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# Ministral-3-14B-Reasoning-2512

> Use NeMo AutoModel to fine-tune Ministral-3-14B-Reasoning-2512 for VLM workflows with checked-in image-text-to-text recipes and documented distributed settings.

[Ministral-3-14B-Reasoning-2512](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Ministral-3-14B-Reasoning-2512) has a checked-in NeMo AutoModel recipe for image-text-to-text.
The Hugging Face configuration declares the `Mistral3ForConditionalGeneration` architecture.

## Fine-Tune Ministral-3-14B-Reasoning-2512

Follow the [installation instructions](/nemo/automodel/v0.7/get-started/installation), then run the recipe from the repository root:

```bash
automodel examples/vlm_finetune/mistral/ministral3_14b_medpix.yaml --nproc-per-node 8
```

## Choose a Workflow

| Goal                                  | Start Here                                                                                                                                     |
| ------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Run the primary recipe for this model | Use the [recipe configuration](https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Automodel/blob/r0.7.0/examples/vlm_finetune/mistral/ministral3_14b_medpix.yaml). |
| Prepare your environment              | Follow the [installation instructions](/nemo/automodel/v0.7/get-started/installation).                                                                             |

### Configuration

| Setting  | Configuration                |
| -------- | ---------------------------- |
| Hardware | -                            |
| Strategy | FSDP2; tp_size=1, cp_size=1  |
| Nodes    | -                            |
| Features | Checkpointing (enabled=true) |
| Advanced | torch.bfloat16               |

## Model Reference

### Model Architecture

| Property     | Value                              |
| ------------ | ---------------------------------- |
| Task         | Image-text-to-text                 |
| Architecture | `Mistral3ForConditionalGeneration` |

### Available Models

* [`mistralai/Ministral-3-14B-Reasoning-2512`](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Ministral-3-14B-Reasoning-2512)

## Related Resources

* [Vision-language model fine-tuning guide](/nemo/automodel/v0.7/recipes-e2e-examples/gemma-3-3n)