NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL NIM microservice
Version: 1
Description
The NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL NIM microservice enables multi-image reasoning and video understanding, along with strong document intelligence, visual Q&A and summarization capabilities. This model is ready for commercial use. Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL is a model for multi-modal document intelligence. It would be used by individuals or businesses that need to process documents such as invoices, receipts, and manuals. The model is capable of handling multiple images of documents, up to four images at a resolution of 1k x 2k each, along with a long text prompt. The expected use is for tasks like summarization and Visual Question Answering (VQA). The model is also expected to have a significant advantage in throughput.Input
Type(s): Image, Video, TextFormat: Image (PNG, JPG), Video (MP4, MKV, FLV, 3GP), Text (String)
Parameters: Image (2D), Video (3D), Text (1D) Other Properties Related to Input:
- Input Images Supported: 4
- Language Supported: English only
- Input + Output Token: 128K
- Minimum Resolution: 32 * 32 pixels
- Maximum Resolution: Determined by a 12-tile layout constraint, with each tile being 512 X 512 pixels. This supports aspect ratios such as:
- 4 X 3 layout: up to 2048 X 1536 pixels
- 3 X 4 layout: up to 1536 X 2048 pixels
- 2 X 6 layout: up to 1024 X 3072 pixels
- 6 X 2 layout: up to 3072 X 1024 pixels
- Other configurations allowed, provided total tiles ≤ 12
- Channel Count: 3 channels (RGB)
- Alpha Channel: Not supported (no transparency)
- Frames: 2 FPS with min of 8 frames and max of 128 frames
Output
Type(s): TextFormat: String
Parameters: 1D Other Properties Related to Output: Input + Output Token: 128K Our AI models are designed and/or optimized to run on NVIDIA GPU-accelerated systems. By leveraging NVIDIA's hardware (e.g. GPU cores) and software frameworks (e.g., CUDA libraries), the model achieves faster training and inference times compared to CPU-only solutions. NVIDIA AI Enterprise
NVIDIA AI Enterprise is an end-to-end, cloud-native software platform that accelerates data science pipelines and streamlines development and deployment of production-grade co-pilots and other generative AI applications. Easy-to-use microservices provide optimized model performance with enterprise-grade security, support, and stability to ensure a smooth transition from prototype to production for enterprises that run their businesses on AI.
Intended Use Case
Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL is a model for multi-modal document intelligence. It would be used by individuals or businesses that need to process documents such as invoices, receipts, and manuals. The model is capable of handling multiple images of documents, up to four images at a resolution of 1k x 2k each, along with a long text prompt. The expected use is for tasks like summarization and Visual Question Answering (VQA). The model is also expected to have a significant advantage in throughput.Ethical Considerations
NVIDIA believes Trustworthy AI is a shared responsibility and we have established policies and practices to enable development for a wide array of AI applications. When downloaded or used in accordance with our terms of service, developers should work with their internal developer team to ensure this model meets requirements for the relevant industry and use case and addresses unforeseen product misuse. Users are responsible for model inputs and outputs. Users are responsible for ensuring safe integration of this model, including implementing guardrails as well as other safety mechanisms, prior to deployment. Please report security vulnerabilities or NVIDIA AI Concerns here .Example Curl Request
#!/bin/bash
curl -X 'POST' \
'<ENDPOINT_URL>/v1/chat/completions' \
-H 'Accept: application/json' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H "Authorization: Bearer <API_KEY>" \
-d '{
"messages": [
{
"role": "system",
"content": "/think"
},
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a limerick about the wonders of GPU computing."
}
],
"max_tokens": 256
}'
Training, Testing, and Evaluation Datasets
Training Datasets
Total Size: 39,486,703 samplesTotal Number of Datasets: 270
Total Storage: 27.7 TB Dataset Breakdown:
Text-only datasets: 33
Text-and-image datasets: 176
Video-and-text datasets: 61 Data Modalities: Text, Image, Video
Data Collection Method: Hybrid (Automated, Human, Synthetic)
Labeling Method: Hybrid (Automated, Human, Synthetic) Dataset Partitions:
Training: 100%
Testing: 0%
Validation: 0% Time Periods:
Training data collection: 2023-2025
Testing data collection: N/A
Validation data collection: N/A
Post-Training Datasets
The post-training datasets consist of a mix of internal and public datasets designed for training vision language models across various tasks. It includes:- Public datasets sourced from publicly available images and annotations, supporting tasks like classification, captioning, visual question answering, conversation modeling, document analysis and text/image reasoning.
- Internal text and image datasets built with public commercial images and internal labels, adapted for the same tasks as listed above.
