OmniParser: Icon Description Model

Open weights Microsoft Research August 2024

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No hardware requirements for this model

This model's weights are open, but no parameter count has been published for it. Every memory and speed figure starts from that number, so we would rather show nothing than a fabricated estimate.

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Origin

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Organisation
Microsoft Research
Organisation type
Industry
Country
United States of America
Published
1 August 2024
Authors
Yadong Lu, Jianwei Yang, Yelong Shen, Ahmed Awadallah

What it does

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Domain
Vision
Task
Image captioning
Base model
BLIP-2 (Q-Former)

Size

How large the model is and how much data it was trained on. Parameters are the figure that decides whether it fits on a given graphics card.

Training data
tokens

"We finetune BLIP-2 model for 1 epoch on the generated dataset with constant learning rate of 1e−5 ,no weight decay and Adam optimizer. " "We we curate a dataset of 7k icon-description pairs using GPT-4o, and finetune a BLIP-v2 model [LLSH23] on this dataset" "we collected 7185 icon-description pairs for finetuning"

Epochs
1

Availability

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Weights
Open — downloadable
Model access
Open weights (unrestricted)

How it is classified

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Record confidence
Confident

Sources

Where this record came from and when it was last checked.

Reference
OmniParser for Pure Vision Based GUI Agent
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

What this model is

OmniParser: Icon Description Model was published by Microsoft Research, in United States of America, in August 2024. The organisation is categorised as industry.

It works in Vision, and is recorded as doing image captioning.

Its starting point was BLIP-2 (Q-Former) — most models at this scale are adapted from an existing base rather than built from nothing.

The weights being open is what puts this page in the calculator rather than only in the catalogue: it is a model you can actually hold.

Answers

OmniParser: Icon Description Model — common questions

01

What GPU do I need to run OmniParser: Icon Description Model?

We cannot say. OmniParser: Icon Description Model has open weights, but no parameter count has been published for it, and every memory and speed calculation starts from that number. We would rather show nothing than a fabricated estimate.

02

Is OmniParser: Icon Description Model open source?

Its weights are published, so OmniParser: Icon Description Model can be downloaded and run on your own hardware. Note that open weights is not the same as open source in the full sense — it says nothing about the training data, the training code, or the commercial terms attached.

03

How many parameters does OmniParser: Icon Description Model have?

No parameter count has been published for OmniParser: Icon Description Model, which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.

04

Who created OmniParser: Icon Description Model?

OmniParser: Icon Description Model was published by Microsoft Research, based in United States of America, categorised as industry.

05

When was OmniParser: Icon Description Model released?

OmniParser: Icon Description Model was published in August 2024. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

06

What is OmniParser: Icon Description Model used for?

OmniParser: Icon Description Model works in Vision, and is recorded as handling image captioning. Models frequently carry more than one of each, and the tags describe purpose rather than capability limits.

07

Where can I download OmniParser: Icon Description Model?

The weights for OmniParser: Icon Description Model are published, though we do not hold a repository link for it. This site calculates hardware requirements rather than hosting model files.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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