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+license: apache-2.0
+datasets:
+- HuggingFaceFW/fineweb
+- HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-2
+language:
+- en
+- uk
+- zh
+- hi
+- da
+- tr
+- fi
+- es
+- ko
+- ar
+- th
+- el
+- bn
+- vi
+- he
+- fa
+tags:
+- pixel
+- mae
+- vit
+- tokenization-free
+---
+
+# MPIXEL
+
+MPIXEL, introduced in [Scaling Multilingual Pretraining of Pixel Language Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.29681), is a family of multilingual pixel language models, which operate on visually rendered text. Our main models, `mpixel-base` (86M parameters) and `mpixel-large` (307M parameters), are pretrained on sixteen languages that span ten writing systems. MPIXEL uses adaptive rendering: it renders text as grapheme bigrams by default, Chinese, Japanese and Korean text one character per patch, and Arabic and Hebrew text word by word.
+
+## Basic usage
+To use our models, please first install our [`mpixel` package](https://github.com/ilkerkesen/mpixel). Here is an example of loading a pretrained model and encoding input text:
+
+```python
+from transformers import AutoModel
+import mpixel.models.auto_register  # registers MPIXEL with the Auto classes
+from mpixel.processing import MPIXELProcessor
+
+processor = MPIXELProcessor.from_pretrained("Team-PIXEL/mpixel-base")
+model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("Team-PIXEL/mpixel-base")
+
+inputs = processor(["Hello world!", "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."])
+outputs = model(**inputs)
+
+print(outputs.last_hidden_state.shape)  # torch.Size([2, 513, 768])
+```
+
+For further information, please take a look at our repository: [https://github.com/ilkerkesen/mpixel](https://github.com/ilkerkesen/mpixel).
+
+## Citation
+
+If you find MPIXEL beneficial for your research, please cite it,
+
+```
+@misc{kesen2026scalingmultilingualpretrainingpixel,
+      title={Scaling Multilingual Pretraining of Pixel Language Models}, 
+      author={Ilker Kesen and Jenny Kunz and Kasra Malihi and Desmond Elliott},
+      year={2026},
+      eprint={2610.29681},
+      archivePrefix={arXiv},
+      primaryClass={cs.CL},
+      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.29681}, 
+}
+```