license: apache-2.0
pipeline_tag: image-text-to-text
Intern-S1-mini
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Introduction
We introduce Intern-S1-mini, a lightweight open-source multimodal reasoning model based on the same techniques as Intern-S1. Built upon an 8B dense language model (Qwen3) and a 0.3B Vision encoder (InternViT), Intern-S1-mini has been further pretrained on 5 trillion tokens of multimodal data, including over 2.5 trillion scientific-domain tokens. This enables the model to retain strong general capabilities while excelling in specialized scientific domains such as interpreting chemical structures, understanding protein sequences, and planning compound synthesis routes, making Intern-S1-mini to be a capable research assistant for real-world scientific applications.
Features
Strong performance across language and vision reasoning benchmarks, especially scientific tasks.
Continuously pretrained on a massive 5T token dataset, with over 50% specialized scientific data, embedding deep domain expertise.
Dynamic tokenizer enables native understanding of molecular formulas and protein sequences.
Performance
We evaluate the Intern-S1-mini on various benchmarks including general datasets and scientific datasets. We report the performance comparison with the recent VLMs and LLMs below.
| Intern-S1-mini | Qwen3-8B | GLM-4.1V | MiMo-VL-7B-RL-2508 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General | MMLU-Pro | 74.78 | 73.7 | 57.1 | 73.93 |
| MMMU | 72.33 | N/A | 69.9 | 70.4 | |
| MMStar | 65.2 | N/A | 71.5 | 72.9 | |
| GPQA | 65.15 | 62 | 50.32 | 60.35 | |
| AIME2024 | 84.58 | 76 | 36.2 | 72.6 | |
| AIME2025 | 80 | 67.3 | 32 | 64.4 | |
| MathVision | 51.41 | N/A | 53.9 | 54.5 | |
| MathVista | 70.3 | N/A | 80.7 | 79.4 | |
| IFEval | 81.15 | 85 | 71.53 | 71.4 | |
| Scientific | SFE | 35.84 | N/A | 43.2 | 43.9 |
| Physics | 28.76 | N/A | 4.3 | 23.9 | |
| SmolInstruct | 32.2 | 17.6 | 18.1 | 16.11 | |
| ChemBench | 76.47 | 61.1 | 56.2 | 66.78 | |
| MatBench | 61.55 | 45.24 | 54.3 | 46.9 | |
| MicroVQA | 56.62 | N/A | 50.2 | 50.96 | |
| ProteinLMBench | 58.47 | 59.1 | 58.3 | 59.8 | |
| MSEarthMCQ | 58.12 | N/A | 50.3 | 47.3 | |
| XLRS-Bench | 51.63 | N/A | 49.8 | 12.29 |
We use the OpenCompass and VLMEvalkit to evaluate all models.
Quick Start
Sampling Parameters
We recommend using the following hyperparameters to ensure better results
top_p = 1.0
top_k = 50
min_p = 0.0
temperature = 0.8
Transformers
The following provides demo code illustrating how to generate based on text and multimodal inputs.
Please use transformers>=4.55.2 to ensure the model works normally.
Text input
from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForCausalLM
import torch
model_name = "internlm/Intern-S1-mini"
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_name, trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_name, device_map="auto", torch_dtype="auto", trust_remote_code=True)
messages = [
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{"type": "text", "text": "tell me about an interesting physical phenomenon."},
],
}
]
inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(messages, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=True, return_dict=True, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device, dtype=torch.bfloat16)
generate_ids = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=32768)
decoded_output = processor.decode(generate_ids[0, inputs["input_ids"].shape[1] :], skip_special_tokens=True)
print(decoded_output)
Image input
from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForCausalLM
import torch
model_name = "internlm/Intern-S1-mini"
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_name, trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_name, device_map="auto", torch_dtype="auto", trust_remote_code=True)
messages = [
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{"type": "image", "url": "http://images.cocodataset.org/val2017/000000039769.jpg"},
{"type": "text", "text": "Please describe the image explicitly."},
],
}
]
inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(messages, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=True, return_dict=True, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device, dtype=torch.bfloat16)
generate_ids = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=32768)
decoded_output = processor.decode(generate_ids[0, inputs["input_ids"].shape[1] :], skip_special_tokens=True)
print(decoded_output)
Video input
Please ensure that the decord video decoding library is installed via pip install decord. To avoid OOM, please install flash_attention and use at least 2 GPUS.
