Tar-7B: access, sources and model facts

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What to know about Tar-7B

AI-compiled from linked model documentation. This is a catalog reference, not an independent performance review. Catalog checked October 23, 2026.

Which Tar-7B does this page describe?

Tar-7B is a model record from ByteDance Seed in the Tar family. Source

The recorded model identifier or checkpoint is Tar-7B. Use that exact identifier when checking documentation or a provider listing. Source

How can you access Tar-7B?

The catalog documents Open weights access for Tar-7B. Source

As of the catalog check, this version was listed as available. Source

Open weights means the model weights are distributed for use under their stated terms. It does not establish a hosted API, an open-source license, or a hardware requirement.

What license is recorded for Tar-7B?

The recorded license label is apache-2.0. Source

Read the linked license and associated use terms for this exact version before redistribution, commercial deployment or fine-tuning. A label alone does not establish every permission, restriction or obligation, and it does not determine the terms of a separate hosted service.

What distinguishes Tar-7B?

These details come from the linked publisher material for this model. Reported capabilities and training descriptions are publisher statements, not independent test results.

Research purpose: Unified visual understanding and generation using text-aligned representations. Source
Declared language backbone: Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct Source
Visual processing pipeline: The released pipeline includes text-to-image generation with an autoregressive image de-tokenizer. Source

What is documented about the Tar-7B checkpoint?

This evidence refers to ByteDance-Seed/Tar-7B at recorded revision b137de641a0a1d3262fdc7d9e7f8ee5c48ac1467, checked October 23, 2026. Repository metadata

Safetensors metadata records 8,690,574,534 stored parameters. This is a stored-weight count, not necessarily the number activated per token, a download size or a GPU-memory requirement. Repository metadata

Recorded architecture class: LlavaQwenForCausalLM. Repository metadata

Repository task tag: any-to-any. A task tag identifies a distribution category; it does not measure performance on that task. Repository metadata

Repository access gate: false. This records the repository's gate setting when checked; licensing and use terms still apply. Repository metadata

What the configuration file says

The pinned config.json contains these values. Pinned configuration

max_position_embeddings: 32,768
sliding_window: 131,072
torch_dtype: bfloat16
num_attention_heads: 28
num_key_value_heads: 4
num_hidden_layers: 28
hidden_size: 3,584

Configuration values describe the checkpoint and its implementation. In particular, max_position_embeddings, sliding_window and rope_scaling do not independently establish an API context limit, tested usable length or hardware requirement. Runtime, quantization, cache, batch size and input length affect deployment behavior.

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Other Tar models from ByteDance Seed.

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The documented record

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A missing value remains unknown. Input limits, output limits and the total context window are separate measurements.

Publisher: ByteDance SeedSource ↗
Family: TarSource ↗
Version: Tar-7BSource ↗
Availability: AvailableSource ↗
Access: Open weightsSource ↗
Inputs: Not documented
Outputs: Not documented
Context window: Not documented
Maximum input: Not documented
Maximum output: Not documented
Knowledge cutoff: Not documented
Training-data cutoff: Not documented
Training completed: Not documented
Release date: Not documented
License: apache-2.0Source ↗
Input price / 1M tokens: Not documented
Output price / 1M tokens: Not documented

Read this with the numbers.

Official publisher weight listing; availability refers to this distribution, not a guaranteed hosted API. Base, SFT and research variants are identified by their exact published names. Publisher repository evidence (2026-10-23): Publisher task label: any-to-any. Published architecture metadata: LlavaQwenForCausalLM. Published safetensors metadata counts 8,690,574,534 stored parameters; this is not an active-parameter count for mixture-of-experts models. Published configuration: max_position_embeddings=32768; sliding_window=131072; dtype=bfloat16; 28 hidden layers. Checkpoint configuration is not a verified hosted serving limit; context and output limits remain separate documented fields.

Model identifiers and aliases 1

ByteDance-Seed/Tar-7B

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Official sources.

Tar-7B official model card ↗huggingface.co
Tar-7B: official publisher repository metadata ↗huggingface.co
Tar-7B — official model card ↗huggingface.co
Tar-7B: published checkpoint configuration at revision b137de641a0a ↗huggingface.co
Official model research and documentation ↗raw.githubusercontent.com

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Inputs: Not documented
Outputs: Not documented
Context window: Not documented
Knowledge cutoff: Not documented

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