Model Card for Memories-S0
Memories-S0 is a highly efficient, 3-billion-parameter video understanding model designed specifically for the security and surveillance domain. It leverages synthetic data generation (via Veo 3) and extreme optimization strategies to achieve state-of-the-art performance on edge devices.
Model Details
- Model Name: Memories-S0
- Organization: Memories.ai Research
- Model Architecture: 3B Parameter VideoLLM
- Release Date: Jan 2026
- License: Apache 2.0
- Paper: Memories-SO: An Efficient and Accurate Framework for Security Video Understanding
- Code Repository: https://github.com/Memories-ai-labs/memories-s0
Model Description
Memories-S0 is designed to address two key challenges in security video understanding: data scarcity and deployment efficiency on resource-constrained devices.
- Data Innovation: The model is pre-trained on a massive, diverse set of synthetic surveillance videos generated by advanced video generation models (like Veo 3). This allows for pixel-perfect annotations and covers diverse scenarios (e.g., dimly lit hallways, unattended packages).
- Extreme Efficiency: It utilizes an innovative input token compression algorithm that dynamically prunes redundant background tokens, focusing computation on foreground objects and motion. This allows the 3B model to run efficiently on mobile/edge hardware.
- Post-Training: The model employs a unique post-training strategy using Reinforcement Learning (RL) and event-based temporal shuffling to enhance sequential understanding without expensive full fine-tuning.
Installation
conda create -n memories-s0 python=3.10 -y
conda activate memories-s0
# Install PyTorch with CUDA support
pip install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url <https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu121>
# Install dependencies for Qwen2.5-VL architecture and Flash Attention
pip install transformers>=4.37.0 accelerate qwen_vl_utils
pip install flash-attn --no-build-isolation
Inference
The following script demonstrates how to run the Memories-S0 model. It automatically handles the loading of weights from the official Hugging Face repository.
import torch
import argparse
from transformers import Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration, AutoProcessor
from qwen_vl_utils import process_vision_info
# Official Model Repository
MODEL_ID = "Memories-ai/security_model"
def run_inference(video_path, model_id=MODEL_ID):
# Load Model with Flash Attention 2 for efficiency
model = Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
model_id,
torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
attn_implementation="flash_attention_2",
device_map="auto",
)
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_id, trust_remote_code=True)
# Define Security Analysis Prompt
prompt_text = """YOUR_PROMPT"""
messages = [
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{"type": "video", "video": video_path},
{"type": "text", "text": prompt_text},
],
}
]
# Preprocessing
text = processor.apply_chat_template(messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True)
image_inputs, video_inputs, video_kwargs = process_vision_info(messages, return_video_kwargs=True)
inputs = processor(
text=[text],
images=image_inputs,
videos=video_inputs,
padding=True,
return_tensors="pt",
**video_kwargs,
)
inputs = inputs.to("cuda")
# Generate
generated_ids = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=768)
generated_ids_trimmed = [
out_ids[len(in_ids):] for in_ids, out_ids in zip(inputs.input_ids, generated_ids)
]
output_text = processor.batch_decode(
generated_ids_trimmed, skip_special_tokens=True, clean_up_tokenization_spaces=False
)
print(output_text[0])
if __name__ == "__main__":
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("--video_path", type=str, required=True, help="Path to input video")
args = parser.parse_args()
run_inference(args.video_path)
Intended Use
Primary Use Cases
- Security & Surveillance: Detecting anomalies, tracking suspicious activities, and monitoring public safety.
- Smart Home Monitoring: Analyzing video feeds for unusual events (e.g., falls, intruders) as benchmarked on SmartHomeBench.
- Edge Computing: Deploying high-performance video analysis directly on cameras or local gateways with limited memory and compute power.
Out-of-Scope Use Cases
- General open-domain video understanding (e.g., movie classification) may not be optimal as the model is specialized for surveillance angles and events.
- Biometric identification (Face Recognition) is not the primary design goal; the focus is on action and event understanding.
Performance (SmartHomeBench)
We evaluated Memories-S0(3B) on the SmartHomeBench dataset, a recognized benchmark for smart home video anomaly detection.
Despite having only 3B parameters, our model achieves an F1-score of 79.21 using a simple Zero-shot prompt, surpassing larger models like VILA-13b and performing competitively against GPT-4o and Claude-3.5-Sonnet (which require complex Chain-of-Thought prompting).
| Model | Params | Prompting Method | Accuracy | Precision | Recall | F1-score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memories-S0 (Ours) | 3B | Zero-shot | 71.33 | 73.04 | 86.51 | 79.21 |
| VILA-13b | 13B | Few-shot CoT | 67.17 | 69.18 | 70.57 | 69.87 |
| GPT-4o | Closed | Zero-shot | 68.41 | 80.09 | 55.16 | 65.33 |
| Gemini-1.5-Pro | Closed | Zero-shot | 57.36 | 84.34 | 25.73 | 39.43 |
Citation
If you use this model or framework in your research, please cite our technical report:
@techreport{memories_s0_2025,
title = {{Memories-S0}: An Efficient and Accurate Framework for Security Video Understanding},
author = {{Memories.ai Research}},
institution = {Memories.ai},
year = {2025},
month = oct,
url = {https://huggingface.co/Memories-ai/security_model},
note = {Accessed: 2025-11-20}
}
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