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microsoft/Mage-VL · Hugging Face – An Efficient Codec-Native Streaming Multimodal Foundation Model
Mage-VL is a codec-native, proactive-streaming multimodal foundation model for image and video understanding, whose visual encoder is trained entirely from scratch at a compact 4B scale. It targets a modern Moravec's paradox of VLMs — strong at complex offline reasoning, yet slow and compute-heavy on simple real-time s