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ZAYA1-VL-8B Technical Report

Beren Millidge, Hassan Shapourian, Kasra Hejazi, Olabode M. Sule

Pith reviewed 2026-05-12 01:10 UTC · model grok-4.3

classification 💻 cs.CV cs.AI
keywords vision-language modelmixture-of-expertsLoRA adaptersbidirectional attentionimage understandingmultimodal modelefficient trainingtechnical report
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The pith

ZAYA1-VL-8B matches leading vision-language models on understanding and reasoning benchmarks despite its compact size.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The authors introduce ZAYA1-VL-8B, a mixture-of-experts vision-language model with 9.2 billion total parameters but only 1.4 billion active ones. Built on their own ZAYA1-8B language model, it incorporates vision-specific LoRA adapters and bidirectional attention for image tokens to boost performance without expanding the expert count. The model performs competitively with established systems like Molmo2-4B on image tasks while exceeding others such as Qwen2.5-VL-3B. The report details the training data, packing methods, and masking schemes used to achieve these results. A sympathetic reader would see this as evidence that targeted architectural tweaks can make smaller multimodal models viable alternatives to larger ones.

Core claim

ZAYA1-VL-8B is presented as a compact vision-language model that achieves performance competitive with leading base models such as Molmo2-4B and InternVL3.5-4B, while surpassing Qwen2.5-VL-3B, PLM-3B, and MolmoE-1B on image understanding, reasoning, and counting benchmarks, enabled by vision-specific LoRA adapters and bidirectional attention over image tokens.

What carries the argument

Vision-specific LoRA adapters integrated into the LLM combined with bidirectional attention over image tokens, which increase modality-specific capacity and enhance visual understanding without adding more experts.

Load-bearing premise

The reported benchmark scores accurately measure the model's true generalization ability rather than resulting from data overlap with the evaluation sets or selective reporting.

What would settle it

Evaluating the model on a newly created set of image understanding benchmarks with no overlap to any training data would show whether the competitive performance holds.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.08560 by Beren Millidge, Hassan Shapourian, Kasra Hejazi, Olabode M. Sule.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Left: Model chat template and a sample response. Note the model can give detailed grounding and bounding-boxes [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Architecture of ZAYA1-VL-8B. The model uses ZAYA1-8B as the LLM backbone and the Qwen2.5 vision transformer [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Padding schemes for the CCA module. (a) Each example [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Training data mixtures across the two main training [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Performance of ZAYA1-VL-8B against models across [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Impact of (a) vision attention mask and (b) vision [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Ablation results. For each experiment we report two [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Random examples from PixMo-point. 22 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: (Cont.) Random examples from PixMo-point. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Random examples from Molmo2-multi-image-pointing. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: (Cont.) Random examples from Molmo2-multi-image-pointing. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Random examples from grounding datasets. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: (Cont.) Random examples from grounding datasets. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: (Cont.) Random examples from grounding datasets. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: (Cont.) Random examples from grounding datasets. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Random examples from AI2D benchmark and model response. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_16.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Random examples from ChartQA(test) benchmark and model response. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_17.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Random examples from DocVQA(val) benchmark and model response. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_18.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 19. Figure 19: Random examples from InfoVQA(val) benchmark and model response. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_19.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 20. Figure 20: Random examples from TextVQA(val) benchmark and model response. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_20.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 21. Figure 21: Random examples from OCRBench benchmark and model response. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_21.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 22. Figure 22: Random examples from MathVista-Mini benchmark and model response. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p033_22.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 23. Figure 23: Random examples from MathVista-Mini benchmark and model response. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p034_23.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 24. Figure 24: Random examples from MathVista-Mini benchmark and model response. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p035_24.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 25. Figure 25: Random examples from MMMU benchmark and model response. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p036_25.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 26. Figure 26: Random examples from MMMU benchmark and model response. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p037_26.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 27. Figure 27: Random examples from MMMU benchmark and model response. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p038_27.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 28. Figure 28: Random examples from MMMU benchmark and model response. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p039_28.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 29. Figure 29: Random examples from MMMU benchmark and model response. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p040_29.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 30. Figure 30: Random examples from VQA v2.0 benchmark and model response. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p041_30.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 31. Figure 31: Random examples from SEED benchmark and model response. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p041_31.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 32. Figure 32: Random examples from BLINK benchmark and model response. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p042_32.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 33. Figure 33: Random examples from RealWorldQA benchmark and model response. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p043_33.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 34. Figure 34: Random examples from CountBenchQA benchmark and model response. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p043_34.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 35. Figure 35: Random examples from PixMoCount benchmark and model response. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p044_35.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 36. Figure 36: Random examples from Point-Bench benchmark and model response. Green point shows the point mentioned in the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p044_36.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 37. Figure 37: Random examples from Point-Bench benchmark and model response. Red point is the model response. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p045_37.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 38. Figure 38: Random examples from RefCOCO benchmark and model response. Red box shows the ground truth, and green box is [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p046_38.png] view at source ↗
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We present ZAYA1-VL-8B, a compact mixture-of-experts vision-language model built upon our in-house language model, ZAYA1-8B. Despite its compact size, ZAYA1-VL achieves performance competitive with leading base models such as Molmo2-4B and InternVL3.5-4B, while surpassing models including Qwen2.5-VL-3B, PLM-3B, and MolmoE-1B across a range of image understanding, reasoning, and counting benchmarks. The architecture incorporates two key innovations: (1) vision-specific LoRA adapters integrated into the LLM to increase modality-specific capacity without increasing the number of experts, and (2) bidirectional attention over image tokens within the LLM to enhance visual understanding. We detail the full training pipeline including data composition at each stage, sequence packing, and the attention masking scheme. The model comprises 9.2B total parameters, with 1.4B active parameters including the vision encoder, and is publicly available at https://huggingface.co/Zyphra/ZAYA1-VL.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper presents ZAYA1-VL-8B, a compact 9.2B-parameter (1.4B active) mixture-of-experts vision-language model built on the in-house ZAYA1-8B LLM. It introduces two architectural innovations—vision-specific LoRA adapters integrated into the LLM and bidirectional attention over image tokens—and details the training pipeline including data composition, sequence packing, and attention masking. The central claim is that ZAYA1-VL-8B achieves performance competitive with Molmo2-4B and InternVL3.5-4B while surpassing Qwen2.5-VL-3B, PLM-3B, and MolmoE-1B on image understanding, reasoning, and counting benchmarks. The model is released publicly.

