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---
license: apache-2.0
language:
- en
- zh
library_name: transformers
pipeline_tag: video-text-to-text
base_model: OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-VL-Instruct-0708
tags:
- MOSS-VL
- image-understanding
- video-understanding
- FP8
- compressed-tensors
- quantized
- SGLang
- custom_code
---

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  <img src="assets/logo.png" width="300" alt="MOSS-VL"/>
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  English | <a href="https://huggingface.co/OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-VL-Instruct-0708-FP8/blob/main/README_zh.md">中文</a>
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# MOSS-VL-Instruct-0708 FP8 Dynamic + Transformers KV8

MOSS-VL is an open vision-language model family from OpenMOSS, supporting image understanding, long-video understanding, and realtime streaming interaction. This repository provides the FP8-quantized checkpoint of MOSS-VL-Instruct-0708.

**Technical Report**: [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.15045](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.15045)

This is the 24 GiB quantized release of MOSS-VL-Instruct-0708. The same
checkpoint directory is supported by both the standard Transformers inference
path and the native SGLang MOSS-VL backend.

## Quantization profile

| Component | Format |
| --- | --- |
| Most language layers | FP8 weights + per-token dynamic FP8 input activations |
| Cross-attention, vision modules and `lm_head` | BF16 |
| Transformers KV cache | HQQ INT8 |
| SGLang KV cache | Native SGLang BF16 cache |

The FP8 weights are shared across both engines. Transformers reads the HQQ KV8
configuration from `generation_config.json`; SGLang loads the same weights with
`model_impl=sglang` and uses its own cache implementation.

## Quantization benchmark

Across the selected benchmarks, the quantized models remain close to their
non-quantized BF16 counterparts, showing that overall model quality is largely
preserved after quantization.

<p align="center">
  <img src="assets/mossvl_quantization_benchmark_comparison_en_4k.png" alt="MOSS-VL quantization benchmark comparison" width="100%"/>
</p>

## Hardware requirements

The model is designed to run with the Transformers inference path on a single
NVIDIA GPU with 24 GB of VRAM. SGLang memory requirements depend on its server
configuration and KV cache allocation.

## Transformers environment

### Installation

Start from the standard MOSS-VL release environment, then install the FP8
checkpoint loader and HQQ cache backend:

```bash
git clone https://github.com/OpenMOSS/MOSS-VL.git
cd MOSS-VL

conda create -n moss_vl_quant python=3.12 pip -y
conda activate moss_vl_quant
pip install -i https://pypi.org/simple --no-build-isolation -r requirements.txt
pip install -i https://pypi.org/simple \
  compressed-tensors==0.14.0 \
  hqq==0.2.8.post1
python -m pip check
```

Core versions used by the standard Transformers path:

| Package | Version |
| --- | --- |
| Python | 3.12 |
| PyTorch | 2.8.0 + CUDA 12.8 |
| Transformers | 4.57.1 |
| Accelerate | 1.12.0 |
| FlashAttention | 2.8.1 |
| compressed-tensors checkpoint format | 0.14.0 |
| HQQ | 0.2.8.post1 |

Video decoding also requires FFmpeg to be available in `PATH`.

### Load the model

```python
import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoProcessor

checkpoint = "/path/to/MOSS-VL-0708-Instruct-FP8-Dynamic-KV8-HQQ"

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(
    checkpoint,
    trust_remote_code=True,
    frame_extract_num_threads=1,
)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    checkpoint,
    trust_remote_code=True,
    device_map="auto",
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
    attn_implementation="flash_attention_2",
)
model.eval()
```

`generation_config.json` enables HQQ KV8 automatically. Keep that file beside
the checkpoint and do not pass a conflicting cache configuration.

### Image inference

```python
text = model.offline_image_generate(
    processor,
    prompt="Describe this image.",
    image="data/example_image.jpg",
    shortest_edge=4096,
    longest_edge=16777216,
    multi_image_max_pixels=201326592,
    patch_size=16,
    temporal_patch_size=1,
    merge_size=2,
    image_mean=[0.5, 0.5, 0.5],
    image_std=[0.5, 0.5, 0.5],
    max_new_tokens=256,
    temperature=1.0,
    top_k=50,
    top_p=1.0,
    repetition_penalty=1.0,
    do_sample=False,
    vision_chunked_length=64,
)
print(text)
```

