MF-RSVLM

FUSE-RSVLM: Feature Fusion Vision-Language Model for Remote Sensing

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Overview

MF-RSVLM is a remote sensing vision-language model (VLM). It combines a CLIP vision encoder, a two-layer MLP projector, and a Vicuna-7B LLM, and is trained in two stages for modality alignment and instruction following.

• Visual Encoder: CLIP ViT-L/14 336px
• Projector: 2-layer MLP
• LLM: Vicuna-7B v1.5
• Training: Pretrain (VersaD 1.4M image-text pairs) + SFT (instruction tuning)

Contents

• Install
• Repository Layout
• Downloads
• Training
• Inference Demos
• Evaluation
• Citation

Install

git clone git@github.com:opendatalab/MF-RSVLM.git
cd MF-RSVLM
conda create -n mf-rsvlm
conda activate mf-rsvlm
pip install -r requirements.txt

Repository Layout

MF-RSVLM/
├── mfrsvlm/               # package code
│   ├── model/             # deepstack, builder, consolidate
│   ├── train/             # train_mem.py, train.py, trainer
│   ├── conversation.py
│   ├── constants.py
│   ├── mm_utils.py
│   └── utils.py
├── scripts/               # inference/eval/data-prep helpers + ZeRO configs
│   └── data/
├── checkpoints/           # mf-rsvlm-7b_pretrained, mf-rsvlm-7b_sft
├── models/                # vicuna-7b-v1.5, clip-vit-large-patch14-336, llava-mlp2x
├── requirements.txt
└── README.md

Downloads

Models

Datasets

• Pretrain data: https://huggingface.co/datasets/FitzPC/VHM_VersaD
• SFT data: https://huggingface.co/datasets/FelixKAI/RSVLM-SFT

Training

MF-RSVLM training has two stages: pretraining for modality alignment, and supervised fine-tuning (SFT) for instruction following.

Pretrain

Run the Slurm script below to start pretraining:

sh scripts/rs/slurm_pretrain.sh

Supervised Fine-Tuning

Run the Slurm script below to start SFT:

sh scripts/rs/slurm_finetune.sh

Inference Demos

Single-Sample Inference (CLI)

Use the lightweight helper to test a single image-question pair. This script loads the model once and prints the response directly in the terminal.

CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 python scripts/run_mfrsvlm_inference.py \
  --model-path checkpoints/mfrsvlm-7b_sft \
  --image-path /path/to/image.png \
  --prompt "What is shown in the image?"

Web Demo (Full-Model UI)

Start a simple Flask web interface for interactive evaluation. The server loads the checkpoint once, then serves a browser UI for repeated queries.

CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 python scripts/run_mf-rsvlm_web_server.py \
  --model-path checkpoints/mfrsvlm-7b_sft \
  --host 0.0.0.0 \
  --port 7860

Open http://localhost:7860 in your browser, upload an image, and enter a question to get the model response.

Web UI Result

Evaluation

We provide a dedicated evaluation toolkit: RSEvalKit.

git clone https://github.com/fitzpchao/RSEvalKit
cd RSEvalKit
conda create -n rseval
conda activate rseval
pip install -r requirements.txt

Download the model weights and datasets, then follow the RSEvalKit README for one-click evaluation.

Citation

@article{dang2025fuse,
  title={FUSE-RSVLM: Feature Fusion Vision-Language Model for Remote Sensing},
  author={Dang, Yunkai and Wang, Donghao and Yang, Jiacheng and Jiang, Yifan and Zhu, Meiyi and Yang, Yuekun and Wang, Cong and Fan, Qi and Li, Wenbin and Gao, Yang},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.24022},
  year={2025}
}

Acknowledgement

We gratefully acknowledge these wonderful works:

• Vicuna
• LLaVA
• ShareGPT4V
• LLaMA
• VHM