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UniPic2-Metaquery

LLMs Skywork Omni (any→any) 1 build Open weights 21 dl/mo

UniPic2-Metaquery is an open-weight language model from Skywork. UniPic2-Metaquery-9B (BF16) weighs 6.9 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

  • UniPic2-Metaquery-9B is a unified multimodal model developed by Skywork that supports image understanding, text-to-image generation, and image editing.
  • It is built on Qwen2.5-VL-Instruct and SD3.5-Medium, requires approximately 40 GB of VRAM to run, and is released under the MIT license.

Summary of the Skywork/UniPic2-Metaquery-9B model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released bySkywork
Released2025-08-11
VRAM6.9 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for UniPic2-Metaquery-9B (BF16)

6.9 GBweights, file size
762 MBruntime overhead, at least

How much memory each request adds isn't estimated yet for this architecture. The weights need at least the cards below, plus room for the context.

CardWeights alone
RTX 3060 12 GBfits
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GBfits
RTX 3090 24 GBfits
RTX 4090 24 GBfits
RTX 5090 32 GBfits
L40S 48 GBfits
A100 80 GBfits
H100 80 GBfits
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GBfits
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unifiedfits
H200 141 GBfits
B200 180 GBfits

From the model card

What Skywork says about UniPic2-Metaquery

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🌌 UniPic2-Metaquery-9B

📖 Introduction

UniPic2-Metaquery-9B is an unified multimodal model built on Qwen2.5-VL-Instruct and SD3.5-Medium. It delivers end-to-end image understanding, text-to-image (T2I) generation, and image editing. Requires approximately 40 GB VRAM. For NVIDIA RTX 40-series GPUs, we recommend using the Skywork/UniPic2-Metaquery-Flash

📊 Benchmarks

UniPic2-Metaquery-9B w/o GRPO achieves competitive results across a variety of vision-language tasks:

TaskScore
🧠 GenEval0.86
🖼️ DPG-Bench83.63
✂️ GEditBench-EN6.90
🧪 ImgEdit-Bench4.10

🧠 Usage

1. Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/SkyworkAI/UniPic
cd UniPic-2

2. Set Up the Environment

# Requires ~40GB VRAM; for NVIDIA RTX 40-series GPUs, please use the Flash version
conda create -n unipic python=3.10
conda activate unipic
pip install -r requirements.txt

3.Text-to-Image Generation

import torch
from PIL import Image
from unipicv2.pipeline_stable_diffusion_3_kontext import StableDiffusion3KontextPipeline
from unipicv2.transformer_sd3_kontext import SD3Transformer2DKontextModel
from unipicv2.stable_diffusion_3_conditioner import StableDiffusion3Conditioner
from transformers import Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration, Qwen2_5_VLProcessor
from diffusers import FlowMatchEulerDiscreteScheduler, AutoencoderKL

# Load model components
pretrained_model_name_or_path = "Skywork/UniPic2-Metaquery-9B"

transformer = SD3Transformer2DKontextModel.from_pretrained(
    pretrained_model_name_or_path, subfolder="transformer", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16).cuda()

vae = AutoencoderKL.from_pretrained(
    pretrained_model_name_or_path, subfolder="vae", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16).cuda()

# Load Qwen2.5-VL model
lmm = Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
    "Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct",
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
    attn_implementation="flash_attention_2").cuda()

processor = Qwen2_5_VLProcessor.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct")
processor.chat_template = processor.chat_template.replace(
    "{% if loop.first and message['role'] != 'system' %}system\nYou are a helpful assistant.\n{% endif %}",
    "")

conditioner = StableDiffusion3Conditioner.from_pretrained(
    pretrained_model_name_or_path, subfolder="conditioner", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16).cuda()

scheduler = FlowMatchEulerDiscreteScheduler.from_pretrained(pretrained_model_name_or_path, subfolder="scheduler")

# Create pipeline (note: text encoders set to None)
pipeline = StableDiffusion3KontextPipeline(
    transformer=transformer, vae=vae,
    text_encoder=None, tokenizer=None,
    text_encoder_2=None, tokenizer_2=None,
    text_encoder_3=None, tokenizer_3=None,
    scheduler=scheduler)

# Prepare prompts
prompt = 'a pig with wings and a top hat flying over a happy futuristic scifi city'
negative_prompt = 'blurry, low quality, low resolution, distorted, deformed, broken content, missing parts, damaged details, artifacts, glitch, noise, pixelated, grainy, compression artifacts, bad composition, wrong proportion, incomplete editing, unfinished, unedited areas.'

messages = [[{"role": "user", "content": [{"type": "text", "text": f'Generate an image: {txt}'}]}]
            for txt in [prompt, negative_prompt]]

texts = [processor.apply_chat_template(msg, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True) for msg in messages]
inputs = processor(text=texts, images=None, videos=None, padding=True, return_tensors="pt").to("cuda")

# Process with Qwen2.5-VL
input_ids, attention_mask = inputs.input_ids, inputs.attention_mask
input_ids = torch.cat([input_ids, input_ids.new_zeros(2, conditioner.config.num_queries)], dim=1)
attention_mask = torch.cat([attention_mask, attention_mask.new_ones(2, conditioner.config.num_queries)], dim=1)
inputs_embeds = lmm.get_input_embeddings()(input_ids)
inputs_embeds[:, -conditioner.config.num_queries:] = conditioner.meta_queries[None].expand(2, -1, -1)

outputs = lmm.model(inputs_embeds=inputs_embeds, attention_mask=attention_mask, use_cache=False)
hidden_states = outputs.last_hidden_state[:, -conditioner.config.num_queries:]
prompt_embeds, pooled_prompt_embeds = conditioner(hidden_states)

# Generate image
image = pipeline(
    prompt_embeds=prompt_embeds[:1],
    pooled_prompt_embeds=pooled_prompt_embeds[:1],
    negative_prompt_embeds=prompt_embeds[1:],
    negative_pooled_prompt_embeds=pooled_prompt_embeds[1:],
    height=512, width=384,
    num_inference_steps=50,
    guidance_scale=3.5,
    generator=torch.Generator(device=transformer.device).manual_seed(42)
).images[0]

image.save("text2image.png")

4. Image Editing

# Load image for editing
image = Image.open("text2image.png")
image = fix_longer_edge(image, image_size=512)

prompt = "remove the pig's hat"
negative_prompt = "blurry, low quality, low resolution, distorted, deformed, broken content, missing parts, damaged details, artifacts, glitch, noise, pixelated, grainy, compression artifacts, bad composition, wrong proportion, incomplete editing, unfinished, unedited areas."

# Prepare messages with image input
messages = [[{"role": "user", "content": [{"type": "image", "image": image}, {"type": "text", "text": txt}]}]
            for txt in [prompt, negative_prompt]]

texts = [processor.apply_chat_template(msg, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True) for msg in messages]

min_pixels = max_pixels = int(image.height * 28 / 32 * image.width * 28 / 32)
inputs = processor(
    text=texts, images=[image]*2,
    min_pixels=min_pixels, max_pixels=max_pixels,
    videos=None, padding=True, return_tensors="pt").to("cuda")

# Process with vision understanding
input_ids, attention_mask, pixel_values, image_grid_thw = \
    inputs.input_ids, inputs.attention_mask, inputs.pixel_values, inputs.image_grid_thw

input_ids = tor

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