang, Xue and Dou, Wenhan and Wang, Zhaokai and Liu, Jiawen and Dai, Jifeng and Qiao, Yu and Zhu, Xizhou},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.08202},
  year={2024}
}


@article{mono_internvl_v1.5,
  title={Mono-InternVL-1.5: Towards Cheaper and Faster Monolithic Multimodal Large Language Models},
  author={Luo, Gen and Dou, Wenhan and Li, Wenhao and Wang, Zhaokai and Yang, Xue and Tian, Changyao and Li, Hao and Wang, Weiyun and Wang, Wenhai and Zhu, Xizhou and Qiao, Yu and Dai, Jifeng},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.12566},
  year={2025}
}