Image-Text-to-Text
Transformers
Safetensors
qwen3_vl
qwen3-vl
viss
streaming-video
visual-question-answering
causal-video
conversational
Instructions to use mis2/ViSS-8B with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use mis2/ViSS-8B with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="mis2/ViSS-8B") messages = [ { "role": "user", "content": [ {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"}, {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"} ] }, ] pipe(text=messages)# pip install -U transformers accelerate # Load model directly from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForMultimodalLM processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("mis2/ViSS-8B") model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("mis2/ViSS-8B", device_map="auto") messages = [ { "role": "user", "content": [ {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"}, {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"} ] }, ] inputs = processor.apply_chat_template( messages, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=True, return_dict=True, return_tensors="pt", ).to(model.device) outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=256) print(processor.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:])) - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- vLLM
How to use mis2/ViSS-8B with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "mis2/ViSS-8B" # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "mis2/ViSS-8B", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] }'Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/mis2/ViSS-8B
- SGLang
How to use mis2/ViSS-8B with SGLang:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install SGLang from pip: pip install sglang # Start the SGLang server: python3 -m sglang.launch_server \ --model-path "mis2/ViSS-8B" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "mis2/ViSS-8B", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] }'Use Docker images
docker run --gpus all \ --shm-size 32g \ -p 30000:30000 \ -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \ --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \ --ipc=host \ lmsysorg/sglang:latest \ python3 -m sglang.launch_server \ --model-path "mis2/ViSS-8B" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "mis2/ViSS-8B", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] }' - Docker Model Runner
How to use mis2/ViSS-8B with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/mis2/ViSS-8B
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The controller deliberately has no task, benchmark, answer-space, or protocol
input. It receives a single chronological stream of continuous frame signals,
reserves a recent high-fidelity window, and spends the remaining fixed model
budget on high-value historical transitions. Query compatibility may enter as
one continuous score, but it cannot select a different policy or frame budget.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import hashlib
import json
import math
from dataclasses import asdict, dataclass
from typing import Any, Sequence
POLICY_ID = "unified_causal_temporal_budget_v0"
TRANSITION_PAIR_POLICY_ID = "unified_causal_transition_pair_budget_v0"
class TemporalBudgetError(ValueError):
"""Raised when the controller input violates its causal public contract."""
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class TemporalBudgetConfig:
max_model_frames: int = 20
recent_frames: int = 4
novelty_weight: float = 0.20
curvature_weight: float = 0.45
query_weight: float = 0.25
recency_weight: float = 0.10
def validate(self) -> None:
if self.max_model_frames <= 0:
raise TemporalBudgetError("max_model_frames must be positive")
if self.recent_frames <= 0:
raise TemporalBudgetError("recent_frames must be positive")
if self.recent_frames > self.max_model_frames:
raise TemporalBudgetError("recent window exceeds model frame budget")
weights = (
self.novelty_weight,
self.curvature_weight,
self.query_weight,
self.recency_weight,
)
if any(not math.isfinite(value) or value < 0 for value in weights):
raise TemporalBudgetError("controller weights must be finite and non-negative")
if sum(weights) <= 0:
raise TemporalBudgetError("at least one controller weight must be positive")
@property
def sha256(self) -> str:
payload = json.dumps(
{"policy_id": POLICY_ID, **asdict(self)},
sort_keys=True,
separators=(",", ":"),
)
return hashlib.sha256(payload.encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class FrameSignal:
frame_index: int
timestamp: float
novelty: float
curvature: float
query_relevance: float = 0.0
def validate(self) -> None:
if self.frame_index < 0:
raise TemporalBudgetError("frame index must be non-negative")
values = (
self.timestamp,
self.novelty,
self.curvature,
self.query_relevance,
)
if any(not math.isfinite(value) for value in values):
raise TemporalBudgetError("frame signals must be finite")
def _rank_normalize(values: Sequence[float]) -> list[float]:
"""Average-tie rank normalization in [0, 1], invariant to score scale."""
if not values:
return []
if len(values) == 1:
return [0.0]
order = sorted(range(len(values)), key=lambda index: (values[index], index))
ranks = [0.0] * len(values)
offset = 0
while offset < len(order):
end = offset + 1
while end < len(order) and values[order[end]] == values[order[offset]]:
end += 1
average = (offset + end - 1) / 2.0
normalized = average / (len(order) - 1)
for position in range(offset, end):
ranks[order[position]] = normalized
offset = end
return ranks
def _cosine_distance(left: Sequence[float], right: Sequence[float]) -> float:
if len(left) != len(right) or not left:
raise TemporalBudgetError("feature vectors must have the same non-zero width")
dot = sum(a * b for a, b in zip(left, right, strict=True))
left_norm = math.sqrt(sum(value * value for value in left))
right_norm = math.sqrt(sum(value * value for value in right))
if left_norm <= 1e-12 or right_norm <= 1e-12:
return 0.0
cosine = max(-1.0, min(1.0, dot / (left_norm * right_norm)))
return 1.0 - cosine
def trajectory_change_scores(
features: Sequence[Sequence[float]],
) -> tuple[list[float], list[float]]:
"""Compute first-order novelty and second-order trajectory curvature.
