Efficient-Large-Model / LongVILA-R1-7B

LongVILA-R1-7B

Introduction:

LongVILA-R1-7B supports both multiple-choice questions and open-ended questions. It can switch between thinking and non-thinking modes.
LongVILA-R1-7B demonstrates strong performance in long video reasoning, achieving 70.7% on VideoMME (w/ sub.) and surpassing Gemini-1.5-Pro across diverse reasoning tasks.
Long-RL is a codebase that accelerates long video RL training by up to 2.1× through its MR-SP system. It supports RL training on image, video, and omni inputs across VILA, Qwen/Qwen-VL, and diffusion models.

Evaluation:

Video QA Benchmarks

LongVideo-Reason-eval

Usage

General Inference

from transformers import AutoModel

model_path = "Efficient-Large-Model/LongVILA-R1-7B"
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(model_path, trust_remote_code=True, device_map="auto")

use_thinking = True # Switching between thinking and non-thinking modes
system_prompt_thinking = "You are a helpful assistant. The user asks a question, and then you solves it.\n\nPlease first think deeply about the question based on the given video, and then provide the final answer. The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> reasoning process here </think> <answer> answer here </answer>.\n\n Question: {question}"

prompt = "What is the main purpose of the video?"
video_path = "video.mp4"

if use_thinking:
  prompt = system_prompt_thinking.format(question=prompt)

response = model.generate_content([prompt, {"path": video_path}])
print("Response: ", response)

with vLLM engine

Tested on vllm==0.9.1 . We need to get the remote code first.

mkdir remote_code
cp path_to/Efficient-Large-Model/LongVILA-R1-7B/*.py remote_code

Then, you can use the following code for model generation.

import os
from transformers import AutoModel
from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
from remote_code.media import extract_media
from remote_code.mm_utils import process_images
from remote_code.tokenizer_utils import tokenize_conversation

model_path = "path_to/Efficient-Large-Model/LongVILA-R1-7B"

model_encoder = AutoModel.from_pretrained(model_path, trust_remote_code=True, device_map="auto", llm_only_need_embed=True)
# you can change gpu_memory_utilization according to GPU memory
llm = LLM(model=os.path.join(model_path, "llm"), enable_prompt_embeds=True, gpu_memory_utilization=0.5)

use_thinking = True # Switching between thinking and non-thinking modes
system_prompt_thinking = "You are a helpful assistant. The user asks a question, and then you solves it.\n\nPlease first think deeply about the question based on the given video, and then provide the final answer. The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> reasoning process here </think> <answer> answer here </answer>.\n\n Question: {question}"

prompt = "What is the main purpose of the video?"
video_path = "video.mp4"

if use_thinking:
  prompt = system_prompt_thinking.format(question=prompt)

conversation = [{"from": "human", "value": [prompt, {"path": video_path}]}]
media = extract_media(conversation, model_encoder.config)
input_ids = tokenize_conversation(conversation, model_encoder.tokenizer, add_generation_prompt=True).unsqueeze(0).cuda()
media["video"] = [
    process_images(images, model_encoder.vision_tower.image_processor, model_encoder.config).half()
    for images in media["video"]
]

inputs_embeds, _, _ = model_encoder._embed(input_ids, media, {"video": {}}, None, None)

completions = llm.generate(prompts=[{"prompt_embeds": inputs_embeds.squeeze(0)}], sampling_params=SamplingParams(max_tokens=1024))
response = completions[0].outputs[0].text
print("Response: ", response)

LongVILA-R1 Model Card

Model details

Model type: LongVILA-R1 addresses the unique challenges of long video reasoning by integrating three critical components: (1) a large-scale dataset, LongVideo-Reason, comprising 104K long video QA pairs with high-quality reasoning annotations across diverse domains such as sports, games, and vlogs; (2) a two-stage training pipeline that extends VLMs with chain-of-thought supervised fine-tuning (CoT-SFT) and reinforcement learning (RL); and (3) a training infrastructure for long video RL, named Multi-modal Reinforcement Sequence Parallelism (MR-SP), which incorporates sequence parallelism and a vLLM-based engine tailored for long video, using cached video embeddings for efficient rollout and prefilling. In our experiments, LongVILA-R1-7B achieves strong performance on video benchmarks, reaching 65.0% and 70.7% accuracy on VideoMME without and with subtitles, respectively, and consistently outperforming LongVILA-R1 across multiple benchmarks. Moreover, LongVILA-R1 shows steady performance improvements as the number of input video frames increases. Model date: LongVILA-R1-7B was trained in July 2025.

Paper or resources for more information:

• Paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07966
• Code https://github.com/NVLabs/Long-RL
• Model https://huggingface.co/Efficient-Large-Model/LongVILA-R1-7B
• Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykbblK2jiEg
• Demo https://long-rl.hanlab.ai

@misc{long-rl,
  title = {Long-RL: Scaling RL to Long Sequences},
  author = {Yukang Chen, Wei Huang, Shuai Yang, Qinghao Hu, Baifeng Shi, Hanrong Ye, Ligeng Zhu, Zhijian Liu, Pavlo Molchanov, Jan Kautz, Xiaojuan Qi, Sifei Liu,Hongxu Yin, Yao Lu, Song Han},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  journal = {GitHub repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/NVlabs/Long-RL}},
}

@article{chen2025longvila-r1,
      title={Scaling RL to Long Videos},
      author={Yukang Chen and Wei Huang and Baifeng Shi and Qinghao Hu and Hanrong Ye and Ligeng Zhu and Zhijian Liu and Pavlo Molchanov and Jan Kautz and Xiaojuan Qi and Sifei Liu and Hongxu Yin and Yao Lu and Song Han},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2507.07966},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV}
}

@inproceedings{chen2024longvila,
      title={LongVILA: Scaling Long-Context Visual Language Models for Long Videos},
      author={Yukang Chen and Fuzhao Xue and Dacheng Li and Qinghao Hu and Ligeng Zhu and Xiuyu Li and Yunhao Fang and Haotian Tang and Shang Yang and Zhijian Liu and Ethan He and Hongxu Yin and Pavlo Molchanov and Jan Kautz and Linxi Fan and Yuke Zhu and Yao Lu and Song Han},
      booktitle={The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
      year={2025},
}

License

• The weights are released under the CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 license .
• The service is a research preview intended for non-commercial use only, and is subject to the following licenses and terms:
  • Terms of Use of the data generated by OpenAI
  • Dataset Licenses for each one used during training.
  • NVIDIA Licenses

Where to send questions or comments about the model: https://github.com/NVLabs/Long-RL/issues

Intended use

Primary intended uses: The primary use of LongVILA-R1 is research on large multimodal models and chatbots.

Primary intended users: The primary intended users of the model are researchers and hobbyists in computer vision, natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

Input:

Input Type: Video and Text Input Format: MP4 and other video fromats

Output:

Output Type: Text Output Format: String

[Preferred/Supported] Operating System(s):
Linux

Inference:

Engine: [Tensor(RT), Triton, Or List Other Here]

• PyTorch

Test Hardware:

• A100
• H100
• A6000

Ethical Considerations

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