[PR #11163] docs(modelfile): document creating vision models #13460

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opened 2026-04-13 00:27:54 -05:00 by GiteaMirror · 0 comments
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Original Pull Request: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/11163

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Add note on how to create Ollama models with vision capabilities by providing a mmproj file and using the directory rather than the single model GGUF.

Reason for adding this: I've seen multiple people incorrectly stating things like "Ollama can't create vision models unless you create a single GGUF with the mmproj embedded", I suspected this wasn't true and after reading through the current codebase I found simply providing both files in the same directory works.


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**Original Pull Request:** https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/11163 **State:** open **Merged:** No --- Add note on how to create Ollama models with vision capabilities by providing a mmproj file and using the directory rather than the single model GGUF. Reason for adding this: I've seen multiple people incorrectly stating things like "Ollama can't create vision models unless you create a single GGUF with the mmproj embedded", I suspected this wasn't true and after reading through the current codebase I found simply providing both files in the same directory works. --- Related: - https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/9967 - https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/issues/2248 - https://github.com/covercash2/modelfile/pull/19 - https://www.reddit.com/r/ollama/comments/1jdkevi/creating_gemma_3_from_gguf_with_mmproj_not_working/
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Reference: github-starred/ollama#13460