Image-Text-to-Text
Transformers
Safetensors
cohere_compass
vision
multimodal
conversational
multilingual
native-resolution
4-bit precision
paroquant
Instructions to use Jeethu/North-Micro-Vision-Instruct-PARO with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use Jeethu/North-Micro-Vision-Instruct-PARO with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="Jeethu/North-Micro-Vision-Instruct-PARO") 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)# Load model directly from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForMultimodalLM processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("Jeethu/North-Micro-Vision-Instruct-PARO") model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("Jeethu/North-Micro-Vision-Instruct-PARO", 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=40) print(processor.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:])) - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- vLLM
How to use Jeethu/North-Micro-Vision-Instruct-PARO with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "Jeethu/North-Micro-Vision-Instruct-PARO" # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "Jeethu/North-Micro-Vision-Instruct-PARO", "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/Jeethu/North-Micro-Vision-Instruct-PARO
- SGLang
How to use Jeethu/North-Micro-Vision-Instruct-PARO 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 "Jeethu/North-Micro-Vision-Instruct-PARO" \ --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": "Jeethu/North-Micro-Vision-Instruct-PARO", "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 "Jeethu/North-Micro-Vision-Instruct-PARO" \ --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": "Jeethu/North-Micro-Vision-Instruct-PARO", "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 Jeethu/North-Micro-Vision-Instruct-PARO with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/Jeethu/North-Micro-Vision-Instruct-PARO
| library_name: transformers | |
| license: apache-2.0 | |
| pipeline_tag: image-text-to-text | |
| language: | |
| - en | |
| - de | |
| - fr | |
| - es | |
| - it | |
| - pt | |
| - hi | |
| - ja | |
| - ko | |
| - zh | |
| - ar | |
| tags: | |
| - vision | |
| - multimodal | |
| - conversational | |
| - multilingual | |
| - native-resolution | |
| base_model: | |
| - CohereLabs/North-Micro-Vision-Instruct | |
| base_model_relation: quantized | |
| # Jeethu/North-Micro-Vision-Instruct | |
| **Pairwise Rotation Quantization for Efficient Reasoning LLM Inference** | |
| <p> | |
| <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10645"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/arXiv-2511.10645-b31b1b.svg" alt="Paper"></a> | |
| <a href="https://paroquant.z-lab.ai"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Blog-ParoQuant-blue" alt="Blog"></a> | |
| <a href="https://huggingface.co/collections/z-lab/paroquant"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/%F0%9F%A4%97-Models-yellow" alt="Models"></a> | |
| <a href="https://pypi.org/project/paroquant/"><img src="https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/paroquant" alt="PyPI"></a> | |
| </p> | |
| ParoQuant is the state-of-the-art INT4 quantization for LLMs. It closes the accuracy gap with FP16 while running at near-AWQ speed. Supports NVIDIA GPUs (vLLM, Transformers) and Apple Silicon (MLX). For more information, see https://github.com/z-lab/paroquant. | |
| Jeethu/North-Micro-Vision-Instruct is a 4-bit [CohereLabs/North-Micro-Vision-Instruct](https://huggingface.co/CohereLabs/North-Micro-Vision-Instruct) quantized with ParoQuant. | |
| ## Evaluation | |
| The following evaluations were run on 2026-08-14 with deterministic greedy decoding. The source checkpoint was evaluated in its native BF16 dtype. This ParoQuant checkpoint uses INT4 language projections (group size 128, `krot=8`) with FP16 retained tensors, including the vision encoder. For context, the published [MLX affine 4-bit checkpoint](https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/North-Micro-Vision-Instruct-4bit) uses group size 64 with BF16 retained tensors. | |
| ### Vision | |
| | Benchmark | Samples | Source BF16 | ParoQuant INT4 / FP16 | MLX affine 4-bit / BF16 | | |
| | --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | | |
| | [ChartQA](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmms-lab/ChartQA) relaxed accuracy | 100 | 81.00% | 81.00% | 81.00% | | |
| | [MMStar](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Lin-Chen/MMStar) accuracy | 1,500 | 50.53% | 50.33% | 51.07% | | |
| ChartQA uses a fixed seed-0 stratified sample of 50 `human_test` and 50 `augmented_test` examples. Scoring follows the VLMEvalKit relaxed rule: case-insensitive exact text matching or a 5% relative tolerance for numeric answers. MMStar uses the complete validation split and extracts the selected option from deterministic generations. | |
| Against source BF16, ParoQuant changes ChartQA by 0.00 percentage points (paired bootstrap 95% CI: -3.00 to +3.00) and MMStar by -0.20 points (95% CI: -1.80 to +1.40). A targeted multi-image color-ordering, synthetic OCR, and object-counting smoke suite was also passed exactly by source BF16 and ParoQuant. MLX was semantically correct on all three cases and exact on two; its color response was verbose. | |
| ### Text | |
| | Benchmark | Samples / tokens | Source BF16 | ParoQuant INT4 / FP16 | MLX affine 4-bit / BF16 | | |
| | --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | | |
| | [WikiText-2](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Salesforce/wikitext) perplexity (lower is better) | 32,704 tokens | 30.882 | **31.106** | 33.506 | | |
| | [ARC-Challenge](https://huggingface.co/datasets/allenai/ai2_arc) accuracy | 1,172 | 73.21% | **70.56%** | 69.88% | | |
| | [HellaSwag](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Rowan/hellaswag) accuracy | 2,000 | 49.50% | 48.20% | 49.00% | | |
| WikiText-2 perplexity uses 64 non-overlapping sequences of 512 tokens from the test split. ARC-Challenge uses the complete labeled test split. HellaSwag uses a fixed seed-0 sample from the validation split. ARC-Challenge and HellaSwag are zero-shot greedy chat multiple-choice evaluations with identical prompts and tokenization across backends; they are not canonical `lm-eval` log-likelihood scores. | |
| Against source BF16, the ParoQuant ARC-Challenge delta is -2.65 percentage points (paired bootstrap 95% CI: -4.18 to -1.11), while its HellaSwag delta is -1.30 points (95% CI: -2.80 to +0.20). | |
| Dataset revisions were pinned to `9e63b7df1592a1c2158e735cc1725454aef0d6d9` (ChartQA), `bc98d668301da7b14f648724866e57302778ab27` (MMStar), `210d026faf9955653af8916fad021475a3f00453` (ARC), `218ec52e09a7e7462a5400043bb9a69a41d06b76` (HellaSwag), and `b08601e04326c79dfdd32d625aee71d232d685c3` (WikiText). | |