ImageShield-MMCF-2B-vl

ImageShield-MMCF — Multimodal Content Filter is a multimodal content-safety classifier built on top of Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct and trained on the ImageShield-Guardrail dataset. The model is designed to classify visual content as Safe or Unsafe, with a particular focus on detecting Not Safe for Work (NSFW) sensual content and other potentially sensitive visual content.

[!NOTE] This model is an experimental release and may exhibit unexpected behavior or reasoning artifacts in certain scenarios.

[!IMPORTANT] This model is intended for research and content-safety classification only. Any outputs generated by this model are the sole responsibility of the user. The authors and hosting platform disclaim all liability for generated content. Users must ensure safe, ethical, and lawful usage.

Key Highlights

• Qwen3-VL Foundation: Built on top of Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct.
• Multimodal Content Filter: Designed for visual content-safety classification.
• ImageShield-Guardrail Training Dataset: Trained on the ImageShield-Guardrail multimodal content-safety dataset.
• Safe / Unsafe Classification: Classifies visual content as either Safe or Unsafe.
• NSFW Sensual Content Detection: Focused on identifying potentially Not Safe for Work (NSFW) sensual content and related sensitive visual content.
• Zero-Tolerance Safety Classification: Uses a conservative classification policy that favors safety when the content is ambiguous.
• Structured Output: Produces a machine-readable JSON response containing a caption, classification, and reasoning.

Standard Instruction

You are a strict, zero-tolerance parental control content-safety guardrail classifier for visual media.

Your role is minor protection: any media containing suggestive, revealing, sexually provocative, or explicit visual elements must be flagged as NSFW.

STRICT ZERO-TOLERANCE CLASSIFICATION RULES:

1. Nudity & Exposure: Any full or partial nudity, exposed breasts, cleavage, buttocks, groin, or visible pubic area MUST be classified as NSFW.

2. Underwear & Swimwear: Thongs, G-strings, micro-bikinis, skimpy or revealing swimwear, bras, panties, lingerie, see-through clothing, or unbuttoned tops revealing undergarments or bare torsos MUST be classified as NSFW.

3. Poses & Suggestiveness: Sexually suggestive poses, seductive modeling, cleavage-emphasizing framing, fetish content, or explicit erotic themes MUST be classified as NSFW.

4. Artwork & Animation: Anime nudes, ecchi, hentai, suggestive illustrations, or 2D/3D stylized erotica MUST be classified as NSFW.

5. Classification Threshold: When in doubt, err on the side of caution and classify the content as NSFW.

Output strictly valid JSON with no extra conversational text, commentary, or markdown formatting outside the JSON object:

{
  "caption": "<Detailed, objective visual description of the subject, clothing, exposure, and pose>",
  "is_nsfw": true | false,
  "reason": "<Precise reason for classification based on clothing, exposure, or pose>",
  "nsfw": 1 | 0,
  "safe": 1 | 0
}

Quick Start with Transformers

pip install transformers
pip install accelerate

from transformers import Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration, AutoProcessor
import torch

model = Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
    "prithivMLmods/ImageShield-MMCF-2B-vl",
    torch_dtype="auto",
    device_map="auto"
)

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(
    "prithivMLmods/ImageShield-MMCF-2B-vl"
)

messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {
                "type": "image"
            },
            {
                "type": "text",
                "text": "Classify this image using the provided content-safety guardrail."
            }
        ],
    }
]

text = processor.apply_chat_template(
    messages,
    tokenize=False,
    add_generation_prompt=True
)

# Add image inputs according to your application pipeline.
inputs = processor(
    text=[text],
    images=[image],
    padding=True,
    return_tensors="pt"
).to(model.device)

generated_ids = model.generate(
    **inputs,
    max_new_tokens=256
)

output_text = processor.batch_decode(
    [
        out[len(inp):]
        for inp, out in zip(inputs.input_ids, generated_ids)
    ],
    skip_special_tokens=True,
    clean_up_tokenization_spaces=False
)

print(output_text[0])

Example Cards

Training Details

Intended Use

• Content Safety Classification: Classifying visual media as safe or unsafe.
• NSFW Sensual Content Detection: Supporting research into automated detection of potentially sensitive and sexually suggestive visual content.
• Parental Controls: Building conservative visual content-safety filtering systems.
• Content Moderation: Supporting automated safety classification pipelines.
• Multimodal Safety Research: Evaluating content-safety behavior in multimodal language models.
• Guardrail Development: Researching structured safety classification and filtering workflows.

Limitations

• Experimental Model: The model may produce incorrect or inconsistent classifications.
• False Positives: Benign content may occasionally be classified as unsafe due to the conservative classification threshold.
• False Negatives: Unsafe content may occasionally be missed.
• Context Sensitivity: Classification performance depends on image quality, visual context, and the provided instruction.
• Conservative Policy: The model intentionally uses a strict classification threshold and may flag content that would not be considered NSFW under less restrictive moderation policies.
• Automated Classification: The model should not be treated as a definitive legal or safety determination.

Acknowledgements

• Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct: Base multimodal model used for this project.

• ImageShield-Guardrail: Multimodal content-safety dataset used to train this model.

• TRL – Transformers Reinforcement Learning: TRL is a full-stack library providing tools for training transformer models with methods including Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), Reward Modeling, and more.

• Transformers: Transformers provides state-of-the-art machine learning models for text, computer vision, audio, video, and multimodal tasks, supporting both inference and training.