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This model was released on 2025-09-16 and added to Hugging Face Transformers on 2026-04-28.

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MiniCPM-V

MiniCPM-V is a series of efficient multimodal large language models developed by OpenBMB. The MiniCPM-V 4.6 architecture uses a SigLIP vision encoder with a window-attention merger and a Qwen3.5 language model backbone, supporting both 4x and 16x visual downsampling modes.

This model was contributed by OpenBMB. The original code can be found here.

Usage example

Inference with Pipeline

python
from transformers import pipeline

messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {
                "type": "image",
                "image": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/bee.jpg",
            },
            {"type": "text", "text": "Describe this image."},
        ],
    },
]

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4_6")
outputs = pipe(text=messages, max_new_tokens=50, return_full_text=False)
outputs[0]["generated_text"]

Inference on a single image

[!NOTE] The model has been trained with a specific prompt format for chatting. Use processor.apply_chat_template(my_conversation_dict) to correctly format your prompts.

python
from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForImageTextToText

model_checkpoint = "openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4_6"
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_checkpoint)
model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained(model_checkpoint, device_map="auto")

messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/pipeline-cat-chonk.jpeg"},
            {"type": "text", "text": "Describe this image."},
        ],
    }
]

inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(
    messages, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=True,
    return_dict=True, return_tensors="pt",
).to(model.device, dtype=model.dtype)

output = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=100)
decoded_output = processor.decode(output[0, inputs["input_ids"].shape[1]:], skip_special_tokens=True)
print(decoded_output)

Downsampling mode

MiniCPM-V 4.6 supports two visual downsampling modes:

  • 16x (default): More aggressive downsampling, fewer visual tokens, faster inference.
  • 4x: Less downsampling, more visual tokens, better for detail-rich tasks.

You can change the downsampling mode at runtime by passing downsample_mode via processor_kwargs and to model.generate:

python
inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(
    messages, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=True,
    return_dict=True, return_tensors="pt",
    processor_kwargs={"downsample_mode": "4x"},
).to(model.device, dtype=model.dtype)

output = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=100, downsample_mode="4x")

Thinking mode

The model supports a thinking mode controlled by enable_thinking in the chat template. When enabled, the model generates internal reasoning before providing the final answer:

python
inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(
    messages, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=True,
    return_dict=True, return_tensors="pt",
    enable_thinking=True,
).to(model.device, dtype=model.dtype)

output = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=1024)

To disable thinking (default for evaluation):

python
inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(
    messages, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=True,
    return_dict=True, return_tensors="pt",
    enable_thinking=False,
).to(model.device, dtype=model.dtype)

Image processing backend

MiniCPM-V 4.6 provides two image processing backends:

  • torchvision (default): Uses torchvision.transforms for image resizing.
  • pil: Uses PIL.Image.resize, matching the original implementation.

To use the PIL backend:

python
from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoImageProcessor

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_checkpoint)
processor.image_processor = AutoImageProcessor.from_pretrained(model_checkpoint, backend="pil")

Video inference

MiniCPM-V 4.6 supports video understanding.

python
messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "video", "video": "path/to/video.mp4"},
            {"type": "text", "text": "Describe what happens in this video."},
        ],
    }
]

inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(
    messages, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=True,
    return_dict=True, return_tensors="pt",
).to(model.device, dtype=model.dtype)

output = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=200)
decoded_output = processor.decode(output[0, inputs["input_ids"].shape[1]:], skip_special_tokens=True)
print(decoded_output)

If you already have the rendered prompt string, you can call processor(text=..., videos=[...]) directly instead.

MiniCPMV4_6Config

[[autodoc]] MiniCPMV4_6Config

MiniCPMV4_6VisionConfig

[[autodoc]] MiniCPMV4_6VisionConfig

MiniCPMV4_6Model

[[autodoc]] MiniCPMV4_6Model - forward - get_image_features

MiniCPMV4_6ForConditionalGeneration

[[autodoc]] MiniCPMV4_6ForConditionalGeneration - forward - get_image_features

MiniCPMV4_6Processor

[[autodoc]] MiniCPMV4_6Processor - call

MiniCPMV4_6ImageProcessor

[[autodoc]] MiniCPMV4_6ImageProcessor - preprocess

MiniCPMV4_6ImageProcessorPil

[[autodoc]] MiniCPMV4_6ImageProcessorPil - preprocess

MiniCPMV4_6VideoProcessor

[[autodoc]] MiniCPMV4_6VideoProcessor - preprocess