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R1V4

LLMs Skywork Vision + text 1 build Open weights 0 dl/mo

R1V4 is an open-weight language model from Skywork.

What it is

Released bySkywork
TypeLanguage models
TaskVision + text
Runs withtransformers
Released2025-12-03
Popularity0 downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

From the model card

What Skywork says about R1V4

1. Model Introduction

Skywork-R1V4 is a 30B (A3B) multimodal agent that unifies:

  • Multimodal task planning
  • Active image manipulation (“thinking with images”)
  • Deep multimodal search (text × image)
  • Interleaved tool-grounded reasoning

Skywork-R1V4 is trained purely via supervised finetuning on < 30k high-quality, execution-consistent trajectories.

Read the full model card

At inference time, the model exhibits emergent long-horizon reasoning, executing 10+ tool calls across visual operations and web search to solve complex real-world tasks.

Skywork-R1V4 achieves state-of-the-art performance on multimodal search benchmarks:

  • MMSearch: 66.1
  • FVQA: 67.2
  • Beats Gemini 2.5 Flash on all 11 comparable metrics

2. Feature

🔍 “Thinking With Images”

Skywork-R1V4 actively manipulates images through:

    • Multi-stage cropping     • Local detail extraction     • Region attention     • Visual clue refinement

🔄 Interleaved Reasoning

The model alternates between:

    1. Visual reasoning     2. Image operation     3. Web search     4. Cross-evidence verification

3. Links

  • Model Center: https://platform.skyworkmodel.ai/#/model-center
  • API Documentation (R1V4): https://docs.skyworkmodel.ai/r1v4/api-reference/completions.html

4. Citation

If you use Skywork-R1V4 in your research, please cite:

@misc{zhang2025skyworkr1v4agenticmultimodalintelligence,
      title={Skywork-R1V4: Toward Agentic Multimodal Intelligence through Interleaved Thinking with Images and DeepResearch},
      author={Yifan Zhang and Liang Hu and Haofeng Sun and Peiyu Wang and Yichen Wei and Shukang Yin and Jiangbo Pei and Wei Shen and Peng Xia and Yi Peng and Tianyidan Xie and Eric Li and Yang Liu and Xuchen Song and Yahui Zhou},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2512.02395},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.02395},
}
@misc{peng2025skyworkr1vpioneeringmultimodal,
      title={Skywork R1V: Pioneering Multimodal Reasoning with Chain-of-Thought},
      author={Yi Peng and Peiyu Wang and Xiaokun Wang and Yichen Wei and Jiangbo Pei and Weijie Qiu and Ai Jian and Yunzhuo Hao and Jiachun Pan and Tianyidan Xie and Li Ge and Rongxian Zhuang and Xuchen Song and Yang Liu and Yahui Zhou},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2504.05599},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.05599},
}

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

How it works

How language models work

Your prompttext / messagesTransformerattention over tokensNext-token loopgenerate + streamResponsetext · tool callsA language model reads your tokens and predicts the next one, again and again, streaming the reply back.
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