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Cosmos-Reason1: Physical AI Common Sense and Embodied Reasoning Models

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Model Overview

Description:

NVIDIA Cosmos Reason – an open, customizable, 7B-parameter reasoning vision language model (VLM) for physical AI and robotics - enables robots and vision AI agents to reason like humans, using prior knowledge, physics understanding and common sense to understand and act in the real world. This model understands space, time, and fundamental physics, and can serve as a planning model to reason what steps an embodied agent might take next.

Cosmos Reason excels at navigating the long tail of diverse scenarios of the physical world with spatial-temporal understanding. Cosmos Reason is post-trained with physical common sense and embodied reasoning data with supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning. It uses chain-of-thought reasoning capabilities to understand world dynamics without human annotations.

Given a video/image and a text prompt, the model first converts the video/image into tokens using a vision encoder and a special translator called a projector. These video tokens are combined with the text prompt and fed into the core model, which uses a mix of LLM modules and techniques. This enables the model to think step-by-step and provide detailed, logical responses.

Cosmos Reason can be used for robotics and physical AI applications including:

• Data curation and annotation — Enable developers to automate high-quality curation and annotation of massive, diverse training datasets.
• Robot planning and reasoning — Act as the brain for deliberate, methodical decision-making in a robot vision language action (VLA) model. Now robots such as humanoids and autonomous vehicles can interpret environments and given complex commands, break them down into tasks and execute them using common sense, even in unfamiliar environments.
• Video analytics AI agents — Extract valuable insights and perform root-cause analysis on massive volumes of video data. These agents can be used to analyze and understand recorded or live video streams across city and industrial operations.

The model is ready for commercial use.

Model Developer: NVIDIA

Model Versions

The Cosmos-Reason1 includes the following model:

• Cosmos-Reason1-7B: Given a text prompt and an input video, think and generate the answer with respect to the input text prompt and video.

License:

This model is released under the NVIDIA Open Model License. Additional Information: Apache License 2.0.

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Deployment Geography:

Global

Use Case:

Physical AI: Space, time, fundamental physics understanding and embodied reasoning, encompassing robotics, and autonomous vehicles (AV).

Release Date:

• Github: 05/17/2025
• Huggingface:
  • 08/01/2025. Shipped a few improvements which include captions with temporal timestamp, Set of Mark prompting.
  • 06/10/2025. Enhanced critic capability for physical plausibility.
  • 05/17/2025. Initial release.

Model Architecture:

Architecture Type: A Multi-modal LLM consists of a Vision Transformer (ViT) for vision encoder and a Dense Transformer model for LLM. Network Architecture: Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct.

Cosmos-Reason-7B is post-trained based on Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct and follows the same model architecture.

Number of model parameters:

Cosmos-Reason1-7B:<br>

• Vision Transformer (ViT): 675.76M (675,759,104)
• Language Model (LLM): 7.07B (7,070,619,136)
• Other components (output projection layer): 545.00M (544,997,376)

Computational Load:

• Cumulative Compute: 3.2603016e+21 FLOPS
• Estimated Energy and Emissions for Model Training:
  • Total kWh = 16658432
  • Total Emissions (tCO2e) = 5380.674

Input

Input Type(s): Text+Video/Image

Input Format(s):

• Text: String
• Video: mp4
• Image: jpg

Input Parameters:

• Text: One-dimensional (1D)
• Video: Three-dimensional (3D)
• Image: Two-dimensional (2D)

Other Properties Related to Input:

• Use FPS=4 for input video to match the training setup.
• Append Answer the question in the following format: <think>\nyour reasoning\n</think>\n\n<answer>\nyour answer\n</answer>. in the system prompt to encourage long chain-of-thought reasoning response.

Output

Output Type(s): Text

Output Format: String

Output Parameters: Text: One-dimensional (1D)

Other Properties Related to Output:

• Recommend using 4096 or more output max tokens to avoid truncation of long chain-of-thought response.

• Our AI model recognizes timestamps added at the bottom of each frame for accurate temporal localization.

• Our AI models are designed and/or optimized to run on NVIDIA GPU-accelerated systems. By leveraging NVIDIA’s hardware (e.g. GPU cores) and software frameworks (e.g., CUDA libraries), the model achieves faster training and inference times compared to CPU-only solutions. <br>

Software Integration

Runtime Engine(s):

• vLLM

Supported Hardware Microarchitecture Compatibility:

• NVIDIA Blackwell
• NVIDIA Hopper

Note: We have only tested doing inference with BF16 precision.

Operating System(s):

• Linux (We have not tested on other operating systems.)

Usage

See Cosmos-Reason1 for details.

• Post Training: Cosmos-Reason1 provides examples of supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning on embodied reasoning datasets.

