diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 072af4c91..6314aa6af 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -72,10 +72,10 @@ Plus support for **CogView-4**, **SANA 1.5**, new CLiP models, improvements to r
   - new [Caption](https://github.com/vladmandic/sdnext/wiki/Caption) guide  
   - new [VAE](https://github.com/vladmandic/sdnext/wiki/VAE) guide  
   - updated [SD3](https://github.com/vladmandic/sdnext/wiki/SD3) guide  
-  - updated [ZLUDA](https://github.com/vladmandic/sdnext/wiki/ZLUDA) guide
-  - updated [OpenVINO](https://github.com/vladmandic/sdnext/wiki/OpenVINO) guide
-  - updated [AMD-ROCm](https://github.com/vladmandic/sdnext/wiki/AMD-ROCm) guide
-  - upte [Intel-ARC](https://github.com/vladmandic/sdnext/wiki/Intel-ARC) guide
+  - updated [ZLUDA](https://github.com/vladmandic/sdnext/wiki/ZLUDA) guide  
+  - updated [OpenVINO](https://github.com/vladmandic/sdnext/wiki/OpenVINO) guide  
+  - updated [AMD-ROCm](https://github.com/vladmandic/sdnext/wiki/AMD-ROCm) guide  
+  - upte [Intel-ARC](https://github.com/vladmandic/sdnext/wiki/Intel-ARC) guide  
 - **Remote VAE**  
   - add support for remote vae encode in addition to remote vae decode  
   - used by *img2img, inpaint, hires, detailer*  
@@ -83,9 +83,11 @@ Plus support for **CogView-4**, **SANA 1.5**, new CLiP models, improvements to r
   - add remote vae info to metadata, thanks @iDeNoh  
   - remote vae use `scaling_factor` and `shift_factor`  
 - **Caption/VLM**  
-  - [Google Gemma 3 4B](https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-3-4b-it)  
+  - [Google Gemma 3](https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-3-4b-it) 4B  
     simply select from list of available models in caption tab  
-  - add option to set system prompt for vlm models that support it: *Gemma, Smol, Qwen*
+  - [ByteDance/Sa2VA](https://huggingface.co/ByteDance/Sa2VA-1B) 1B, 4B  
+    simply select from list of available models in caption tab  
+  - add option to set system prompt for vlm models that support it: *Gemma, Smol, Qwen*  
 - [NudeNet](https://github.com/vladmandic/sd-extension-nudenet/) extension updates  
   - add detection of prompt language and alphabet and filter based on those values  
   - add image policy checks using `LlavaGuard` VLM to detect policy violations (and reasons)  
diff --git a/modules/interrogate/vqa.py b/modules/interrogate/vqa.py
index 2bdec3543..3db5251e8 100644
--- a/modules/interrogate/vqa.py
+++ b/modules/interrogate/vqa.py
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ vlm_models = {
     "AIDC Ovis2 1B": "AIDC-AI/Ovis2-1B",
     "AIDC Ovis2 2B": "AIDC-AI/Ovis2-2B",
     "AIDC Ovis2 4B": "AIDC-AI/Ovis2-4B",
+    "ByteDance Sa2VA 1B": "ByteDance/Sa2VA-1B",
+    "ByteDance Sa2VA 4B": "ByteDance/Sa2VA-4B",
     # "OpenGVLab InternVL 2.5 1B": "OpenGVLab/InternVL2_5-1B"
     # "DeepSeek VL2 Tiny": "deepseek-ai/deepseek-vl2-tiny", # broken
     # "nVidia Eagle 2 1B": "nvidia/Eagle2-1B", # not compatible with latest transformers
@@ -72,7 +74,7 @@ def b64(image):
 
 
 def clean(response, question):
-    strip = ['---', '\r', '\t', '**', '"', '“', '”', 'Assistant:', 'Caption:']
+    strip = ['---', '\r', '\t', '**', '"', '“', '”', 'Assistant:', 'Caption:', '<|im_end|>']
     if isinstance(response, dict):
         if 'task' in response:
             response = response['task']
@@ -451,6 +453,39 @@ def florence(question: str, image: Image.Image, repo: str = None, revision: str
     return response
 
 
+def sa2(question: str, image: Image.Image, repo: str = None):
+    global processor, model, loaded # pylint: disable=global-statement
+    if model is None or loaded != repo:
+        model = transformers.AutoModel.from_pretrained(
+            repo,
+            torch_dtype=devices.dtype,
+            low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
+            use_flash_attn=False,
+            trust_remote_code=True)
+        model = model.eval()
+        processor = transformers.AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
+            repo,
+            trust_remote_code=True,
+            use_fast=False,
+        )
+        loaded = repo
+    model = model.to(devices.device, devices.dtype)
+    if question.startswith('<'):
+        task = question.split('>', 1)[0] + '>'
+    else:
+        task = '<MORE_DETAILED_CAPTION>'
+    input_dict = {
+        'image': image,
+        'text': f'<image>{task}',
+        'past_text': '',
+        'mask_prompts': None,
+        'tokenizer': processor,
+        }
+    return_dict = model.predict_forward(**input_dict)
+    response = return_dict["prediction"] # the text format answer
+    return response
+
+
 def interrogate(question, system_prompt, prompt, image, model_name, quiet:bool=False):
     if not quiet:
         shared.state.begin('Interrogate')
@@ -516,6 +551,8 @@ def interrogate(question, system_prompt, prompt, image, model_name, quiet:bool=F
             answer = gemma(question, image, vqa_model, system_prompt)
         elif 'ovis' in vqa_model.lower():
             answer = ovis(question, image, vqa_model)
+        elif 'sa2' in vqa_model.lower():
+            answer = sa2(question, image, vqa_model)
         else:
             answer = 'unknown model'
     except Exception as e: