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LensVLM-9B

LensVLM is a 9B Vision Language Model (VLM) that scans compressed images of text, then selectively expands only the relevant pages to their uncompressed form via learned tools.

—Paper: LensVLM: Selective Context Expansion for Compressed Visual Representation of Text
—Code: https://github.com/apple-aiml-research/ml-lensvlm

License

All ML model files in this repository, including Apple's modifications to the Qwen model, are provided under the terms of the Apple Machine Learning Research Model License.

The source code that accompanies this model is distributed separately and is provided under the terms of the Apple Sample Code License.

Usage

Install the LensVLM code and run inference:

bash

git clone https://github.com/apple-aiml-research/ml-lensvlm
cd ml-lensvlm
pip install -r requirements.txt
python scripts/run_demo.py --model apple/LensVLM-9B

For a custom document:

bash

python demo.py \
    --model apple/LensVLM-9B \
    --text_file document.txt \
    --question "What is the main finding?" \
    --compression 10x

Compression options: 5x, 10x, 15x. See the repository README for data preparation and evaluation.

Citation

bibtex

@article{xie2026lensvlm,
  title={LensVLM: Selective Context Expansion for Compressed Visual Representation of Text},
  author={Xie, Roy and Friedman, Dan and Yu, Donghan and Pan, Bowen and Fifty, Christopher and Kim, Jang-Hyun and Du, Xianzhi and Gan, Zhe and Rathod, Vivek and Dhingra, Bhuwan},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.07019},
  year={2026}
}