### Video inference

```python
text = model.offline_video_generate(
    processor,
    prompt="Describe this video.",
    video="data/example_video.mp4",
    shortest_edge=4096,
    longest_edge=16777216,
    video_max_pixels=201326592,
    patch_size=16,
    temporal_patch_size=1,
    merge_size=2,
    video_fps=1.0,
    min_frames=1,
    max_frames=256,
    num_extract_threads=4,
    image_mean=[0.5, 0.5, 0.5],
    image_std=[0.5, 0.5, 0.5],
    max_new_tokens=256,
    temperature=1.0,
    top_k=50,
    top_p=1.0,
    repetition_penalty=1.0,
    do_sample=False,
    vision_chunked_length=64,
)
print(text)
```

### Repository inference runner

The standard repository runner accepts JSON/JSONL queries with image or video
content and loads this directory directly:

```bash
python inference/run_inference.py \
  --checkpoint /path/to/MOSS-VL-0708-Instruct-FP8-Dynamic-KV8-HQQ \
  --mode offline \
  --input inference/video_queries.json \
  --output video_results.json
```

## SGLang environment

Use a separate environment for SGLang. The native backend in the
`mossvl_sglang` release directory pins:

| Package | Version |
| --- | --- |
| Python | 3.12.8 |
| SGLang | 0.5.11 |
| sglang-kernel | 0.4.2 |
| PyTorch | 2.11.0 + CUDA 13.0 |
| Transformers | 5.6.0 |
| compressed-tensors | 0.17.1 |

Create the environment from its complete lock file:

```bash
cd /path/to/mossvl_sglang
env -u INDEX_URL -u PIP_INDEX_URL conda create -y -n mossvl-sglang-0511 \
  --override-channels \
  -c https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/anaconda/pkgs/main \
  python=3.12.8 pip=24.2
conda activate mossvl-sglang-0511
env -u INDEX_URL -u PIP_INDEX_URL python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
python -m pip check
```

Start the OpenAI-compatible service with the quantized directory as the model
path:

```bash
conda activate mossvl-sglang-0511
cd /path/to/mossvl_sglang
GPU_IDS=0 TP_SIZE=1 MEM_FRACTION_STATIC=0.35 \
  ./start_sglang_moss_vl.sh \
  --model-path /path/to/MOSS-VL-0708-Instruct-FP8-Dynamic-KV8-HQQ
```

The service listens on `http://127.0.0.1:30000` by default. Keep
`MODEL_IMPL=sglang`; do not force the Transformers remote implementation.
SGLang intentionally uses its native BF16 KV cache rather than the HQQ cache in
`generation_config.json`.

## Configuration files

- `config.json`: model and FP8 weight/activation configuration.
- `generation_config.json`: Transformers HQQ KV8 configuration.
- `modeling_moss_vl.py`: checkpoint-local cross-attention/QuantizedCache code.

## Citation

```bibtex
@misc{mossvl,
  title         = {MOSS-VL Technical Report},
  author        = {Wang, Pengyu and Tan, Chenkun and Zhou, Shaojun and Zhou, Qirui and Chen, Yanxin and He, Xingyang and Zeng, Huazheng and Cheng, Jijun and Wang, Chenghao and Qian, Xiaomeng and Wang, Pengfei and Huang, Zhan and Gao, Shanqing and Huang, Wei and Cao, Longjun and Ran, Wu and Liu, Jie and Zhu, Changtai and Wang, Hongkai and Tian, Yixian and Liu, Chenghao and Ye, Zhen and Wang, Xinghao and Jiang, Botian and Feng, Guoguo and Fei, Zhaoye and Li, Ruixiao and Chen, Mingshu and Gao, Yang and Cheng, Qinyuan and Li, Shimin and Qiu, Xipeng},
  year          = {2026},
  eprint        = {2608.15045},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.CV},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.15045}
}

@misc{mossvideopreview,
  title         = {{MOSS-Video-Preview: Toward Real-Time Video Understanding via Cross-Attention}},
  author        = {Pengyu Wang and Chenkun Tan and Shaojun Zhou and Wei Huang and Qirui Zhou and Zhan Huang and Zhen Ye and Jijun Cheng and Xiaomeng Qian and Yanxin Chen and Xingyang He and Huazheng Zeng and Chenghao Wang and Pengfei Wang and Hongkai Wang and Shanqing Gao and Yixian Tian and Chenghao Liu and Xinghao Wang and Botian Jiang and Xipeng Qiu},
  year          = {2026},
  eprint        = {2606.07639},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.CV},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.07639}
}
```