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NVIDIA NIM Model Catalog
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NVIDIA NIM Model Catalog

Highest automated fit score using source-backed task evidence and radar signals.

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Best API or hosted option

NVIDIA NIM Model Catalog

Strong candidate when the source metadata indicates API or hosted-service availability.

RDR82serviceNVIDIA
Best open-source option

NVIDIA NIM Model Catalog

Strong candidate when open weights, GitHub, permissive license, or self-hosting signals are visible.

RDR82serviceNVIDIA
Best developer momentum

ParVL: Parallel Scaling and Expandable Compute Allocation for Multimodal LLMs

Strong candidate with fresh GitHub, Hub, Product Hunt, or radar momentum.

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Best research signal

ParVL: Parallel Scaling and Expandable Compute Allocation for Multimodal LLMs

Strong paper or research-linked candidate when a source-backed research signal exists.

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#CandidateTypeAccessSourceFitUpdatedWhy it matchedEvidence
01NVIDIA NIM Model CatalogNVIDIA inference platformserviceFree endpointOfficial inference catalogRDR82Jun 26, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language, multimodal; 3 source links; official inference catalog signal; access model: Free endpointbuild.nvidia.com
02Hugging Face Inference ProvidersHugging Face model hubservicePaid APIOfficial inference catalogRDR79Jun 26, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language, multimodal; 2 source links; official inference catalog signal; access model: Paid APIhuggingface.co
03Fireworks AI Serverless ModelsFireworks AI inference platformservicePaid APIOfficial inference catalogRDR78Jun 26, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language, multimodal; 2 source links; official inference catalog signal; access model: Paid APIdocs.fireworks.ai
04Together AI Serverless ModelsTogether AI inference platformservicePaid APIOfficial inference catalogRDR78Jun 26, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language, multimodal; 2 source links; official inference catalog signal; access model: Paid APIdocs.together.ai
05ParVL: Parallel Scaling and Expandable Compute Allocation for Multimodal LLMshttp://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04010v1paperResearch-onlyarxiv-aiRDR77Aug 4, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language, multimodal; 2 source links; access model: Research-only; freshly updatedarxiv.org
06ERUnderstand: Evaluating Vision-Language Models on Structured ER Diagramshttp://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24707v1paperResearch-onlyarxiv-aiRDR76Jul 27, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language, multimodal; 2 source links; access model: Research-onlyarxiv.org
07ClinFusion: A Vision-Centric Multimodal LLM System for Holistic Medical Understandinghttp://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24743v1paperResearch-onlyarxiv-aiRDR75Jul 27, 2026Matched multimodal, image understanding, visual question answering; 1 source link; access model: Research-onlyarxiv.org
08Towards Grounded GI Endoscopy VQA via Multi-Task Learning on Small VLMshttp://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27122v1paperResearch-onlyarxiv-aiRDR72Jul 29, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language, vlm; 1 source link; access model: Research-onlyarxiv.org
09Qualcomm AI Hub ModelsQualcomm model zooserviceDownloadable pretrainedOfficial model zooRDR72Jun 26, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language, multimodal; 1 source link; official model zoo signal; access model: Downloadable pretrainedaihub.qualcomm.com
10Antfly: A Distributed Search Engine for Multimodal AI DataRAG & SearcharticlePricing not verifiedAI on Radar articleRDR70Jun 5, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language, multimodal; 1 source link; access model: Pricing not verifiedgithub.com
11OSReward: Instituting Standardized Evaluation for Cross-Platform Computer-Use Reward Modelshttp://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28609v1paperResearch-onlyarxiv-aiRDR70Jul 30, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language, vlm; 1 source link; access model: Research-onlyarxiv.org
12ReToken: One Token to Improve Vision-Language Models for Visual Retrievalhttp://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28627v1paperResearch-onlyarxiv-aiRDR69Jul 30, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language; 2 source links; access model: Research-onlyarxiv.org
13FibVLA: An Efficient Temporal Vision-Language-Action Model with Fibonacci Samplinghttp://arxiv.org/abs/2607.29596v1paperResearch-onlyarxiv-aiRDR69Jul 31, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language, multimodal; 1 source link; access model: Research-onlyarxiv.org
