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SmolDocling 256M

Hugging Face: ds4sd/SmolDocling-256M-preview · checked 2026-10-13

Preview predecessor of Granite Docling.

Datasheet

Maker
IBM Research / Hugging Face
Parameters
256 MVerifiedsafetensors.total from the HF API Source
Licence
CDLA-Permissive-2.0Verified
Access
Public download
Task (HF pipeline)
image-text-to-text
First published on HF
2025-02-12
Last updated on HF
2025-09-17
Weights in memory
0.5 GB at 16-bit · 0.2 GB at ~4.85 bitsEstimateParameters × bits ÷ 8. Excludes context cache and runtime overhead; not every model has a 4-bit build.

Benchmark

Not yet measured
olmOCR-Bench, overall

No comparable public score for this benchmark yet. We will not estimate one.

The description summarises the model card at https://huggingface.co/ds4sd/SmolDocling-256M-preview. Parameters and licence are read from the Hugging Face API; the weights-in-memory line is our arithmetic, not a measurement.