- Synthetic image datasets generated programmatically for specific tasks like tabular data understanding and optical character recognition (OCR), for English, Chinese as well as other languages.
- Video datasets supporting video question answering and reasoning tasks from publicly available video sources, with either publicly available or internally generated annotations.
- Specialized datasets for safety alignment, function calling, and domain-specific tasks (e.g., science diagrams, financial question answering).
- NVIDIA-Sourced Synthetic Datasets for text reasoning.
- Private datasets for safety alignment or VQA on invoices.
- Crawled or scraped captioning, VQA, and video datasets.
- Some datasets were improved with Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct annotations.
- Language translation
- Re-labeling of annotations for text, image and video datasets
- Synthetic data generation
- Generating chain-of-thought (CoT) traces
Public Datasets
| Type | Data Type | Total Samples | Total Size (GB) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Function call | text | 8,000 | 0.02 |
| Image Captioning | image, text | 1,422,102 | 1,051.04 |
| Image Reasoning | image, text | 1,888,217 | 286.95 |
| OCR | image, text | 9,830,570 | 5,317.60 |
| Referring Expression Grounding | image, text | 14,694 | 2.39 |
| Safety | image, text | 34,187 | 9.21 |
| Safety | text | 57,223 | 0.52 |
| Safety | video, text | 12,988 | 11.78 |
| Text Instruction Tuning | text | 245,056 | 1.13 |
| Text Reasoning | text | 225,408 | 4.55 |
| VQA | image, text | 8,174,136 | 2,207.52 |
| VQA | video, text | 40,000 | 46.05 |
| Video Captioning | video, text | 3,289 | 6.31 |
| Video Reasoning | video, text | 42,620 | 49.10 |
| VideoQA | video, text | 1,371,923 | 17,641.79 |
| Visual Instruction Tuning | image, text | 1,173,877 | 167.79 |
| TOTAL | 24,544,290 | 26,803.75 |
Private Datasets
| Type | Modalities | Total Samples | Total Size (GB) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Image Reasoning | image, text | 17,729 | 15.41 |
| Text Reasoning | text | 445,958 | 9.01 |
| TOTAL | 463,687 | 24.42 |
Data Crawling and Scraping
| Type | Modalities | Total Samples | Total Size (GB) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Image Captioning | image, text | 39,870 | 10.24 |
| VQA | image, text | 40,348 | 3.94 |
| VideoQA | video, text | 288,728 | 393.30 |
| TOTAL | 368,946 | 407.48 |
User-Sourced Data (Collected by Provider including Prompts)
Self-Sourced Synthetic Data
| Type | Data Type | Total Samples | Total Size (GB) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Code | text | 1,165,591 | 54.15 |
| OCR | image, text | 216,332 | 83.53 |
| Text Reasoning | text | 12,727,857 | 295.80 |
| TOTAL | 14,109,780 | 433.48 |
Properties
Additionally, the dataset collection (for training and evaluation) consists of a mix of internal and public datasets designed for training and evaluation across various tasks. It includes:- Internal datasets built with public commercial images and internal labels, supporting tasks like conversation modeling and document analysis.
- Public datasets sourced from publicly available images and annotations, adapted for tasks such as image captioning and visual question answering.
- Synthetic datasets generated programmatically for specific tasks like tabular data understanding.
- Specialized datasets for safety alignment, function calling, and domain-specific tasks (e.g., science diagrams, financial question answering).
Evaluation Datasets
The following external benchmarks are used for evaluating the model:- RDTableBench
- NVIDIA internal test set for OCR
- MMMU Val with ChatGPT as judge
- AI2D Test
- ChartQA Test
- InfoVQA Val
- OCRBench
- OCRBenchV2 English
- DocVQA Val
- SlideQA Val
- Video MME
Labeling Method: Hybrid (Human, Automated)
Properties (Quantity, Dataset Descriptions, Sensor(s)): N/A
Dataset License(s): N/A
The following external benchmarks are used for evaluating the model:
| Benchmark | Score |
|---|---|
| MMMU* | 68 |
| MathVista* | 76.9 |
| AI2D | 87.11 |
| OCRBenchv2 | 62.0 |
| OCRBench | 85.6 |
| OCR-Reasoning | 36.4 |
| ChartQA | 89.72 |
| DocVQA | 94.39 |
| Video-MME w/o sub | 65.9 |
| Vision Average | 74.0 |
Model Specifications
LicenseCustom
Last UpdatedDecember 2025
Input TypeText,Image,Video
Output TypeText
ProviderNvidia
Languages1 Language