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Intern-S1: A Scientific Multimodal Foundation Model

arXiv 2508.15763 ↗First posted 21 Aug 2025cs.LG cs.CL cs.CVcited by 53

On the map: Mixture-of-experts → MoE theory and gating functions

Abstract (arXiv)

In recent years, a plethora of open-source foundation models have emerged, achieving remarkable progress in some widely attended fields, with performance being quite close to that of closed-source models. However, in high-value but more challenging scientific professional fields, either the fields still rely on expert models, or the progress of general foundation models lags significantly compared to those in popular areas, far from sufficient for transforming scientific research and leaving substantial gap between open-source models and closed-source models in these scientific domains. To mitigate this gap and explore a step further toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), we introduce Intern-S1, a specialized generalist equipped with general understanding and reasoning capabilities with expertise to analyze multiple science modal data. Intern-S1 is a multimodal Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 28 billion activated parameters and 241 billion total parameters, continually pre-trained on 5T tokens, including over 2.5T tokens from scientific domains. In the post-training stage, Intern-S1 undergoes offline and then online reinforcement learning (RL) in InternBootCamp, where we propose Mixture-of-Rewards (MoR) to synergize the RL training on more than 1000 tasks simultaneously. Through integrated innovations in algorithms, data, and training systems, Intern-S1 achieved top-tier performance in online RL training. On comprehensive evaluation benchmarks, Intern-S1 demonstrates competitive performance on general reasoning tasks among open-source models and significantly outperforms open-source models in scientific domains, surpassing closed-source state-of-the-art models in professional tasks, such as molecular synthesis planning, reaction condition prediction, predicting thermodynamic stabilities for crystals. Our models are available at https://huggingface.co/internlm/Intern-S1.

Key facts. Cited by 53 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in MoE theory and gating functions, one of 12 directions in Mixture-of-experts. Builds on 57 of its 75 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 21 Aug 2025.

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  6. 2025MM-HELIX: Boosting Multimodal Long-Chain Reflective Reasoning with Holistic Platform and Adaptive Hybrid Policy Optimizationcited by 4
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  9. 2025Unleashing Scientific Reasoning for Bio-experimental Protocol Generation via Structured Component-based Reward Mechanismcited by 3
  10. 2025ARCHE: A Novel Task to Evaluate LLMs on Latent Reasoning Chain Extractioncited by 3
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  17. 2026SCI-PRM: A Tool Aware Process Reward Model for Scientific Reasoning Verificationcited by 2
  18. 2026S1-Omni-Image: A Unified Model for Scientific Image Understanding, Generation, and Editingcited by 2
  19. 2025SpecMol: A Spectroscopy-Grounded Foundation Model for Multi-Task Molecular Learningcited by 1
  20. 2025RedOne 2.0: Rethinking Domain-specific LLM Post-Training in Social Networking Servicescited by 1
  21. 2025Understanding the Effects of Distractors on Reasoning Vision-Language Modelscited by 1
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