README.md

---
base_model:
- Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct
language:
- en
license: apache-2.0
tags:
- transformers
- multimodal
pipeline_tag: visual-question-answering
---

# VL-Rethinker-7B

**VL-Rethinker-7B** achieves SoTA results on various multimodal reasoning benchmarks.

It is trained using the **GRPO-SSR and Forced Rethinking** techniques.

For details of our approach and performance comparison, please see our [paper](https://github.com/TIGER-AI-Lab/VL-Rethinker/blob/main/paper.pdf).

For details of training and evaluation, please see our [code repo](https://github.com/TIGER-AI-Lab/VL-Rethinker/).

Explore further via the following links:

| [**🚀Project Page**](https://tiger-ai-lab.github.io/VL-Rethinker/) | [**📖Paper**](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08837) | [**🔗Github**](https://github.com/TIGER-AI-Lab/VL-Rethinker/) | [**🤗Data** (Coming Soon)]()  |

## Citation

If you feel this model useful, please give us a free cite:
```
@article{vl-rethinker,
      title={VL-Rethinker: Incentivizing Self-Reflection of Vision-Language Models with Reinforcement Learning},
      author = {Wang, Haozhe and Qu, Chao and Huang, Zuming and Chu, Wei and Lin, Fangzhen and Chen, Wenhu},
      journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.08837},
      year={2025}
} 
```