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Mike Young @mikeyoung44

SmolDocling: Ultra-Compact AI Model For Document Processing

SmolDocling: Ultra-compact AI model processes docs 5x faster than GPT-4 using 85% less computing power. Trained on 200B tokens, supports multiple doc understanding tasks & released as fully open source.

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SmolDocling is a compact vision-language model for document processing
7B parameters total (2B for vision, 5B for language)
Processes documents at 5x the speed of larger models
Maintains or exceeds performance of models 6x larger
Supports multiple document understanding tasks
Trained on 200 billion tokens of text and ima...