Curvature is the cosine distance between consecutive displacement vectors,
matching the scale-free geometric signal used by curvature-aware streaming
memory without committing to a particular visual feature backend.
"""
if not features:
return [], []
width = len(features[0])
if width <= 0 or any(len(feature) != width for feature in features):
raise TemporalBudgetError("features must form a non-empty rectangular matrix")
vectors = [[float(value) for value in feature] for feature in features]
if any(not math.isfinite(value) for row in vectors for value in row):
raise TemporalBudgetError("features must be finite")
novelty = [0.0]
novelty.extend(
_cosine_distance(vectors[index - 1], vectors[index])
for index in range(1, len(vectors))
)
curvature = [0.0] * len(vectors)
for index in range(1, len(vectors) - 1):
previous_delta = [
current - previous
for previous, current in zip(
vectors[index - 1], vectors[index], strict=True
)
]
next_delta = [
future - current
for current, future in zip(
vectors[index], vectors[index + 1], strict=True
)
]
curvature[index] = _cosine_distance(previous_delta, next_delta)
return novelty, curvature
def build_frame_signals(
*,
frame_indices: Sequence[int],
timestamps: Sequence[float],
features: Sequence[Sequence[float]],
query_relevance: Sequence[float] | None = None,
) -> list[FrameSignal]:
if not (len(frame_indices) == len(timestamps) == len(features)):
raise TemporalBudgetError("indices, timestamps, and features must align")
if query_relevance is None:
query_relevance = [0.0] * len(frame_indices)
if len(query_relevance) != len(frame_indices):
raise TemporalBudgetError("query relevance must align with frames")
novelty, curvature = trajectory_change_scores(features)
return [
FrameSignal(
frame_index=int(index),
timestamp=float(timestamp),
novelty=float(novelty_value),
curvature=float(curvature_value),
query_relevance=float(relevance),
)
for index, timestamp, novelty_value, curvature_value, relevance in zip(
frame_indices,
timestamps,
novelty,
curvature,
query_relevance,
strict=True,
)
]
def select_temporal_budget(
signals: Sequence[FrameSignal],
*,
causal_frontier: float,
config: TemporalBudgetConfig = TemporalBudgetConfig(),
) -> dict[str, Any]:
"""Select one deterministic, chronologically returned causal frame set."""
config.validate()
if not math.isfinite(causal_frontier) or causal_frontier < 0:
raise TemporalBudgetError("causal frontier must be finite and non-negative")
ordered = sorted(signals, key=lambda item: (item.timestamp, item.frame_index))
if not ordered:
raise TemporalBudgetError("temporal budget requires at least one frame")
for signal in ordered:
signal.validate()
if signal.timestamp > causal_frontier + 1e-3:
raise TemporalBudgetError("candidate frame crosses the causal frontier")
indices = [signal.frame_index for signal in ordered]
if len(indices) != len(set(indices)):
raise TemporalBudgetError("candidate frame indices must be unique")
if any(
right.timestamp + 1e-9 < left.timestamp
for left, right in zip(ordered, ordered[1:])
):
raise TemporalBudgetError("candidate timestamps must be chronological")
novelty = _rank_normalize([signal.novelty for signal in ordered])
curvature = _rank_normalize([signal.curvature for signal in ordered])
relevance = _rank_normalize([signal.query_relevance for signal in ordered])
recency = _rank_normalize([signal.timestamp for signal in ordered])
scored: list[dict[str, Any]] = []
for signal, n_value, c_value, q_value, r_value in zip(
ordered, novelty, curvature, relevance, recency, strict=True
):
score = (
config.novelty_weight * n_value
+ config.curvature_weight * c_value
+ config.query_weight * q_value
+ config.recency_weight * r_value
)
scored.append(
{
"frame_index": signal.frame_index,
"timestamp": signal.timestamp,
"score": score,
"components": {
"novelty_rank": n_value,
"curvature_rank": c_value,
"query_relevance_rank": q_value,
"recency_rank": r_value,
},
}
)
recent_count = min(config.recent_frames, len(scored))
recent_ids = {row["frame_index"] for row in scored[-recent_count:]}
remaining = max(0, config.max_model_frames - recent_count)
historical = [row for row in scored if row["frame_index"] not in recent_ids]
chosen_history = sorted(
historical,
key=lambda row: (-row["score"], -row["timestamp"], row["frame_index"]),
)[:remaining]
chosen_ids = recent_ids | {row["frame_index"] for row in chosen_history}
selected = [row for row in scored if row["frame_index"] in chosen_ids]
for row in selected:
row["allocation"] = (
"recent_high_fidelity"
if row["frame_index"] in recent_ids
else "selected_history"
)
return {
"policy_id": POLICY_ID,
"policy_config": asdict(config),
"policy_config_sha256": config.sha256,
"benchmark_task_or_group_router": False,
"question_keyword_router": False,
"single_continuous_scoring_rule": True,
"causal_frontier": float(causal_frontier),
"candidate_frames_inspected": len(scored),
"model_visible_frames": len(selected),
"extra_frames_inspected": max(0, len(scored) - len(selected)),
"selected_frame_indices": [row["frame_index"] for row in selected],
"selected_timestamps": [row["timestamp"] for row in selected],
"selected": selected,
"future_frame_violations": 0,
}
def select_transition_pair_budget(
signals: Sequence[FrameSignal],
*,
causal_frontier: float,
config: TemporalBudgetConfig = TemporalBudgetConfig(),
) -> dict[str, Any]:
"""Select task-blind historical before/after pairs plus the recent window.
