Model Card for smolvlm2-256m-FoodExtract-Vision-v2-without-peft-stage-2

This model is the Stage 2 (Final) version of a full fine-tuning pipeline based on HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM2-256M-Video-Instruct. It is specialized in structured food extraction, returning valid JSON containing food classification, titles, and item lists.

Training Strategy: This model was trained using a Full Fine-Tuning (Without PEFT) approach.

• Stage 1: (Previous step) Trained with a frozen vision encoder to align the LLM with the JSON structure.
• Stage 2 (This Model): Unfrozen Vision Encoder. The entire model (Vision + LLM) was fine-tuned to significantly improve the visual recognition of specific food items and ingredients.

Quick start

This model relies on a specific system prompt and user prompt structure to output the correct JSON format.

import torch
from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForImageTextToText
from PIL import Image
import requests

# 1) Load fine-tuned model and processor
model_id = "berkeruveyik/smolvlm2-256m-FoodExtract-Vision-v2-without-peft-stage-2"  # Replace with your model ID

print("Loading model and processor...")
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained(
    model_id,
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
    device_map="auto",
)
model.eval()
print("Model ready!")

# 2) Prompts
SYSTEM_MESSAGE = """You are an expert food and drink image extractor.
You provide structured data to visual inputs classifying them as edible food/drink or not.
as well as titling the image with a simple simple food/drink related caption.
Finally you extract any and all visible food/drink items to lists."""

USER_PROMPT = """Classify the given input image into food or not, and if edible food or drink items are present, extract them into lists. If no food/drink items are visible, return an empty list.

Only return valid JSON in the following form:

```json
{
  "is_food": 0,
  "image_title": "",
  "food_items": [],
  "drink_items": []
}
```"""

# 3) Load image
image_url = "https://img.freepik.com/free-psd/roasted-chicken-dinner-platter-delicious-feast_632498-25445.jpg"

print(f"\nLoading image from: {image_url}")
resp = requests.get(image_url, stream=True, headers={"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0"})
resp.raise_for_status()
image = Image.open(resp.raw).convert("RGB")

# 4) Prepare inputs
messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "image", "image": image},
            {"type": "text", "text": SYSTEM_MESSAGE + "\n\n" + USER_PROMPT},
        ],
    }
]

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

inputs = processor(
    text=text,
    images=image,
    return_tensors="pt",
)

# Move tensors to model device and dtype
inputs = {k: v.to(model.device) for k, v in inputs.items()}
inputs = {
    k: (v.to(dtype=model.dtype) if torch.is_floating_point(v) and v.dtype == torch.float32 else v)
    for k, v in inputs.items()
}

# 5) Generate
print("\nGenerating output...")
with torch.no_grad():
    generated_ids = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=256, do_sample=False)

# 6) Decode only the newly generated tokens
prompt_len = inputs["input_ids"].shape[1]
output_text = processor.batch_decode(
    generated_ids[:, prompt_len:],
    skip_special_tokens=True
)[0]

print("\n" + "="*60)
print("OUTPUT:")
print("="*60)
print(output_text)
print("="*60)

Training procedure

This model represents the second stage of a full fine-tuning process. By unfreezing the vision encoder in this stage, the model learns to correlate fine-grained visual features (textures, shapes of specific dishes) with the textual food items, resulting in higher accuracy than Stage 1 or frozen-encoder approaches.

Framework versions

• TRL: 0.27.2
• Transformers: 5.0.0
• Pytorch: 2.9.0+cu126
• Datasets: 4.0.0
• Tokenizers: 0.22.2

Citations

Cite TRL as:

@misc{vonwerra2022trl,
    title        = {{TRL: Transformer Reinforcement Learning}},
    author       = {Leandro von Werra and Younes Belkada and Lewis Tunstall and Edward Beeching and Tristan Thrush and Nathan Lambert and Shengyi Huang and Kashif Rasul and Quentin Gallou{\'e}dec},
    year         = 2020,
    journal      = {GitHub repository},
    publisher    = {GitHub},
    howpublished = {\url{[https://github.com/huggingface/trl](https://github.com/huggingface/trl)}}
}