[Model Request] SmolDocling-256M-preview

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⚙️ Request New Models

• Link to an existing implementation (e.g. Hugging Face/Github): SmolDocling-256M-preview
• Is this model architecture supported by MLC-LLM? (the list of supported models) No ( Based on Idefics3 )

Additional context

This model was presented in the paper SmolDocling: An ultra-compact vision-language model for end-to-end multi-modal document conversion.

🚀 Features:

• 🏷️ DocTags for Efficient Tokenization – Introduces DocTags an efficient and minimal representation for documents that is fully compatible with DoclingDocuments.
• 🔍 OCR (Optical Character Recognition) – Extracts text accurately from images.
• 📐 Layout and Localization – Preserves document structure and document element bounding boxes.
• 💻 Code Recognition – Detects and formats code blocks including identation.
• 🔢 Formula Recognition – Identifies and processes mathematical expressions.
• 📊 Chart Recognition – Extracts and interprets chart data.
• 📑 Table Recognition – Supports column and row headers for structured table extraction.
• 🖼️ Figure Classification – Differentiates figures and graphical elements.
• 📝 Caption Correspondence – Links captions to relevant images and figures.
• 📜 List Grouping – Organizes and structures list elements correctly.
• 📄 Full-Page Conversion – Processes entire pages for comprehensive document conversion including all page elements (code, equations, tables, charts etc.)
• 🔲 OCR with Bounding Boxes – OCR regions using a bounding box.
• 📂 General Document Processing – Trained for both scientific and non-scientific documents.
• 🔄 Seamless Docling Integration – Import into Docling and export in multiple formats.
• 💨 Fast inference using VLLM – Avg of 0.35 secs per page on A100 GPU.