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VILA1.5-13B

Training compute
2.3×10²¹ FLOP
Parameters
13.5B
Published
May 3, 2024

VILA1.5-13B is an AI model developed by NVIDIA and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (United States), first published in May 2024. It works in the multimodal, language, vision and video domain, on tasks such as chat, visual question answering, image captioning and 2 more.

Training it took an estimated 2.3×10²¹ FLOP of compute. The model has 13,493,916,736 parameters. It was trained on roughly 32.4B datapoints. Training ran on 128 NVIDIA A100.

Access: Open weights (non-commercial). Its weights are openly available. It is built on top of SigLIP 400M,Vicuna-13B-v1.5. The reference paper has 827 citations. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as confident.

Full record
Organization
NVIDIA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Country of organization
United States
Domain
Multimodal, Language, Vision, Video
Task
Chat, Visual question answering, Image captioning, Language modeling/generation, Question answering
Training compute
2.3×10²¹ FLOP
Parameters
13,493,916,736
Dataset size
32.4B
Training hardware
NVIDIA A100
Chips used
128
Training power draw
101.2 kW
Numerical format
BF16
Model accessibility
Open weights (non-commercial)
Open weights
Yes
Base model
SigLIP 400M, Vicuna-13B-v1.5
Citations
827
Epoch confidence
Confident
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