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# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="deepguess/Isobar-1")
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, AutoModelForImageTextToText

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("deepguess/Isobar-1")
model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained("deepguess/Isobar-1")
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]:]))
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Isobar-1

Isobar-1 is a weather-specialized vision-language model for radar, sounding, satellite, and forecast-map interpretation.

This release is the merged full model version of a two-stage fine-tune built on top of Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B.

What This Model Is

  • Base model: Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B
  • Release family: Isobar
  • Release: Isobar-1
  • Model type: merged multimodal causal LM / image-text model
  • Intended use: weather image interpretation, technical meteorology QA, operational weather analysis assistance

Training Lineage

Isobar-1 was produced by merging a stage-2 adapter into the base model.

Training stages:

  1. Broad weather VLM adaptation on deepguess/weather-vlm
  2. Curated refinement on deepguess/weather-analysis-sft

The stage-2 refinement was trained from the stage-1 weather checkpoint rather than from the raw base model, so this release reflects both stages together.

Intended Use

Good use cases:

  • Interpreting radar imagery
  • Interpreting soundings and hodographs
  • Explaining severe-weather setups
  • Reading forecast maps and model visualizations
  • Technical weather question answering grounded in images

Not the target for this release:

  • General-purpose agent/tool calling
  • Fully autonomous forecast operations
  • Non-weather multimodal tasks

A later Isobar-1-Agent style release is the better place for dedicated tool-use behavior.

Limitations

  • This model can still be wrong on edge cases, ambiguous imagery, and unusual regional setups.
  • It is tuned for weather analysis, not guaranteed forecast verification skill.
  • It should not be treated as a standalone warning or life-safety authority.
  • Image quality, missing context, bad timestamps, and incomplete annotation can still degrade output quality.

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from transformers import AutoModelForImageTextToText, AutoProcessor

model_id = "deepguess/Isobar-1"

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

Attribution

This model is based on Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B.

The release name Isobar-1 is a downstream branding name for this fine-tuned derivative. It is not an official Qwen release.

License

This release is provided under Apache-2.0, consistent with the upstream base model license. See the upstream model card and license terms for the base model as well.

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