OneVision-Encoder

OneVision-Encoder is an LLM-aligned vision transformer specifically optimized for Large Multimodal Models (LMMs). It is a core component of the LLaVA-OneVision-2 series and is further detailed in the technical report OneVision-Encoder: Codec-Aligned Sparsity as a Foundational Principle for Multimodal Intelligence.

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Key Features

• LLM-Aligned Architecture: Unlike standard vision backbones, this model is specifically optimized for Large Multimodal Models (LMMs), ensuring seamless feature alignment and superior performance when connected to language models.
• True Native Resolution: Supports dynamic, fully native resolution inputs directly. It processes images and videos in their original aspect ratios without the need for tiling, cropping, padding, or resizing hacks.
• Arbitrary Frame Support: Capable of processing video inputs with any number of frames (variable length). It breaks the constraint of fixed-frame inputs, allowing for flexible long-context video understanding limited only by memory.
• Codec-Style Input Processing: Implements a "OneVision" mechanism that treats video like a codec stream—sampling dense frames sparsely (selecting important patches from many frames) rather than the traditional approach of sampling sparse frames densely.
• 3D Rotary Position Embedding: Uses a 4:6:6 split for temporal, height, and width dimensions to capture complex spatiotemporal relationships across arbitrary sequence lengths.

Downstream Tasks

• Video benchmarks: MVBench, VideoMME, Perception Test
• Image understanding: DocVQA, ChartQA, OCRBench
• Action recognition: SSv2, UCF101, Kinetics

Quick Start

[!IMPORTANT] Transformers Version Compatibility:

• ✅ transformers==4.57.3 (Recommended): Works with AutoModel.from_pretrained()
• ⚠️ transformers>=5.0.0: Not currently supported. We are actively working on a fix.

Note on Inputs: While the model is pre-trained with the configurations below, it supports dynamic native resolution and arbitrary frame counts during inference:

• Pre-training Image Base: 448×448
• Pre-training Video Base: 224×224 (256 tokens/frame)
• Inference: Supports variable resolutions and frame lengths.

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

# Load model and preprocessor
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(
    "lmms-lab-encoder/onevision-encoder-large-lang",
    trust_remote_code=True,
    attn_implementation="flash_attention_2"
).to("cuda").eval()

preprocessor = AutoImageProcessor.from_pretrained(
    "lmms-lab-encoder/onevision-encoder-large-lang",
    trust_remote_code=True
)

# Image inference: [B, C, H, W]
image = Image.open("path/to/your/image.jpg")  # Replace with your image path
pixel_values = preprocessor(images=image, return_tensors="pt")["pixel_values"].to("cuda")
with torch.no_grad():
    outputs = model(pixel_values)
    # outputs.last_hidden_state: [B, num_patches, hidden_size]
    # outputs.pooler_output: [B, hidden_size]

# Video inference: [B, C, T, H, W] with patch_positions
num_frames, target_frames = 16, 64
patch_size = 14
# Load video frames and preprocess each frame (replace with your video frame paths)
frames = [Image.open(f"path/to/frame_{i}.jpg") for i in range(num_frames)]
video_pixel_values = preprocessor(images=frames, return_tensors="pt")["pixel_values"]
# Reshape from [T, C, H, W] to [B, C, T, H, W]
video = video_pixel_values.unsqueeze(0).permute(0, 2, 1, 3, 4).to("cuda")

# Build patch_positions for temporal sampling: [B, num_frames * frame_tokens, 3]
frame_pos = torch.linspace(0, target_frames - 1, num_frames).long().cuda()  # [T]
grid_h, grid_w = video.shape[-2] // patch_size, video.shape[-1] // patch_size  # patch grid
frame_tokens = grid_h * grid_w

t_positions = frame_pos[:, None].repeat(1, frame_tokens).reshape(-1)  # [T * frame_tokens]
h_positions = torch.arange(grid_h, device="cuda").repeat_interleave(grid_w)
h_positions = h_positions.repeat(num_frames)  # [T * frame_tokens]
w_positions = torch.arange(grid_w, device="cuda").repeat(grid_h)
w_positions = w_positions.repeat(num_frames)  # [T * frame_tokens]

patch_positions = torch.stack([t_positions, h_positions, w_positions], dim=-1).unsqueeze(0)

with torch.no_grad():
  outputs = model(video, patch_positions=patch_positions)

Model Properties

Citation

@inproceedings{LLaVA-OneVision-2,
  title={LLaVA-OneVision-2},
  author={llava-onevision contributors},
  booktitle={arXiv},
  year={2026}
}

@article{tang2026onevisionencoder,
  title={OneVision-Encoder: Codec-Aligned Sparsity as a Foundational Principle for Multimodal Intelligence},
  author={Tang, Feilong and An, Xiang and Yan, Yunyao and Xie, Yin and Qin, Bin and Yang, Kaicheng and Shen, Yifei and Zhang, Yuanhan and Li, Chunyuan and Feng, Shikun and Chen, Changrui and Tan, Huajie and Hu, Ming and Zhang, Manyuan and Li, Bo and Feng, Ziyong and Liu, Ziwei and Ge, Zongyuan and Deng, Jiankang},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.08683},
  year={2026}
}