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# llava-1.5-7b-hf

> Reference llava-1.5-7b-hf checkpoint and architecture details for NeMo AutoModel, with model-family information, setup guidance, and upstream resources.

[LLaVA](https://llava-vl.github.io/) (Large Language and Vision Assistant) is a pioneering open-source multimodal model connecting a vision encoder to a language model via a projection layer. Multiple versions and variants are supported via the `llava-hf` organization on Hugging Face.

Use this page as a checkpoint and architecture reference. Set up NeMo AutoModel with the
[latest container](https://catalog.ngc.nvidia.com/orgs/nvidia/containers/nemo-automodel) or follow the
[installation instructions](/get-started/installation).

## Model Reference

### Model Architecture

| Property                  | Value                                                                 |
| ------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Task                      | Image-Text-to-Text                                                    |
| Architecture              | `LlavaForConditionalGeneration` / `LlavaNextForConditionalGeneration` |
| Parameters                | 7B                                                                    |
| Hugging Face Organization | [llava-hf](https://huggingface.co/llava-hf)                           |

* `LlavaForConditionalGeneration` - LLaVA 1.5
* `LlavaNextForConditionalGeneration` - LLaVA-NeXT / 1.6
* `LlavaNextVideoForConditionalGeneration` - LLaVA-NeXT-Video
* `LlavaOnevisionForConditionalGeneration` - LLaVA-OneVision

### Available Models

| Model        | HF ID                                                                         |
| ------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| LLaVA 1.5 7B | [`llava-hf/llava-1.5-7b-hf`](https://huggingface.co/llava-hf/llava-1.5-7b-hf) |

## Related Resources

* [VLM Fine-Tuning Guide](/recipes-e2e-examples/gemma-3-3n)