Significance. If the performance claims are substantiated, the work would demonstrate a practical route to increasing modality-specific capacity in MoE VL models without expanding the expert count, which could aid development of efficient multimodal systems. The public model release supports reproducibility and further research.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The claim that ZAYA1-VL 'achieves performance competitive with leading base models such as Molmo2-4B and InternVL3.5-4B, while surpassing models including Qwen2.5-VL-3B, PLM-3B, and MolmoE-1B' is unsupported by any numerical scores, tables, ablation studies, error bars, or evaluation protocols in the manuscript text.
  2. [Training pipeline] Training pipeline description: No specific dataset lists, decontamination steps, data splits, or overlap checks with the reported benchmarks are provided, which is required to substantiate that the results reflect genuine generalization rather than data leakage or selective evaluation.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The breakdown of the 1.4B active parameters (including the vision encoder) is stated but not broken down by component; a short table or paragraph clarifying this would aid clarity.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive feedback. We address each major comment below and will make revisions to strengthen the manuscript where the points are valid.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The claim that ZAYA1-VL 'achieves performance competitive with leading base models such as Molmo2-4B and InternVL3.5-4B, while surpassing models including Qwen2.5-VL-3B, PLM-3B, and MolmoE-1B' is unsupported by any numerical scores, tables, ablation studies, error bars, or evaluation protocols in the manuscript text.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract claim would benefit from direct substantiation. The current manuscript focuses on architectural and training details but does not embed the supporting numerical results or protocols in the provided text. In revision, we will add a concise results summary with key benchmark scores, a reference to evaluation protocols, and note on ablations to the abstract or early sections, along with a main results table. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Training pipeline] Training pipeline description: No specific dataset lists, decontamination steps, data splits, or overlap checks with the reported benchmarks are provided, which is required to substantiate that the results reflect genuine generalization rather than data leakage or selective evaluation.

    Authors: The manuscript describes data composition at each training stage along with sequence packing and attention masking. However, we acknowledge the need for greater specificity. We will revise to include an explicit table or list of datasets per stage, decontamination procedures, data splits, and benchmark overlap checks to confirm no leakage and support generalization claims. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical model report with no derivations or self-referential predictions

full rationale

The paper is a technical report on training and benchmarking a vision-language model. It describes architecture choices (vision LoRA adapters, bidirectional image attention), data composition, sequence packing, attention masking, and reports benchmark scores against other models. No equations, first-principles derivations, or predictions appear in the abstract or described content. No self-citations, uniqueness theorems, or ansatzes are invoked. Performance claims rest on empirical evaluation rather than any closed loop that reduces to fitted inputs by construction. This matches the default case of a self-contained empirical paper with no load-bearing circular steps.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Review conducted from abstract only; no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are described beyond standard components of transformer-based MoE training.

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