Model reference · open weights

Sa2VA-Qwen3-VL-SAM3

LLMs ByteDance Vision + text 1 build Open weights 395 dl/mo

Sa2VA-Qwen3-VL-SAM3 is an open-weight language model from ByteDance. Sa2VA-Qwen3-VL-4B-SAM3 (FP32) weighs 10.6 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB.

  • Sa2VA-Qwen3-VL-SAM3 is a 5.3B parameter image-text-to-text model developed by ByteDance.
  • It combines the Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct architecture with a SAM3 grounding encoder to perform dense image and video referring segmentation alongside open-ended chat.
  • The model is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license.

Summary of the ByteDance/Sa2VA-Qwen3-VL-4B-SAM3 model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byByteDance
Released2026-06-10
Parameters5.3B
VRAM10.6 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for Sa2VA-Qwen3-VL-4B-SAM3 (FP32)

10.6 GBweights, file size
147 MBcache per 1K tokens
2.0 GBruntime overhead, at least
262,144 tokenscontext max
CardRequests at onceContext maxMemory
8K each32K each
RTX 3060 12 GB———11.6 GB
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB2—18K15.4 GB
RTX 3090 24 GB8271K23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GB8271K23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GB153121K31.0 GB
L40S 48 GB256207K44.0 GB
A100 80 GB5413all 256K78.2 GB
H100 80 GB5012all 256K78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB6315all 256K93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified7418all 256K107 GB
H200 141 GB10025all 256K138 GB
B200 180 GB13132all 256K176 GB
2× RTX 3060 12 GB
tensor parallel
7157K11.6 GB a card
2× RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
tensor parallel
133107K15.4 GB a card
Memory needed at each load
Requests at once8K tokens each32K tokens each
113.8 GB17.4 GB
518.6 GB36.8 GB
822.3 GB51.3 GB
1631.9 GB89.9 GB
3251.3 GB167 GB
6489.9 GB322 GB

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

From the model card

What ByteDance says about Sa2VA-Qwen3-VL-SAM3

Read the model card

Sa2VA-Qwen3-VL-4B-SAM3 is a Sa2VA model built on Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct with a SAM3 PVS-tracker grounding encoder. The MLLM predicts a [SEG] token whose hidden state conditions the SAM3 mask decoder, producing dense image and video referring segmentation alongside open-ended chat.

This checkpoint is self-contained: the SAM3 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
83.7 / 84.7 / 81.979.4 / 83.2 / 76.083.0 / 83.0

Video referring segmentation (J&F):

MeViS (val_u)ReVOSRef-DAVIS17
65.366.377.1

Grounded conversation generation (GCG, val):

AP50mIoURecall
37.170.149.4

Usage

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

path = "HarborYuan/Sa2VA-Qwen3-VL-4B-SAM3"
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(
    path, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16, trust_remote_code=True, low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
).eval().cuda()
processor = AutoProcessor.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.",
    processor=processor,
)
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).

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

Notes

  • SAM3 grounding input resolution is 1008.
  • 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.

© 2026 AxForge · EU-hosted AI infrastructure Pricing Docs Trust Privacy Terms