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# Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512

> Reference Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512 checkpoint and architecture details for NeMo AutoModel, with model-family information, setup guidance, and upstream resources.

[Ministral3](https://mistral.ai/news/ministraux/) is Mistral AI's efficient small model series. The vision-capable variants support image-text inputs for multimodal tasks.

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).

## Fine-Tune Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512

From the repository root, run:

```bash
uv run automodel examples/vlm_finetune/mistral/ministral3_3b_medpix.yaml --nproc-per-node 8
```

## Choose a Workflow

| Goal                                                   | Start Here                                                                                                                                                          |
| ------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) - Ministral3 3B on MedPix | Use [ministral3\_3b\_medpix.yaml](https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Automodel/blob/main/examples/vlm_finetune/mistral/ministral3_3b_medpix.yaml). Dataset: MedPix-VQA. |

## Model Reference

### Model Architecture

| Property                  | Value                                         |
| ------------------------- | --------------------------------------------- |
| Task                      | Image-Text-to-Text                            |
| Architecture              | `Mistral3ForConditionalGeneration`            |
| Parameters                | 3B                                            |
| Hugging Face Organization | [mistralai](https://huggingface.co/mistralai) |

### Available Models

| Model                         | HF ID                                                                                                       |
| ----------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Ministral-3 3B Instruct       | [`mistralai/Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512`](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512)   |
| Ministral-3-3B-Reasoning-2512 | [`mistralai/Ministral-3-3B-Reasoning-2512`](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Ministral-3-3B-Reasoning-2512) |

## Related Resources

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