from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForCausalLM
import torch
model_name = "internlm/Intern-S1-mini"
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_name, trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_name, device_map="auto", torch_dtype="auto", trust_remote_code=True)
messages = [
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{
"type": "video",
"url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/hf-internal-testing/fixtures_videos/resolve/main/tennis.mp4",
},
{"type": "text", "text": "What type of shot is the man performing?"},
],
}
]
inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(
messages,
return_tensors="pt",
add_generation_prompt=True,
video_load_backend="decord",
tokenize=True,
return_dict=True,
).to(model.device, dtype=torch.float16)
generate_ids = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=32768)
decoded_output = processor.decode(generate_ids[0, inputs["input_ids"].shape[1] :], skip_special_tokens=True)
print(decoded_output)
Serving
The minimum hardware requirements for deploying Intern-S1 series models are:
| Model | A100(GPUs) | H800(GPUs) | H100(GPUs) | H200(GPUs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| internlm/Intern-S1-mini | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| internlm/Intern-S1-mini-FP8 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 |
You can utilize one of the following LLM inference frameworks to create an OpenAI compatible server:
lmdeploy(>=0.9.2)
lmdeploy serve api_server internlm/Intern-S1-mini --reasoning-parser intern-s1 --tool-call-parser intern-s1
vllm
vllm serve internlm/Intern-S1-mini --trust-remote-code
sglang
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
--model-path internlm/Intern-S1-mini \
--trust-remote-code \
--grammar-backend none
ollama for local deployment:
# install ollama
curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
# fetch model
ollama pull internlm/interns1-mini
# run model
ollama run internlm/interns1-mini
# then use openai client to call on http://localhost:11434/v1
Advanced Usage
Tool Calling
Many Large Language Models (LLMs) now feature Tool Calling, a powerful capability that allows them to extend their functionality by interacting with external tools and APIs. This enables models to perform tasks like fetching up-to-the-minute information, running code, or calling functions within other applications.
A key advantage for developers is that a growing number of open-source LLMs are designed to be compatible with the OpenAI API. This means you can leverage the same familiar syntax and structure from the OpenAI library to implement tool calling with these open-source models. As a result, the code demonstrated in this tutorial is versatile—it works not just with OpenAI models, but with any model that follows the same interface standard.
To illustrate how this works, let's dive into a practical code example that uses tool calling to get the latest weather forecast (based on lmdeploy api server).
from openai import OpenAI
import json
def get_current_temperature(location: str, unit: str = "celsius"):
"""Get current temperature at a location.
Args:
location: The location to get the temperature for, in the format "City, State, Country".
unit: The unit to return the temperature in. Defaults to "celsius". (choices: ["celsius", "fahrenheit"])
Returns:
the temperature, the location, and the unit in a dict
"""
return {
"temperature": 26.1,
"location": location,
"unit": unit,
}
def get_temperature_date(location: str, date: str, unit: str = "celsius"):
"""Get temperature at a location and date.
Args:
location: The location to get the temperature for, in the format "City, State, Country".
date: The date to get the temperature for, in the format "Year-Month-Day".
unit: The unit to return the temperature in. Defaults to "celsius". (choices: ["celsius", "fahrenheit"])
Returns:
the temperature, the location, the date and the unit in a dict
"""
return {
"temperature": 25.9,
"location": location,
"date": date,
"unit": unit,
}
def get_function_by_name(name):
if name == "get_current_temperature":
return get_current_temperature
if name == "get_temperature_date":
return get_temperature_date
tools = [{
'type': 'function',
'function': {
'name': 'get_current_temperature',
'description': 'Get current temperature at a location.',
'parameters': {
'type': 'object',
'properties': {
'location': {
'type': 'string',
'description': 'The location to get the temperature for, in the format \'City, State, Country\'.'
