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| library_name: transformers |
| pipeline_tag: image-text-to-text |
| base_model: Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct |
| tags: |
| - remote-sensing |
| - earth-observation |
| - geospatial |
| - qwen2_5_vl |
| - grpo |
| --- |
| |
| # GeoVLM-R1 |
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| > **Disclaimer** |
| > |
| > THIS MODEL IS PROVIDED “AS IS,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR THEIR AFFILIATES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING FROM ACCESS TO OR USE OF THIS MODEL. |
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| These models are released **without a license**. They are not open-source software. |
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| Model weights for |
| [GeoVLM-R1: Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Improved Remote Sensing Reasoning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25026). |
| Each folder is a separate Qwen2.5-VL-3B checkpoint trained for one Earth-observation task. |
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| | Model | Task | Benchmarks | |
| |-------|------|------------| |
| | [`GeoVLM_R1_Classification`](GeoVLM_R1_Classification) | Scene classification | AID, UCMerced, WHU-RS19, BigEarthNet, fMoW | |
| | [`GeoVLM_R1_VQA`](GeoVLM_R1_VQA) | Visual question answering | RSVQA-LR, RSVQA-HRBEN | |
| | [`GeoVLM_R1_Image_caption`](GeoVLM_R1_Image_caption) | Image captioning | NWPU-Captions, RSICD, RSITMD | |
| | [`GeoVLM_R1_Region_Captioning`](GeoVLM_R1_Region_Captioning) | Region captioning | GeoChat region captioning, NWPU VHR-10 | |
| | [`GeoVLM_R1_grounding`](GeoVLM_R1_grounding) | Visual grounding (grounding description) | NWPU VHR-10 grounding | |
| | [`GeoVLM_R1_Refer`](GeoVLM_R1_Refer) | Referred object detection | GeoChat referring detection, NWPU VHR-10 | |
| | [`GeoVLM_R1_CD_Caption`](GeoVLM_R1_CD_Caption) | Change-detection captioning | LEVIR-CC, Dubai-CC, MUDS, SYSU-CC | |
| | [`GeoVLM_R1_xBD_object_Detection`](GeoVLM_R1_xBD_object_Detection) | xBD object detection | xBD object detection | |
| | [`GeoVLM_R1_xBD_refer_object_detection`](GeoVLM_R1_xBD_refer_object_detection) | xBD referred object detection | xBD referred object detection | |
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| See each folder's `README.md` for usage. Code for training, inference and evaluation is in the |
| [GeoVLM-R1 Toolkit](https://github.com/IBM/GeoVLM-R1-Toolkit). |
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| ## Citation |
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| ```bibtex |
| @article{fiaz2025geovlmr1, |
| title = {GeoVLM-R1: Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Improved Remote Sensing Reasoning}, |
| author = {Fiaz, Mustansar and Debary, Hiyam and Fraccaro, Paolo and Paudel, Danda and |
| Van Gool, Luc and Khan, Fahad and Khan, Salman}, |
| journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.25026}, |
| year = {2025} |
| } |
| ``` |
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| ## Contact |
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| Mustansar Fiaz <mustansar.fiaz@ibm.com> |
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