Model reference · open weights
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.
Summary of the ByteDance/Sa2VA-LLaVA-1.5-7B model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | ByteDance |
|---|---|
| Released | 2026-06-15 |
| Parameters | 7.3B |
| VRAM | 14.6 GB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | Requests at once | Context max | Memory |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4K each | |||
| RTX 3060 12 GB … RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB 2 smaller cards | — | — | |
| RTX 3090 24 GB | 3 | all 4K | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 4090 24 GB | 3 | all 4K | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | 6 | all 4K | 31.0 GB |
| L40S 48 GB | 12 | all 4K | 44.0 GB |
| A100 80 GB | 28 | all 4K | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | 27 | all 4K | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | 34 | all 4K | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | 40 | all 4K | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | 55 | all 4K | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | 72 | all 4K | 176 GB |
| 2× RTX 3060 12 GB tensor parallel | 2 | all 4K | 11.6 GB a card |
| 2× RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB tensor parallel | 5 | all 4K | 15.4 GB a card |
| 2× RTX 4090 24 GB tensor parallel | 13 | all 4K | 23.4 GB a card |
| 2× RTX 3090 24 GB tensor parallel | 13 | all 4K | 23.4 GB a card |
| 2× RTX 5090 32 GB tensor parallel | 20 | all 4K | 31.0 GB a card |
| Requests at once | 4K tokens each |
|---|---|
| 1 | 18.7 GB |
| 5 | 27.3 GB |
| 8 | 33.7 GB |
| 16 | 50.9 GB |
| 32 | 85.2 GB |
| 64 | 154 GB |
One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.
From 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.
Image referring segmentation (cIoU):
| RefCOCO val / testA / testB | RefCOCO+ val / testA / testB | RefCOCOg val / test |
|---|---|---|
| 80.3 / 82.4 / 76.7 | 73.1 / 78.0 / 66.2 | 79.2 / 80.1 |
Video referring segmentation (J&F):
| MeViS (val_u) | ReVOS | Ref-DAVIS17 |
|---|---|---|
| 54.8 | 54.0 | 74.6 |
Grounded conversation generation (GCG, val):
| AP50 | mIoU | Recall |
|---|---|---|
| 31.2 | 66.6 | 43.7 |
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.
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.