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Overview

DeepSeek-VL2 is a family of vision-language models published on Hugging Face by deepseek-ai, designed to accept image-plus-text prompts and produce free-form text outputs. Built for multimodal understanding tasks, the series targets image captioning, visual question answering (VQA), and instruction-driven image reasoning workflows where a user provides both an image and a textual prompt. According to the model page on Hugging Face, the primary distributed artifact supports an image-text-to-text pipeline and is available in multiple sizes to balance capability and compute requirements (https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/deepseek-vl2). The model is positioned for practitioners who need an off-the-shelf multimodal LLM to integrate into applications such as accessible image descriptions, image-grounded chatbots, and automated visual content analysis. The Hugging Face listing reports 27.5 billion parameters for the main release and community engagement metrics (downloads and likes) that indicate early adoption. The model card lists a non-standard license designation (“other”); users should consult the Hugging Face page for current license terms and any inference or deployment constraints.

Model Statistics

Downloads: 12,660
Likes: 377
Pipeline: image-text-to-text
Parameters: 27.5B

License: other

Model Details

Architecture and size: DeepSeek-VL2 is provided as a large transformer-based multimodal model; the main published variant is reported as a 27.5B-parameter model. The Hugging Face model page classifies it under an image-text-to-text pipeline, meaning it accepts both images and text prompts and generates text outputs. Capabilities: Because it implements an image-text-to-text interface, typical use cases include open-ended image captioning, visual question answering, multimodal instruction-following, and generating grounded textual descriptions from provided images and context. The model is distributed through Hugging Face and may include multiple size checkpoints to trade off latency and accuracy (the listing describes a “series” of models). Licensing and base models: The model card indicates a license listed as "other" and does not explicitly name a pretraining base model on the primary page; users should check the Hugging Face repository for the full license text, usage restrictions, or links to training details. Deployment: because of its size, running the 27.5B variant requires GPU resources; practitioners often use device mapping, model parallelism, or hosted inference endpoints for production use.

Key Features

Image-plus-text prompt input for open-ended text generation and multimodal instructions
Supports image captioning tasks with free-form, descriptive outputs
Useful for visual question answering (VQA) with image-grounded answers
Offered in multiple model sizes to balance accuracy and compute needs
Distributed on Hugging Face with community engagement and downloads

Example Usage

Example (python):

from PIL import Image
from transformers import pipeline

# Example: run a simple image+prompt query using Hugging Face transformers pipeline.
# Adjust pipeline task name if needed (the model page lists "image-text-to-text").
model_id = "deepseek-ai/deepseek-vl2"

pipe = pipeline("image-to-text", model=model_id, device=0)  # change device or use cpu
img = Image.open("./example.jpg")

# Prompt the model with an explicit question about the image
prompt = "Describe the main objects and activities in this image in one sentence."
result = pipe(img, prompt)

# pipeline returns a list of outputs; print the generated text
print(result[0]["generated_text"] if isinstance(result[0], dict) and "generated_text" in result[0] else result)

# Notes:
# - If the model exposes a different pipeline name (e.g., "image-text-to-text"), replace the task string.
# - For large variants, use device_map='auto' or accelerate to handle GPU memory. Consult the model card on Hugging Face for specifics.