Foundry-VLM-1.3B-165M

A 1.3B parameter vision-language model trained on 165M image-caption samples, part of the VLA Foundry collection.

Model Description

• Architecture: ViT encoder (12 layers, 768 hidden dim, patch size 14, pixel-shuffle 2x) + Transformer decoder (24 layers, 2048 hidden dim, 16 heads)
• Parameters: 1.3B (non-embedding)
• Processor: SmolVLM2
• Training data: 165M image-caption pairs from DataComp-DR-1B
• LR schedule: Warmup + constant (no decay)
• LLM backbone: Initialized from Foundry-LLM-1.2B-800B

Earlier checkpoint of the Foundry VLM. Used as the vision-language backbone for the Foundry-VLA-1.7B action models.

Evaluation Results

COCO-val captioning:

BLEU-1	BLEU-2	BLEU-3	BLEU-4	ROUGE-L	CIDEr
57.25	37.12	23.23	14.44	37.13	50.17

Usage

git clone https://github.com/TRI-ML/vla_foundry.git
cd vla_foundry
pip install -e .

from vla_foundry.models.base_model import BaseModel
model = BaseModel.from_pretrained("TRI-ML/Foundry-VLM-1.3B-165M")

Links

• Project page: tri-ml.github.io/vla_foundry
• Paper: VLA Foundry (arXiv 2604.19728)
• Code: github.com/TRI-ML/vla_foundry
• Collection: VLA Foundry collection