Training and Evaluation Sections:

05/17/2025

Please see our technical paper for detailed evaluations on physical common sense and embodied reasoning. Part of the evaluation datasets are released under Cosmos-Reason1-Benchmark. The embodied reasoning datasets and benchmarks focus on the following areas: robotics (RoboVQA, BridgeDataV2, Agibot, RobFail), ego-centric human demonstration (HoloAssist), and Autonomous Vehicle (AV) driving video data. The AV dataset is collected and annotated by NVIDIA.

All datasets go through the data annotation process described in the technical paper to prepare training and evaluation data and annotations.

08/01/2025

We enhance the model capability with the augmented training data. PLM-Video-Human and Nexar are used to enable dense temporal captioning. Describe Anything is added to enhance a set of mark (SoM) prompting. We enrich data in intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and warehouse applications. Lastly, Visual Critics dataset contains a collection of AI generated videos from Cosmos-Predict2 and Wan2.1 with human annotations to describe the physical correctness in AI videos.

Training Datasets:

Data Collection Method:

• RoboVQA: Hybrid: Automatic/Sensors
• BridgeDataV2: Automatic/Sensors
• AgiBot: Automatic/Sensors
• RoboFail: Automatic/Sensors
• HoloAssist: Human
• AV: Automatic/Sensors
• PLM-Video-Human: Human
• Nexar: Automatic/Sensors
• Describe Anything: Human
• ITS / Warehouse: Human, Automatic
• Visual Critics: Automatic

Labeling Method:

• RoboVQA: Hybrid: Human,Automated
• BridgeDataV2: Hybrid: Human,Automated
• AgiBot: Hybrid: Human,Automated
• RoboFail: Hybrid: Human,Automated
• HoloAssist: Hybrid: Human,Automated
• AV: Hybrid: Human,Automated
• PLM-Video-Human: Human,Automated
• Nexar: Human
• Describe Anything: Human,Automated
• ITS / Warehouse: Human, Automated
• Visual Critics: Human,Automated

Evaluation Datasets:

Data Collection Method:

• RoboVQA: Hybrid: Automatic/Sensors
• BridgeDataV2: Automatic/Sensors
• AgiBot: Automatic/Sensors
• RoboFail: Automatic/Sensors
• HoloAssist: Human
• AV: Automatic/Sensors

Labeling Method:

• RoboVQA: Hybrid: Human,Automated
• BridgeDataV2: Hybrid: Human,Automated
• AgiBot: Hybrid: Human,Automated
• RoboFail: Hybrid: Human,Automated
• HoloAssist: Hybrid: Human,Automated
• AV: Hybrid: Human,Automated

Metrics: We report the model accuracy on the embodied reasoning benchmark introduced in Cosmos-Reason1. The results differ from those presented in Table 9 due to additional training aimed at supporting a broader range of Physical AI tasks beyond the benchmark.

Dataset Format

Modality: Video (mp4) and Text

Dataset Quantification

05/17/2025

We release the embodied reasoning data and benchmarks. Each data sample is a pair of video and text. The text annotations include understanding and reasoning annotations described in the Cosmos-Reason1 paper. Each video may have multiple text annotations. The quantity of the video and text pairs is described in the table below. The AV data is currently unavailable and will be uploaded soon!

We release text annotations for all embodied reasoning datasets and videos for RoboVQA and AV datasets. For other datasets, users may download the source videos from the original data source and find corresponding video sources via the video names. The held-out RoboFail benchmark is released for measuring the generalization capability.

08/01/2025

Inference:

Test Hardware: H100, A100, GB200 <br>

[!NOTE] We suggest using fps=4 for the input video and max_tokens=4096 to avoid truncated response.

from transformers import AutoProcessor
from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
from qwen_vl_utils import process_vision_info

# You can also replace the MODEL_PATH by a safetensors folder path mentioned above
MODEL_PATH = "nvidia/Cosmos-Reason1-7B"

llm = LLM(
    model=MODEL_PATH,
    limit_mm_per_prompt={"image": 10, "video": 10},
)

sampling_params = SamplingParams(
    temperature=0.6,
    top_p=0.95,
    repetition_penalty=1.05,
    max_tokens=4096,
)

video_messages = [
    {"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant. Answer the question in the following format: <think>\nyour reasoning\n</think>\n\n<answer>\nyour answer\n</answer>."},
    {"role": "user", "content": [
            {"type": "text", "text": (
                    "Is it safe to turn right?"
                )
            },
            {
                "type": "video", 
                "video": "file:///path/to/your/video.mp4",
                "fps": 4,
            }
        ]
    },
]

# Here we use video messages as a demonstration
messages = video_messages

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(MODEL_PATH)
prompt = 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)

mm_data = {}
if image_inputs is not None:
    mm_data["image"] = image_inputs
if video_inputs is not None:
    mm_data["video"] = video_inputs

llm_inputs = {
    "prompt": prompt,
    "multi_modal_data": mm_data,

    # FPS will be returned in video_kwargs
    "mm_processor_kwargs": video_kwargs,
}

outputs = llm.generate([llm_inputs], sampling_params=sampling_params)
generated_text = outputs[0].outputs[0].text

print(generated_text)

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