InternVL is a vision-language model framework that fuses a visual encoder with a large language model to translate image features into textual tokens for reasoning. It provides a system for multimodal inference and dialogue, enabling the processing of images and text to answer questions or generate descriptions.
The project is distinguished by its high-resolution image processing, which uses dynamic tiling to maintain detail for images up to 4K resolution, and its chain-of-thought visual reasoning for solving complex mathematical and spatial problems. It also supports temporal frame sampling for video understanding and provides zero-shot capabilities for image classification and multilingual cross-modal retrieval.
The framework covers a broad range of capabilities including optical character recognition, object localization, and semantic image segmentation. It supports distributed multimodal training and fine-tuning via low-rank adaptation, as well as performance optimizations such as weight quantization and model distillation.
Deployment is supported through an OpenAI-compatible REST interface, a web-based chat interface, and a command-line interface with multi-GPU layer distribution.