# vikhyatk/moondream2

This model is a small vision language model, and the card highlights step by step reasoning grounded in spatial positions within the image. It also improves OCR for documents and tables and object detection for document layout.

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- Citation: vikhyatk/moondream2. The Hugging Bay model record. https://huggingbay.xyz/artifact/hf-model-vikhyatk-moondream2 (retrieved 2026-11-14).
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## Facts

- Type: Vision
- Task: image-text-to-text
- Framework: transformers
- License: apache-2.0: Permissive open license: commercial use, modification, and redistribution are permitted. (https://spdx.org/licenses/Apache-2.0.html)
- Source: https://huggingface.co/vikhyatk/moondream2
- Hosting: hosted (6 files)
- Files: 6 hosted of 28 listed
- Needs its own code to run: Uses custom model code (configuration_moondream.py). Plain llama.cpp, Ollama and LM Studio commands are not offered for this model unless a GGUF file is listed.
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- Hosted here: 6 hosted of 28 listed
- Full repo upstream: 3.86 GB
- Recommended file: 3.85 GB · model.safetensors
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- Availability: Ready
- Downloadable: yes
- Run-ready: no (Hugging Bay has not certified a run path for this model; hosted bytes are downloadable and hash-checkable only)
- Peer-assisted fallbacks: 0 verified, 0 pending review
- Downloads: 1543038
- Stars: 1424
- Card completeness: 88%

## Description

This model is a small vision language model, and the card highlights step by step reasoning grounded in spatial positions within the image. It also improves OCR for documents and tables and object detection for document layout.

## Model Card Facts

- Declared license: apache-2.0
- Pipeline: image-text-to-text
- Library: transformers
- Task categories: image-text-to-text

## Quality Checklist

- Summary: passed
- Description: passed
- Model card metadata: thin
- License: passed
- Provenance: passed
- File inventory: passed
- Hosted bytes: passed
- Scan result: passed
- Manifest signature: passed

## Safety Notes

- Mirrored 6 selected Hugging Face files by configured-admin; hashes computed from downloaded bytes and manifest signed.
- External catalog metadata imported from Hugging Face public API on 2026-07-01T18:03:03.144Z.
- Open license detected as apache-2.0.
- Not a run kit: hosted, hash-checked bytes only; run readiness is not certified for this model yet.

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