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Intern-S1-mini

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Intern-S1-mini is an open-weight language model from internlm. Intern-S1-mini (BF16) weighs 17.1 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is 2× RTX 3060 12 GB.

  • Intern-S1-mini is an open-source multimodal reasoning model developed by internlm that processes image, video, and text inputs.
  • It features an 8.5B parameter architecture built on an 8B dense language model and a 0.3B vision encoder, and it is licensed under apache-2.0.
  • The model was pretrained on 5 trillion tokens of multimodal data, with over 2.5 trillion tokens from scientific domains, to support tasks such as interpreting chemical structures and understanding protein sequences.

Summary of the internlm/Intern-S1-mini model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byinternlm
Released2025-08-18
Parameters8.5B
VRAM17.1 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for Intern-S1-mini (BF16)

17.1 GBweights, file size
147 MBcache per 1K tokens
2.0 GBruntime overhead, at least
65,536 tokenscontext max
CardRequests at onceContext maxMemory
8K each32K each
RTX 3060 12 GB … RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
2 smaller cards
———
RTX 3090 24 GB3—28K23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GB3—28K23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GB92all 64K31.0 GB
L40S 48 GB205all 64K44.0 GB
A100 80 GB4812all 64K78.2 GB
H100 80 GB4511all 64K78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB5814all 64K93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified6917all 64K107 GB
H200 141 GB9423all 64K138 GB
B200 180 GB12531all 64K176 GB
2× RTX 3060 12 GB
tensor parallel
1—13K11.6 GB a card
2× RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
tensor parallel
7163K15.4 GB a card
2× RTX 4090 24 GB
tensor parallel
215all 64K23.4 GB a card
2× RTX 3090 24 GB
tensor parallel
215all 64K23.4 GB a card
Memory needed at each load
Requests at once8K tokens each32K tokens each
120.3 GB24.0 GB
525.2 GB43.3 GB
828.8 GB57.8 GB
1638.4 GB96.4 GB
3257.8 GB174 GB
6496.4 GB328 GB

One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.

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What internlm says about Intern-S1-mini

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Intern-S1-mini

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Introduction

We introduce Intern-S1-mini, a lightweight open-source multimodal reasoning model based on the same techniques as Intern-S1. Built upon an 8B dense language model (Qwen3) and a 0.3B Vision encoder (InternViT), Intern-S1-mini has been further pretrained on 5 trillion tokens of multimodal data, including over 2.5 trillion scientific-domain tokens. This enables the model to retain strong general capabilities while excelling in specialized scientific domains such as interpreting chemical structures, understanding protein sequences, and planning compound synthesis routes, making Intern-S1-mini to be a capable research assistant for real-world scientific applications.

Features

  • Strong performance across language and vision reasoning benchmarks, especially scientific tasks.

  • Continuously pretrained on a massive 5T token dataset, with over 50% specialized scientific data, embedding deep domain expertise.

  • Dynamic tokenizer enables native understanding of molecular formulas and protein sequences.

Performance

We evaluate the Intern-S1-mini on various benchmarks including general datasets and scientific datasets. We report the performance comparison with the recent VLMs and LLMs below.

Intern-S1-miniQwen3-8BGLM-4.1VMiMo-VL-7B-RL-2508
GeneralMMLU-Pro74.7873.757.173.93
 MMMU72.33N/A69.970.4
 MMStar65.2N/A71.572.9
 GPQA65.156250.3260.35
 AIME202484.587636.272.6
 AIME20258067.33264.4
 MathVision51.41N/A53.954.5
 MathVista70.3N/A80.779.4
 IFEval81.158571.5371.4
ScientificSFE35.84N/A43.243.9
 Physics28.76N/A28.328.2
 SmolInstruct32.217.618.116.11
 ChemBench76.4761.156.266.78
 MatBench61.5545.2454.346.9
 MicroVQA56.62N/A50.250.96
 ProteinLMBench58.4759.158.359.8
 MSEarthMCQ58.12N/A50.347.3
 XLRS-Bench51.63N/A49.812.29

We use the OpenCompass and VLMEvalkit to evaluate all models.

Quick Start

Sampling Parameters

We recommend using the following hyperparameters to ensure better results

top_p = 1.0
top_k = 50
min_p = 0.0
temperature = 0.8

Transformers

The following provides demo code illustrating how to generate based on text and multimodal inputs.

Please use transformers>=4.55.2 to ensure the model works normally.

Text input
from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForCausalLM
import torch

model_name = "internlm/Intern-S1-mini"
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_name, trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_name, device_map="auto", torch_dtype="auto", trust_remote_code=True)

messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "text", "text": "tell me about an interesting physical phenomenon."},
        ],
    }
]

inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(messages, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=True, return_dict=True, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device, dtype=torch.bfloat16)

generate_ids = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=32768)
decoded_output = processor.decode(generate_ids[0, inputs["input_ids"].shape[1] :], skip_special_tokens=True)
print(decoded_output)
Image input
from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForCausalLM
import torch

model_name = "internlm/Intern-S1-mini"
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_name, trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_name, device_map="auto", torch_dtype="auto", trust_remote_code=True)

messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "image", "url": "http://images.cocodataset.org/val2017/000000039769.jpg"},
            {"type": "text", "text": "Please describe the image explicitly."},
        ],
    }
]

inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(messages, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=True, return_dict=True, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device, dtype=torch.bfloat16)

generate_ids = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=32768)
decoded_output = processor.decode(generate_ids[0, inputs["input_ids"].shape[1] :], skip_special_tokens=True)
print(decoded_output)
Video input

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