Model reference · open weights
Skywork-UniPic is an open-weight language model from Skywork. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.
Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.
What it is
| Maker | Skywork |
|---|---|
| Type | Language models |
| Task | Omni (any→any) |
| Runs with | transformers |
| Released | 2025-07-29 |
| Popularity | 25 downloads / month |
| Licence | Open weights |
About
Skywork-UniPic is a unified autoregressive multimodal model with 1.5 billion parameters, capable of handling three key vision-language tasks within a single architecture:
Trained from scratch on a large-scale multimodal corpus, UniPic is designed to support a wide range of unified image-text tasks efficiently.
Skywork-UniPic achieves competitive results across a variety of vision-language tasks:
| Task | Score |
|---|---|
| 🧠 GenEval | 0.86 |
| 🖼️ DPG-Bench | 85.5 |
| ✂️ GEditBench-EN | 5.83 |
| 🧪 ImgEdit-Bench | 3.49 |
git clone https://github.com/SkyworkAI/UniPic
cd UniPic-1
conda create -n unipic python=3.10.14
conda activate unipic
pip install -r requirements.txt
export PYTHONPATH=./:$PYTHONPATH
python scripts/text2image.py configs/models/qwen2_5_1_5b_kl16_mar_h.py \
--checkpoint checkpoint/pytorch_model.bin \
--image_size 1024 \
--prompt "A glossy-coated golden retriever stands on the park lawn beside a life-sized penguin statue." \
--output output.jpg
The image editing feature within this unified model is an exploratory module at the forefront of research. And it is not yet production-ready.
export PYTHONPATH=./:$PYTHONPATH
python scripts/image_edit.py configs/models/qwen2_5_1_5b_kl16_mar_h.py \
--checkpoint checkpoint/pytorch_model.bin \
--image_size 1024 \
--image data/sample.png \
--prompt "Replace the stars with the candle." \
--output output.jpg
This model is released under the MIT License.
If you use Skywork-UniPic in your research, please cite:
@misc{wang2025skyworkunipicunifiedautoregressive,
title={Skywork UniPic: Unified Autoregressive Modeling for Visual Understanding and Generation},
author={Peiyu Wang and Yi Peng and Yimeng Gan and Liang Hu and Tianyidan Xie and Xiaokun Wang and Yichen Wei and Chuanxin Tang and Bo Zhu and Changshi Li and Hongyang Wei and Eric Li and Xuchen Song and Yang Liu and Yahui Zhou},
year={2025},
eprint={2508.03320},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CV},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03320},
}
@misc{wei2025skyworkunipic20building,
title={Skywork UniPic 2.0: Building Kontext Model with Online RL for Unified Multimodal Model},
author={Hongyang Wei and Baixin Xu and Hongbo Liu and Cyrus Wu and Jie Liu and Yi Peng and Peiyu Wang and Zexiang Liu and Jingwen He and Yidan Xietian and Chuanxin Tang and Zidong Wang and Yichen Wei and Liang Hu and Boyi Jiang and William Li and Ying He and Yang Liu and Xuchen Song and Eric Li and Yahui Zhou},
year={2025},
eprint={2509.04548},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CV},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04548},
}
From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.
How it works
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys skywork-unipic for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (skywork-unipic below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)
$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"skywork-unipic","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'
Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 5M tokens/month currently included with every new account at launch.