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Xiaomi open-sources 4B multimodal model Xiaomi-Lens-0 with pixel-level grounding

Xiaomi's SeerRay-Lab has released Xiaomi-Lens-0, a 4-billion parameter multimodal model based on Qwen3.5-4B. This model is designed to ground its responses in specific image regions at a pixel level by emitting mask tokens. Alongside the model, the lab also introduced LensBench, a new benchmark specifically for evaluating pixel-level visual grounding capabilities. AI

IMPACT Provides an open-source alternative for pixel-level visual grounding, potentially advancing research and development in multimodal AI.

RANK_REASON Release of an open-source multimodal model and benchmark by a lab associated with a major tech company. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Xiaomi open-sources 4B multimodal model Xiaomi-Lens-0 with pixel-level grounding

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    Xiaomi SeerRay-Lab has open-sourced Xiaomi-Lens-0, a 4B multimodal model built on Qwen3.5-4B that emits mask tokens to ground its answers in image regions at pi

    Xiaomi SeerRay-Lab has open-sourced Xiaomi-Lens-0, a 4B multimodal model built on Qwen3.5-4B that emits mask tokens to ground its answers in image regions at pixel level. The team also released LensBench, a benchmark for pixel-level visual grounding. It offers an open alternative…