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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

ItemValue
ArchitectureMobileVLM (CLIP visual encoder + LDP projector + MobileLLaMA LLM)
Language modelMobileLLaMA 1.4B
Distillation lossesCosine-KD (logit alignment) + Beta-KD instance-level uncertainty loss
Training stepcheckpoint-18000
Total params~1.7B
Precisionfp16

Evaluation

Evaluated on six standard multimodal benchmarks (no beam search, greedy decoding to match the chat-demo behavior).

MethodLLMMME<sup>P</sup>MME<sup>A</sup>GQAVQA<sup>T</sup>POPEMMB<sup>dev</sup>SQA<sup>I</sup>Avg.
Cosine-KD baselineMobileLLaMA 1.4B1308.465.459.952.284.657.161.363.4
+ Beta-KD (Task)MobileLLaMA 1.4B1352.067.660.853.985.459.161.264.7
+ Beta-KD (Instance) (this model)MobileLLaMA 1.4B1350.367.561.254.286.060.262.965.3

Usage

python
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 weights
  • config.json, generation_config.json
  • tokenizer.model, tokenizer_config.json, special_tokens_map.json

DeepSpeed optimizer / RNG / trainer states are intentionally not uploaded.

Citation

bibtex
@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.