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Sa2VA-LLaVA-1.5

LLMs ByteDance Vision + text 1 build Open weights 27 dl/mo

Sa2VA-LLaVA-1.5 is an open-weight language model from ByteDance. Sa2VA-LLaVA-1.5-7B (FP32) weighs 14.6 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is 2× RTX 3060 12 GB.

  • Sa2VA-LLaVA-1.5-7B is a 7.3B parameter image-text-to-text model developed by ByteDance.
  • It combines a CLIP-ViT-L-336 vision encoder, a Vicuna-7B language model, and a SAM2 grounding encoder to perform dense image and video referring segmentation alongside open-ended chat.
  • The model is released under the apache-2.0 license.

Summary of the ByteDance/Sa2VA-LLaVA-1.5-7B model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byByteDance
Released2026-06-15
Parameters7.3B
VRAM14.6 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for Sa2VA-LLaVA-1.5-7B (FP32)

14.6 GBweights, file size
524 MBcache per 1K tokens
1.9 GBruntime overhead, at least
4,096 tokenscontext max
CardRequests at onceContext maxMemory
4K each
RTX 3060 12 GB … RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
2 smaller cards
——
RTX 3090 24 GB3all 4K23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GB3all 4K23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GB6all 4K31.0 GB
L40S 48 GB12all 4K44.0 GB
A100 80 GB28all 4K78.2 GB
H100 80 GB27all 4K78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB34all 4K93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified40all 4K107 GB
H200 141 GB55all 4K138 GB
B200 180 GB72all 4K176 GB
2× RTX 3060 12 GB
tensor parallel
2all 4K11.6 GB a card
2× RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
tensor parallel
5all 4K15.4 GB a card
2× RTX 4090 24 GB
tensor parallel
13all 4K23.4 GB a card
2× RTX 3090 24 GB
tensor parallel
13all 4K23.4 GB a card
2× RTX 5090 32 GB
tensor parallel
20all 4K31.0 GB a card
Memory needed at each load
Requests at once4K tokens each
118.7 GB
527.3 GB
833.7 GB
1650.9 GB
3285.2 GB
64154 GB

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

From the model card

What ByteDance says about Sa2VA-LLaVA-1.5

Read the model card

Sa2VA-LLaVA-1.5-7B is a Sa2VA model built on LLaVA-1.5-7B (CLIP-ViT-L-336 vision encoder + Vicuna-7B language model) with a SAM2 grounding encoder. The MLLM predicts a [SEG] token whose hidden state conditions the SAM2 mask decoder, producing dense image and video referring segmentation alongside open-ended chat. It is intended as a LISA-comparable baseline within the Sa2VA family.

This checkpoint is self-contained: the SAM2 grounding code is vendored into the repository, so it loads with trust_remote_code=True without any extra packages.

Results

Image referring segmentation (cIoU):

RefCOCO val / testA / testBRefCOCO+ val / testA / testBRefCOCOg val / test
80.3 / 82.4 / 76.773.1 / 78.0 / 66.279.2 / 80.1

Video referring segmentation (J&F):

MeViS (val_u)ReVOSRef-DAVIS17
54.854.074.6

Grounded conversation generation (GCG, val):

AP50mIoURecall
31.266.643.7

Usage

import torch
from transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer
from PIL import Image

path = "HarborYuan/Sa2VA-LLaVA-1.5-7B"
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(
    path, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16, trust_remote_code=True, low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
).eval().cuda()
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(path, trust_remote_code=True)

image = Image.open("your_image.jpg").convert("RGB")
out = model.predict_forward(
    image=image,
    text="Please segment the dog in the image.",
    tokenizer=tokenizer,
)
print(out["prediction"])          # text response containing [SEG]
masks = out["prediction_masks"]   # list of boolean masks at the original image size

Load in bfloat16 (the lm_head is kept in higher precision; torch_dtype="auto" mixes dtypes and fails). This model uses a tokenizer (not an AutoProcessor).

For video, pass video=[frame0, frame1, ...] (a list of PIL images) instead of image.

Notes

  • SAM2 grounding input resolution is 1024.
  • Built on Sa2VA.

Citation

If you find this project useful in your research, please consider citing:

@article{sa2va,
  title={Sa2VA: Marrying SAM2 with LLaVA for Dense Grounded Understanding of Images and Videos},
  author={Yuan, Haobo and Li, Xiangtai and Zhang, Tao and Sun, Yueyi and Huang, Zilong and Xu, Shilin and Ji, Shunping and Tong, Yunhai and Qi, Lu and Feng, Jiashi and Yang, Ming-Hsuan},
  journal={IEEE TPAMI},
  year={2026}
}

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

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