This model was released on 2026-04-09 and added to Hugging Face Transformers on 2026-05-04.

EXAONE 4.5

Overview

EXAONE 4.5 model is the first open-weight vision language model developed by LG AI Research. Integrating a dedicated visual encoder into the existing EXAONE 4.0 framework, we expand the model's capability toward multimodality. EXAONE 4.5 features 33 billion parameters in total, including 1.2 billion parameters from the vision encoder. EXAONE 4.5 achieves competitive performance in general benchmark while outperforming SOTA models of similar size in document understanding and Korean contextual reasoning, inheriting powerful language capabilities from our previous language models.

EXAONE 4.5 builds on the foundation of EXAONE 4.0 with several key enhancements. The vocabulary size has been expanded to 153,600, and the context window now supports up to 256K tokens. In addition, a Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) mechanism has been introduced, further improving the model's performance.

For more details, please refer to the technical report, blog and GitHub.

All model weights including quantized version are available at Huggingface Collections.

Usage tips

To achieve the expected performance, we recommend using the following configurations:

• We recommend to use temperature=1.0, top_p=0.95, presence_penalty=1.5 for general purpose.
• We recommend to use temperature=0.6, top_p=0.95, presence_penalty=1.5, top_k=20 for OCR/document-related tasks, and Korean inputs.
• We recommend to use temperature=1.0, top_p=0.95 for text-only inputs.
• Different from EXAONE-4.0, EXAONE 4.5 uses enable_thinking=True as default. Thus, you need to set enable_thinking=False when you want to use non-reasoning mode.
• EXAONE 4.5 prefers using \boxed{} format to answer the question. We recommend using this format with the corresponding format instruction for better parsing accuracy.

For tasks that require accurate results, you can run the EXAONE 4.5 model in reasoning mode, whereas for tasks where latency matters more than accuracy, you can run the EXAONE 4.5 model in non-reasoning mode.

Here is the example code for using EXAONE 4.5 model in reasoning mode:

import torch
from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForImageTextToText
from transformers.image_utils import load_image

model_id = "LGAI-EXAONE/EXAONE-4.5-33B"

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained(
    model_id,
    device_map="auto",
)

image_url = "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/pipeline-cat-chonk.jpeg"
image = load_image(image_url)

messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "image", "image": image_url},
            {"type": "text", "text": "Describe the image."},
        ],
    }
]

text = processor.apply_chat_template(
    messages,
    tokenize=False,
    add_generation_prompt=True,
    enable_thinking=True,   # default: True
)
inputs = processor(
    text=[text],
    images=[image],
    padding=True,
    return_tensors="pt",
)
inputs = inputs.to(model.device)

generated_ids = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=64)
generated_text = processor.batch_decode(
    generated_ids[:, inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:],
    skip_special_tokens=True,
)[0]
print(generated_text)

Exaone4_5_Config

[[autodoc]] Exaone4_5_Config

Exaone4_5_VisionConfig

[[autodoc]] Exaone4_5_VisionConfig

Exaone4_5_Processor

[[autodoc]] Exaone4_5_Processor

Exaone4_5_VisionModel

[[autodoc]] Exaone4_5_VisionModel - forward

Exaone4_5_Model

[[autodoc]] Exaone4_5_Model - forward

Exaone4_5_ForConditionalGeneration

[[autodoc]] Exaone4_5_ForConditionalGeneration - forward