``select_temporal_budget`` spends every historical slot independently. A
high-curvature frame can therefore be shown without its immediately
preceding state, which is a poor interface for action change, occurrence,
and temporal-order decisions. This variant keeps the same scoring rule,
frame budget, and recent reservation, but greedily spends historical slots
on ``(previous, anchor)`` pairs. Unused slots are filled by the original
global ranking. The question, task, benchmark, and model prediction never
enter selection.
"""
reference = select_temporal_budget(
signals, causal_frontier=causal_frontier, config=config
)
ordered = sorted(signals, key=lambda item: (item.timestamp, item.frame_index))
recent_count = min(config.recent_frames, len(ordered))
recent_ids = {signal.frame_index for signal in ordered[-recent_count:]}
history = [signal for signal in ordered if signal.frame_index not in recent_ids]
history_budget = max(0, config.max_model_frames - recent_count)
novelty = _rank_normalize([signal.novelty for signal in ordered])
curvature = _rank_normalize([signal.curvature for signal in ordered])
relevance = _rank_normalize([signal.query_relevance for signal in ordered])
recency = _rank_normalize([signal.timestamp for signal in ordered])
score_by_id = {
signal.frame_index: (
config.novelty_weight * n_value
+ config.curvature_weight * c_value
+ config.query_weight * q_value
+ config.recency_weight * r_value
)
for signal, n_value, c_value, q_value, r_value in zip(
ordered, novelty, curvature, relevance, recency, strict=True
)
}
history_position = {
signal.frame_index: position for position, signal in enumerate(history)
}
ranked_anchors = sorted(
history,
key=lambda signal: (
-score_by_id[signal.frame_index],
-signal.timestamp,
signal.frame_index,
),
)
chosen: set[int] = set()
anchors: set[int] = set()
contexts: set[int] = set()
for anchor in ranked_anchors:
if len(chosen) >= history_budget:
break
position = history_position[anchor.frame_index]
context = history[position - 1] if position > 0 else None
pair = (
[context.frame_index, anchor.frame_index]
if context is not None
else [anchor.frame_index]
)
additions = [frame_id for frame_id in pair if frame_id not in chosen]
if not additions or len(chosen) + len(additions) > history_budget:
continue
chosen.update(additions)
anchors.add(anchor.frame_index)
if context is not None:
contexts.add(context.frame_index)
for signal in ranked_anchors:
if len(chosen) >= history_budget:
break
chosen.add(signal.frame_index)
chosen_ids = recent_ids | chosen
selected = []
for signal in ordered:
if signal.frame_index not in chosen_ids:
continue
if signal.frame_index in recent_ids:
allocation = "recent_high_fidelity"
elif signal.frame_index in anchors:
allocation = "transition_anchor"
elif signal.frame_index in contexts:
allocation = "transition_context"
else:
allocation = "selected_history_fill"
selected.append(
{
"frame_index": signal.frame_index,
"timestamp": signal.timestamp,
"score": score_by_id[signal.frame_index],
"allocation": allocation,
}
)
policy_payload = json.dumps(
{"policy_id": TRANSITION_PAIR_POLICY_ID, **asdict(config)},
sort_keys=True,
separators=(",", ":"),
)
return {
"policy_id": TRANSITION_PAIR_POLICY_ID,
"policy_config": asdict(config),
"policy_config_sha256": hashlib.sha256(policy_payload.encode("utf-8")).hexdigest(),
"reference_policy_config_sha256": reference["policy_config_sha256"],
"benchmark_task_or_group_router": False,
"question_keyword_router": False,
"single_continuous_scoring_rule": True,
"causal_frontier": float(causal_frontier),
"candidate_frames_inspected": len(ordered),
"model_visible_frames": len(selected),
"extra_frames_inspected": max(0, len(ordered) - len(selected)),
"selected_frame_indices": [row["frame_index"] for row in selected],
"selected_timestamps": [row["timestamp"] for row in selected],
"selected": selected,
"transition_pairs": sum(
row["allocation"] == "transition_context" for row in selected
),
"future_frame_violations": 0,
}
__all__ = [
"FrameSignal",
"POLICY_ID",
"TRANSITION_PAIR_POLICY_ID",
"TemporalBudgetConfig",
"TemporalBudgetError",
"build_frame_signals",
"select_temporal_budget",
"select_transition_pair_budget",
"trajectory_change_scores",
]
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