mtmd : support Kimi VL model

convert_hf_to_gguf.py

@@ -6237,9 +6237,11 @@ def prepare_tensors(self):
                 raise ValueError(f"Unprocessed experts: {experts}")
 
 
-@ModelBase.register("DeepseekV2ForCausalLM")
-@ModelBase.register("DeepseekV3ForCausalLM")
-@ModelBase.register("KimiVLForConditionalGeneration")
+@ModelBase.register(
+    "DeepseekV2ForCausalLM",
+    "DeepseekV3ForCausalLM",
+    "KimiVLForConditionalGeneration",
+)
 class DeepseekV2Model(TextModel):
     model_arch = gguf.MODEL_ARCH.DEEPSEEK2
 
@@ -8484,6 +8486,43 @@ def map_tensor_name(self, name: str, try_suffixes: Sequence[str] = (".weight", "
             return "mm.2.weight"
         return super().map_tensor_name(name, try_suffixes)
 
+
+@ModelBase.register("KimiVLForConditionalGeneration")
+class KimiVLModel(MmprojModel):
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+        assert self.hparams_vision is not None
+        self.hparams_vision["image_size"] = 64 * 14 # for compatibility
+
+    def set_gguf_parameters(self):
+        super().set_gguf_parameters()
+        self.gguf_writer.add_clip_projector_type(gguf.VisionProjectorType.KIMIVL)
+        self.gguf_writer.add_vision_use_gelu(True)
+        self.gguf_writer.add_vision_projector_scale_factor(2)
+        # eps is the same as pytorch's default value
+        assert self.hparams_vision is not None
+        self.gguf_writer.add_vision_attention_layernorm_eps(self.hparams_vision.get("layer_norm_eps", 1e-5))
+
+    def modify_tensors(self, data_torch: Tensor, name: str, bid: int | None) -> Iterable[tuple[str, Tensor]]:
+        del bid  # unused
+        is_vision_tensor = "vision_tower" in name or "multi_modal_projector" in name
+
+        if is_vision_tensor:
+            if "pos_emb.weight" in name:
+                data_torch = data_torch.view(data_torch.shape[0] * data_torch.shape[1], data_torch.shape[2])
+            elif "wqkv" in name:
+                split_dim = 0 if "weight" in name else -1
+                wq, wk, wv = data_torch.chunk(3, dim=split_dim)
+                return [
+                    (self.map_tensor_name(name.replace("wqkv", "wq")), wq),
+                    (self.map_tensor_name(name.replace("wqkv", "wk")), wk),
+                    (self.map_tensor_name(name.replace("wqkv", "wv")), wv)
+                ]
+
+            return [(self.map_tensor_name(name), data_torch)]
+
+        return [] # skip other tensors
+
 ###### CONVERSION LOGIC ######
 
 

gguf-py/gguf/constants.py

@@ -2833,6 +2833,7 @@ class VisionProjectorType:
     QWEN25O = "qwen2.5o" # omni
     VOXTRAL = "voxtral"
     LFM2 = "lfm2"
+    KIMIVL = "kimivl"
 
 
 # Items here are (block size, type size)

gguf-py/gguf/tensor_mapping.py

@@ -1123,6 +1123,7 @@ class TensorNameMap:
             "vision_encoder.patch_conv", # pixtral
             "vision_model.patch_embedding.linear", # llama 4
             "visual.patch_embed.proj", # qwen2vl
+            "vision_tower.patch_embed.proj", # kimi-vl
         ),
 
         MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_EMBD_POS: (
@@ -1131,6 +1132,7 @@ class TensorNameMap:
             "vpm.embeddings.position_embedding",
             "model.vision_model.embeddings.position_embedding", # SmolVLM
             "vision_model.positional_embedding_vlm", # llama 4
+            "vision_tower.patch_embed.pos_emb", # kimi-vl
         ),
 
         MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_ATTN_Q: (
@@ -1142,6 +1144,7 @@ class TensorNameMap:
             "vision_tower.transformer.layers.{bid}.attention.q_proj", # pixtral-hf
             "vision_encoder.transformer.layers.{bid}.attention.wq", # pixtral
             "visual.blocks.{bid}.attn.q", # qwen2vl, generated
+            "vision_tower.encoder.blocks.{bid}.wq", # kimi-vl, generated
         ),
 
         MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_ATTN_Q_NORM: (
@@ -1158,6 +1161,7 @@ class TensorNameMap:
             "vision_tower.transformer.layers.{bid}.attention.k_proj", # pixtral-hf
             "vision_encoder.transformer.layers.{bid}.attention.wk", # pixtral
             "visual.blocks.{bid}.attn.k", # qwen2vl, generated
+            "vision_tower.encoder.blocks.{bid}.wk", # kimi-vl, generated
         ),
 
         MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_ATTN_K_NORM: (
@@ -1174,6 +1178,7 @@ class TensorNameMap:
             "vision_tower.transformer.layers.{bid}.attention.v_proj", # pixtral-hf
             "vision_encoder.transformer.layers.{bid}.attention.wv", # pixtral
             "visual.blocks.{bid}.attn.v", # qwen2vl, generated
+            "vision_tower.encoder.blocks.{bid}.wv", # kimi-vl, generated
         ),
 
         MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_INPUT_NORM: (
@@ -1186,6 +1191,7 @@ class TensorNameMap:
             "vision_encoder.transformer.layers.{bid}.attention_norm", # pixtral
             "vision_model.model.layers.{bid}.input_layernorm", # llama4
             "visual.blocks.{bid}.norm1", # qwen2vl
+            "vision_tower.encoder.blocks.{bid}.norm0", # kimi-vl (norm0/norm1)
         ),
 
         MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_ATTN_O: (
@@ -1198,6 +1204,7 @@ class TensorNameMap:
             "vision_tower.transformer.layers.{bid}.attention.o_proj", # pixtral-hf
             "vision_encoder.transformer.layers.{bid}.attention.wo", # pixtral
             "visual.blocks.{bid}.attn.proj", # qwen2vl
+            "vision_tower.encoder.blocks.{bid}.wo", # kimi-vl
         ),
 
         MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_POST_ATTN_NORM: (
@@ -1210,6 +1217,7 @@ class TensorNameMap:
             "vision_tower.transformer.layers.{bid}.ffn_norm", # pixtral-hf
             "vision_encoder.transformer.layers.{bid}.ffn_norm", # pixtral
             "visual.blocks.{bid}.norm2", # qwen2vl
+            "vision_tower.encoder.blocks.{bid}.norm1", # kimi-vl (norm0/norm1)
         ),
 
         MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_FFN_UP: (
@@ -1222,6 +1230,7 @@ class TensorNameMap:
             "vision_model.model.layers.{bid}.mlp.fc1", # llama4
             "visual.blocks.{bid}.mlp.fc1", # qwen2vl
             "visual.blocks.{bid}.mlp.up_proj", # qwen2.5vl
+            "vision_tower.encoder.blocks.{bid}.mlp.fc0", # kimi-vl (fc0/fc1)
         ),
 
         MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_FFN_GATE: (
@@ -1240,6 +1249,7 @@ class TensorNameMap:
             "vision_model.model.layers.{bid}.mlp.fc2", # llama4
             "visual.blocks.{bid}.mlp.fc2", # qwen2vl
             "visual.blocks.{bid}.mlp.down_proj", # qwen2.5vl
+            "vision_tower.encoder.blocks.{bid}.mlp.fc1", # kimi-vl (fc0/fc1)
         ),
 
         MODEL_TENSOR.V_LAYER_SCALE_1: (
@@ -1264,6 +1274,7 @@ class TensorNameMap:
             "model.vision_model.post_layernorm", # SmolVLM
             "vision_model.layernorm_post", # llama4
             "visual.merger.ln_q", # qwen2vl
+            "vision_tower.encoder.final_layernorm", # kimi-vl
         ),
 
         MODEL_TENSOR.V_MM_INP_PROJ: (
@@ -1273,6 +1284,7 @@ class TensorNameMap:
         MODEL_TENSOR.V_MM_INP_NORM: (
             "multi_modal_projector.norm",
             "multi_modal_projector.layer_norm",
+            "multi_modal_projector.pre_norm",
             "pre_mm_projector_norm",
         ),
 

tools/mtmd/clip-impl.h

@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ enum projector_type {
     PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN25O, // will be replaced by QWEN2A or QWEN25VL depending on clip_ctx
     PROJECTOR_TYPE_VOXTRAL,
     PROJECTOR_TYPE_LFM2,
+    PROJECTOR_TYPE_KIMIVL,
     PROJECTOR_TYPE_UNKNOWN,
 };
 
@@ -156,6 +157,7 @@ static std::map<projector_type, std::string> PROJECTOR_TYPE_NAMES = {
     { PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN25O,   "qwen2.5o"},
     { PROJECTOR_TYPE_VOXTRAL,   "voxtral"},
     { PROJECTOR_TYPE_LFM2,      "lfm2"},
+    { PROJECTOR_TYPE_KIMIVL,    "kimivl"},
 };
 
 static projector_type clip_projector_type_from_string(const std::string & str) {