jsun39/Cosine-Beta-KD-Instance
Cosine-Beta-KD-Instance
A 1.7B multimodal LLM checkpoint distilled with Cosine-KD + Beta-KD (Instance-level uncertainty weighting), built on top of MobileVLM with `MobileLLaMA-1.4B-Chat` as the language backbone.
This checkpoint corresponds to the `Beta-KD (Instance)` row of the model zoo in Beta-KD: Uncertainty-Aware Knowledge Distillation for Multimodal Large Language Models.
Model Details
Evaluation
Evaluated on six standard multimodal benchmarks (no beam search, greedy decoding to match the chat-demo behavior).
Usage
import torch
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
repo_id = "jsun39/Cosine-Beta-KD-Instance"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo_id, trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
repo_id,
torch_dtype=torch.float16,
trust_remote_code=True,
).cuda()For full inference (image + text), please follow the inference example in the Beta-KD repo — the visual encoder / projector loading, image preprocessing, and chat template are described there.
Files
This repo contains only the files needed for inference:
pytorch_model.bin— fp16 weightsconfig.json,generation_config.jsontokenizer.model,tokenizer_config.json,special_tokens_map.json
DeepSpeed optimizer / RNG / trainer states are intentionally not uploaded.
Citation
@article{sun2026betakd,
title = {Beta-KD: Uncertainty-Aware Knowledge Distillation for Multimodal
Large Language Models},
author = {Sun, Jingchen and Han, Shaobo and Patel, Deep and Kohno, Wataru and Jin, Can and Chen, Changyou},
journal = {CVPR},
year = {2026}
}License
Released under the Apache-2.0 license, inheriting from MobileVLM and MobileLLaMA. The visual encoder and any third-party data follow their original licenses.
