Model reference · open weights
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 by | MBZUAI |
|---|---|
| Type | Language models |
| Task | Text gen |
| Context | 4,096 tokens |
| Runs with | transformers |
| Released | 2024-02-26 |
| Popularity | 3k downloads / month |
| Weights | 14.1 GB (geochat-7B (BF16), file size) |
| Licence | Open weights |
What it runs on
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.
| Card | Requests 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 | — | — | 1K | 15.4 GB |
| RTX 3090 24 GB | 4 | — | all 4K | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 4090 24 GB | 4 | — | all 4K | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | 7 | — | all 4K | 31.0 GB |
| L40S 48 GB | 13 | — | all 4K | 44.0 GB |
| A100 80 GB | 29 | — | all 4K | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | 28 | — | all 4K | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | 35 | — | all 4K | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | 41 | — | all 4K | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | 56 | — | all 4K | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | 73 | — | all 4K | 176 GB |
| 2× RTX 3060 12 GB tensor parallel | 3 | — | all 4K | 11.6 GB a card |
| 2× RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB tensor parallel | 7 | — | all 4K | 15.4 GB a card |
| 2× RTX 4090 24 GB tensor parallel | 14 | — | all 4K | 23.4 GB a card |
| 2× RTX 3090 24 GB tensor parallel | 14 | — | all 4K | 23.4 GB a card |
| 2× RTX 5090 32 GB tensor parallel | 21 | — | all 4K | 31.0 GB a card |
| Requests at once | 4K, its whole window tokens each | 32K tokens each |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16.9 GB | — |
| 5 | 25.5 GB | — |
| 8 | 31.9 GB | — |
| 16 | 49.1 GB | — |
| 32 | 83.5 GB | — |
| 64 | 152 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
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.
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}
}
Kartik Kuckreja, Muhammad Sohail
kartik.kuckreja@mbzuai.ac.ae
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face — the full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.