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geochat

LLMs MBZUAI Text gen 1 build Open weights 3k dl/mo

geochat is an open-weight language model from MBZUAI. geochat-7B (BF16) weighs 14.1 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is 2× RTX 3060 12 GB.

GeoChat is a grounded Large Vision Language Model developed by MBZUAI for remote sensing scenarios. It is fine-tuned using the LLaVA-1.5 architecture to handle high-resolution imagery and supports tasks such as image captioning, visual question answering, and scene classification. The model has a context length of 4096 tokens and is released under the apache-2.0 licence.

Summary of the MBZUAI/geochat-7B model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byMBZUAI
TypeLanguage models
TaskText gen
Context4,096 tokens
Runs withtransformers
Released2024-02-26
Popularity3k downloads / month
Weights14.1 GB (geochat-7B (BF16), file size)
LicenceOpen weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for geochat-7B (BF16)

Weights 14.1 GB (file size) · KV cache 524 MB per 1,000 tokens of context, at 16 bits (vLLM's default for this build; an 8-bit cache halves it) · runtime overhead from 620 MB on a small card · context up to 4,096 tokens.

CardRequests at once
4K, its whole window tokens each
Requests at once
32K tokens each
Longest single
request
Counted
memory
RTX 3060 12 GB———11.6 GB
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB——1K15.4 GB
RTX 3090 24 GB4—all 4K23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GB4—all 4K23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GB7—all 4K31.0 GB
L40S 48 GB13—all 4K44.0 GB
A100 80 GB29—all 4K78.2 GB
H100 80 GB28—all 4K78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB35—all 4K93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified41—all 4K107 GB
H200 141 GB56—all 4K138 GB
B200 180 GB73—all 4K176 GB
2× RTX 3060 12 GB
tensor parallel
3—all 4K11.6 GB a card
2× RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
tensor parallel
7—all 4K15.4 GB a card
2× RTX 4090 24 GB
tensor parallel
14—all 4K23.4 GB a card
2× RTX 3090 24 GB
tensor parallel
14—all 4K23.4 GB a card
2× RTX 5090 32 GB
tensor parallel
21—all 4K31.0 GB a card
Memory needed at each load
Requests at once4K, its whole window tokens each32K tokens each
116.9 GB—
525.5 GB—
831.9 GB—
1649.1 GB—
3283.5 GB—
64152 GB—

On one card, with vLLM's small-card settings (2,048 tokens a step). Cards of 70 GB and more reserve more per request and more overhead — each row above uses its own card's settings.

Estimates, not measurements, checked against published vLLM startup logs. The weights are the build's file size; the cache is calculated from its config (multi-head attention); the overhead is an estimate of vLLM's own memory with that card's default settings. "Requests at once" is how many requests of that length vLLM admits — its reservation at full length, with --max-model-len set to that length; requests that stay shorter fit more. "Longest single request" is the most one request can hold there: below the model's maximum, vLLM starts only with --max-model-len set at or under it. "Counted memory" is vLLM's default 92 % of what CUDA reports for the card (the DGX Spark: about 100 GiB of its shared 128 GB). A tensor-parallel split pools the cards' memory and speeds each token up, at the cost of the link between them; a layer split (llama.cpp) holds more but does not make one request faster. Assumes vLLM 0.10 or later.

From the model card

What MBZUAI says about geochat

Read the model card

GeoChat is the first grounded Large Vision Language Model, specifically tailored to Remote Sensing(RS) scenarios. Unlike general-domain models, GeoChat excels in handling high-resolution RS imagery, employing region-level reasoning for comprehensive scene interpretation. Leveraging a newly created RS multimodal dataset, GeoChat is fine-tuned using the LLaVA-1.5 architecture. This results in robust zero-shot performance across various RS tasks, including image and region captioning, visual question answering, scene classification, visually grounded conversations, and referring object detection.

  • Developed by MBZUAI

Model Sources

  • Repository: https://github.com/mbzuai-oryx/GeoChat
  • Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.15826

BibTeX:

@misc{kuckreja2023geochat,
      title={GeoChat: Grounded Large Vision-Language Model for Remote Sensing},
      author={Kartik Kuckreja and Muhammad Sohail Danish and Muzammal Naseer and Abhijit Das and Salman Khan and Fahad Shahbaz Khan},
      year={2023},
      eprint={2311.15826},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV}
}

Authors

Kartik Kuckreja, Muhammad Sohail

Contact

kartik.kuckreja@mbzuai.ac.ae

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face — the full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

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