14VLMs May Not Globally Enhance Human Alignment over LLMs During Natural ReadingResearch PapersarticlePricing not verifiedAI on Radar articleRDR69May 28, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language, vlm; 1 source link; access model: Pricing not verifiedarxiv.org
15HumanCLAW: Can Vision-Language Models Act Through a Body?http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27180v1paperResearch-onlyarxiv-aiRDR68Jul 29, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language, vlm; 1 source link; access model: Research-onlyarxiv.org
16KANEx: Translating Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks' Interpretability to Medical Explainabilityhttp://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24730v1paperResearch-onlyarxiv-aiRDR68Jul 27, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language, vlm; 1 source link; access model: Research-onlyarxiv.org
17ContextRL: Reinforcement Learning for Improved LLM Reasoning and Multimodal PerformanceResearch PapersarticlePricing not verifiedAI on Radar articleRDR67Jun 16, 2026Matched multimodal, image understanding, visual question answering; 1 source link; access model: Pricing not verifiedarxiv.org
18TurboVLA: Real-Time Vision-Language-Action Model at 32 Hz on an RTX 4090 with <1 GB VRAMhttp://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27205v1paperResearch-onlyarxiv-aiRDR67Jul 29, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language; 2 source links; access model: Research-onlyarxiv.org
19NEO-ov: A Native One-Vision Foundation Model for End-to-End Spatiotemporal ModelingResearch PapersarticlePricing not verifiedAI on Radar articleRDR67May 28, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language, multimodal; 1 source link; access model: Pricing not verifiedarxiv.org
20Data Pyramid for Embodied Manipulationhttp://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24744v1paperResearch-onlyarxiv-aiRDR66Jul 27, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language, multimodal; 1 source link; access model: Research-onlyarxiv.org
21Evidence Attribution in Visual Document Understanding without Coordinates or Region Labelshttp://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24651v1paperResearch-onlyarxiv-aiRDR66Jul 27, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language, multimodal; 1 source link; access model: Research-onlyarxiv.org
22VetClaw: An Edge-Cloud Multimodal Agentic System for Veterinary Disease Screeninghttp://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26042v1paperResearch-onlyarxiv-aiRDR65Jul 28, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language, vlm; 1 source link; access model: Research-onlyarxiv.org
23PAR3D: A Unified 3D-MLLM for Part-Aware Scene UnderstandingResearch PapersarticlePricing not verifiedAI on Radar articleRDR65Jun 5, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language, multimodal; 1 source link; access model: Pricing not verifiedarxiv.org
24ScaFE: Data-Efficient Scar Classification with LLM-Generated Clinical Feature Programshttp://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28538v1paperResearch-onlyarxiv-aiRDR65Jul 30, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language, vlm; 1 source link; access model: Research-onlyarxiv.org
25ACE-Data-0: Human-Centric Ambient Capture as Embodied Data Enginehttp://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28625v1paperResearch-onlyarxiv-aiRDR65Jul 30, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language; 1 source link; access model: Research-onlyarxiv.org
26MemoryVLA++: Enhancing Vision-Language-Action Models with Temporal Memory and Imagination for RoboticsRoboticsarticlePricing not verifiedAI on Radar articleRDR64Jun 9, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language, vlm; 1 source link; access model: Pricing not verifiedarxiv.org
27P-ai: A Self-Growing Desktop AI Assistant for Automation and Long-Running TasksAI ToolsarticlePricing not verifiedAI on Radar articleRDR64May 26, 2026Matched image-to-text, image to text; 1 source link; access model: Pricing not verifiedgithub.com
28InSight: Self-Guided Skill Acquisition via Steerable VLAsRoboticsarticlePricing not verifiedAI on Radar articleRDR63Jun 24, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language, vlm; 1 source link; access model: Pricing not verifiedarxiv.org
29PerceptionRubrics: Calibrating Multimodal Evaluation to Human PerceptionBenchmarksarticlePricing not verifiedAI on Radar articleRDR63Jun 29, 2026Matched multimodal, visual question answering; 1 source link; access model: Pricing not verifiedarxiv.org
30WCM: A World Critic Model for Vision-Language-Action Reinforcement Learninghttp://arxiv.org/abs/2607.29613v1paperResearch-onlyarxiv-aiRDR63Jul 31, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language, vlm; 1 source link; access model: Research-onlyarxiv.org
