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NeVA Models by NVIDIA AI

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3 models2024

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Details

ResearcherNVIDIA AI
Commercial useCommercial use: conditional
Models3
Released2024

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About

NeVA is a family of multimodal vision-language models developed by NVIDIA within the NeMo Multimodal ecosystem. These models integrate large language models, such as NVGPT or LLaMA, with a vision encoder to interpret and generate human-like responses to both text and images. The NeVA models undergo a two-stage training process involving feature alignment pre-training and end-to-end fine-tuning. They are ideal for tasks that require an advanced understanding of visual content and precise instruction following, showcasing capabilities akin to advanced multimodal models like GPT-4, even when presented with novel inputs. A specific variant, Video NeVA, expands its functionality to include video data processing by converting videos into sequences of image frames. Available in versions with 8B, 22B, and 43B parameters, NeVA models make use of NeMo's framework features for efficient training, including model parallelism and activation checkpointing. It is noteworthy that some NeVA models are restricted to non-commercial use 12.

Decision facts

Best fit
coding
Capability starting point
NeVA 43B
Lowest tracked input
Not tracked
Closest related family
NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL

Current Variants

Use-when guidance is based on each model's tracked capabilities, context window, release date, and replacement status.

2 in view1 retired
NeVA 43BCurrent

Use when the workload needs 43B parameters.

2024-0343B parameters
NeVA 8BCurrent

Use when the workload needs 8B parameters.

2024-038B parameters

Release Timeline

1 release group
2024-03
2 current · 1 retired
NeVA 22B
22B parameters
Archived
NeVA 43B
43B parameters
Current
NeVA 8B
8B parameters
Current

Specifications(3 models)

NeVA model specifications comparison
ModelReleasedParameters
NeVA 43B2024-0343B
NeVA 8B2024-038B

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