EGM-8B-SFT

Model Summary

EGM-Qwen3-VL-8B-SFT is the supervised fine-tuning (SFT) checkpoint from the first stage of the EGM (Efficient Visual Grounding Language Models) training pipeline. It is built on top of Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking.

This is an intermediate checkpoint intended for further reinforcement learning training. For the final model with best performance, see nvidia/EGM-8B.

Training Details

SFT Stage

In the SFT stage, a proprietary VLM generates detailed chain-of-thought reasoning steps for visual grounding training data. The base Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking model is then fine-tuned on this reasoning-augmented data to learn structured visual grounding with explicit reasoning.

This SFT checkpoint serves as the initialization for the subsequent RL stage (GRPO), which yields the final EGM-8B model.

How to Use for RL Training

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pip install -U huggingface_hub
huggingface-cli download nvidia/EGM-8B-SFT --local-dir ./models/EGM-8B-SFT

Then follow the installation instructions in the EGM repository, prepare the RL data and start training:

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export BASE_DIR=$(pwd)
export MODEL_PATH="${BASE_DIR}/models/EGM-8B-SFT"
export OUTPUT_DIR="${BASE_DIR}/checkpoint/"
export DATA_DIR="${BASE_DIR}/data/EGM_Datasets/processed_rl_data/"

cd verl
bash scripts/grounding_qwen.sh

See the EGM repository for full RL training instructions.

Model Architecture

Related Models

Citation

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@article{zhan2026EGM,
    author = {Zhan, Guanqi and Li, Changye and Liu, Zhijian and Lu, Yao and Wu, Yi and Han, Song and Zhu, Ligeng},
    title = {EGM: Efficient Visual Grounding Language Models},
    booktitle = {arXiv},
    year = {2026}
}

Acknowledgment

This repository benefits from Qwen3-VL, InternVL, verl and verl-internvl.