31MonoIR-RS: A New Benchmark for Infrared Remote Sensing Vision-Language UnderstandingResearch PapersarticlePricing not verifiedAI on Radar articleRDR63Jul 8, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language, vlm; 1 source link; access model: Pricing not verifiedarxiv.org
32LocateAnything: Fast and High-Quality Vision-Language Grounding with Parallel Box DecodingResearch PapersarticlePricing not verifiedAI on Radar articleRDR63May 27, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language; 1 source link; access model: Pricing not verifiedarxiv.org
33MAPS: A Novel Framework for Joint Vision-Language Geo-LocalizationResearch PapersarticlePricing not verifiedAI on Radar articleRDR63Jun 23, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language, multimodal; 1 source link; access model: Pricing not verifiedarxiv.org
34NewtPhys: A New Benchmark for Newtonian Physics Understanding in Foundation ModelsResearch PapersarticlePricing not verifiedAI on Radar articleRDR62Jun 3, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language; 1 source link; access model: Pricing not verifiedarxiv.org
35SOCO: A New Benchmark for Semantic Object Correspondence in Vision Foundation ModelsBenchmarksarticlePricing not verifiedAI on Radar articleRDR61Jun 1, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language; 1 source link; access model: Pricing not verifiedarxiv.org
36NegAS: Negative Label Guided Attention and Scoring for Out-of-Distribution Object Detection with Vision-Language ModelsResearch PapersarticlePricing not verifiedAI on Radar articleRDR61Jun 23, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language, vlm; 1 source link; access model: Pricing not verifiedarxiv.org
37$π\mathbf{R}^2$: Reactive Real-time Flow Policieshttp://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26055v1paperResearch-onlyarxiv-aiRDR60Jul 28, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language; 1 source link; access model: Research-onlyarxiv.org
38Anatomy Contextualized Adaption of CT Foundation Modelshttp://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27154v1paperResearch-onlyarxiv-aiRDR60Jul 29, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language; 1 source link; access model: Research-onlyarxiv.org
39DLAM: Distributional Latent Actions with Temporal Constraintshttp://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27138v1paperResearch-onlyarxiv-aiRDR60Jul 29, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language; 1 source link; access model: Research-onlyarxiv.org
40cero2k6/gideal-rag-v1cero2k6 modelmodelOpen weightsHugging Face ModelsRDR59Aug 6, 2026Matched image-to-text, image to text; 2 source links; access model: Open weights; freshly updatedhuggingface.co
41HierDoc: Hierarchical Page-to-Region Evidence Routing for Long-Document Visual Question Answeringhttp://arxiv.org/abs/2607.29638v1paperResearch-onlyarxiv-aiRDR59Jul 31, 2026Matched ocr, visual question answering; 1 source link; access model: Research-onlyarxiv.org
42a3124371940/radeonvla_reflex_evaluation_videosa3124371940 modelmodelOpen weightsHugging Face ModelsRDR58Aug 5, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language; 2 source links; access model: Open weights; freshly updatedhuggingface.co
43jwidmer/trocr-hanse-test-inferencejwidmer modelmodelOpen weightsHugging Face ModelsRDR58Aug 6, 2026Matched image-to-text, image to text; 2 source links; access model: Open weights; freshly updatedhuggingface.co
44RoboTTT: Scaling Robot Policy Context to 8K TimestepsRoboticsarticlePricing not verifiedAI on Radar articleRDR58Jul 17, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language; 1 source link; access model: Pricing not verifiedarxiv.org
45PolicyTrim: Enhancing Vision-Language-Action Model EfficiencyResearch PapersarticlePricing not verifiedAI on Radar articleRDR58Jun 23, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language; 1 source link; access model: Pricing not verifiedarxiv.org
46Staged Executable Inverse Graphics (SEIG) with Vision-Language Models in BlenderResearch PapersarticlePricing not verifiedAI on Radar articleRDR57Jun 2, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language; 1 source link; access model: Pricing not verifiedarxiv.org
47CARA: Concept-Aware Risk Attention for Interpretable Collision Anticipationhttp://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22494v1paperResearch-onlyarxiv-aiRDR57Jul 24, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language; 1 source link; access model: Research-onlyarxiv.org
48IT-Help-San-Diego/calibration-scopeRust repositoryrepoOpen sourceGitHubRDR57Jul 29, 2026Matched vision-language, vision language; 1 source link; access model: Open source; open weights signalgithub.com

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