Introduction Vision Language Models (VLMs) allow both text inputs and visual understanding. However, image resolution is crucial for VLM performance for processing text and chart-rich data. Increasing image resolution creates significant challenges. First, pretrained vision encoders often struggle with high-resolution images due to inefficient pretraining requirements. Running inference on high-resolution images increases computational costs and…

A team of researchers from Meta Reality Labs and Carnegie Mellon University has introduced MapAnything, an end-to-end transformer architecture that directly regresses factored metric 3D scene geometry from images and optional sensor inputs. Released under Apache 2.0 with full training and benchmarking code, MapAnything advances beyond specialist pipelines by supporting over 12 distinct 3D vision…

IBM has released Granite-Docling-258M, an open-source (Apache-2.0) vision-language model designed specifically for end-to-end document conversion. The model targets layout-faithful extraction—tables, code, equations, lists, captions, and reading order—emitting a structured, machine-readable representation rather than lossy Markdown. It is available on Hugging Face with a live demo and MLX build for Apple Silicon. What’s new compared to…