},
'unit': {
'type': 'string',
'enum': [
'celsius',
'fahrenheit'
],
'description': 'The unit to return the temperature in. Defaults to \'celsius\'.'
}
},
'required': [
'location'
]
}
}
}, {
'type': 'function',
'function': {
'name': 'get_temperature_date',
'description': 'Get temperature at a location and date.',
'parameters': {
'type': 'object',
'properties': {
'location': {
'type': 'string',
'description': 'The location to get the temperature for, in the format \'City, State, Country\'.'
},
'date': {
'type': 'string',
'description': 'The date to get the temperature for, in the format \'Year-Month-Day\'.'
},
'unit': {
'type': 'string',
'enum': [
'celsius',
'fahrenheit'
],
'description': 'The unit to return the temperature in. Defaults to \'celsius\'.'
}
},
'required': [
'location',
'date'
]
}
}
}]
messages = [
{'role': 'user', 'content': 'Today is 2024-11-14, What\'s the temperature in San Francisco now? How about tomorrow?'}
]
openai_api_key = "EMPTY"
openai_api_base = "http://0.0.0.0:23333/v1"
client = OpenAI(
api_key=openai_api_key,
base_url=openai_api_base,
)
model_name = client.models.list().data[0].id
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model=model_name,
messages=messages,
max_tokens=32768,
temperature=0.8,
top_p=0.8,
stream=False,
extra_body=dict(spaces_between_special_tokens=False, enable_thinking=False),
tools=tools)
print(response.choices[0].message)
messages.append(response.choices[0].message)
for tool_call in response.choices[0].message.tool_calls:
tool_call_args = json.loads(tool_call.function.arguments)
tool_call_result = get_function_by_name(tool_call.function.name)(**tool_call_args)
tool_call_result = json.dumps(tool_call_result, ensure_ascii=False)
messages.append({
'role': 'tool',
'name': tool_call.function.name,
'content': tool_call_result,
'tool_call_id': tool_call.id
})
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model=model_name,
messages=messages,
temperature=0.8,
top_p=0.8,
stream=False,
extra_body=dict(spaces_between_special_tokens=False, enable_thinking=False),
tools=tools)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)
Switching Between Thinking and Non-Thinking Modes
Intern-S1-mini enables thinking mode by default, enhancing the model's reasoning capabilities to generate higher-quality responses. This feature can be disabled by setting enable_thinking=False in tokenizer.apply_chat_template
text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
messages,
tokenize=False,
add_generation_prompt=True,
enable_thinking=False # think mode indicator
)
With LMDeploy serving Intern-S1-mini models, you can dynamically control the thinking mode by adjusting the enable_thinking parameter in your requests.
from openai import OpenAI
import json
messages = [
{
'role': 'user',
'content': 'who are you'
}, {
'role': 'assistant',
'content': 'I am an AI'
}, {
'role': 'user',
'content': 'AGI is?'
}]
openai_api_key = "EMPTY"
openai_api_base = "http://0.0.0.0:23333/v1"
client = OpenAI(
api_key=openai_api_key,
base_url=openai_api_base,
)
model_name = client.models.list().data[0].id
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model=model_name,
messages=messages,
temperature=0.8,
top_p=0.8,
max_tokens=2048,
extra_body={
"enable_thinking": False,
}
)
print(json.dumps(response.model_dump(), indent=2, ensure_ascii=False))
For vllm and sglang users, configure this through,
extra_body={
"chat_template_kwargs": {"enable_thinking": False}
}