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Granite 4.0 3B Vision

granite-4.0-3b-vision

Open SourceMultimodal

About

IBM Granite 4.0 3B Vision is a vision-language model (VLM) for enterprise-grade document data extraction. Delivered as a LoRA adapter on top of Granite 4.0 Micro, allowing a single deployment to support both multimodal document understanding and text-only workloads. Integrates with Docling for document conversion pipelines. Apache 2.0.

Granite 4.0 3B Vision has a 128K-token context window.

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalReasoningFunction CallingTool UseStructured OutputsCode Execution

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Specifications

FamilyGranite Vision
Released2026-04-01
Parameters3B
Context128K
ArchitectureLoRA adapter on Granite 4.0 Micro (3B dense)

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