diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d031945..de9795e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ Join our <a href="docs/wechat.md" target="_blank"> 💬 WeChat</a>
 
 #### 📌 Pinned
 
+* [2024.08.15] We now also support multi-image SFT. For more details, please refer to the [finetune/README.md](https://github.com/OpenBMB/MiniCPM-V/tree/main/finetune) file.
 * [2024.08.14] MiniCPM-V 2.6 now also supports [fine-tuning](https://github.com/modelscope/ms-swift/issues/1613) with the SWIFT framework!
 * [2024.08.10] 🚀🚀🚀 MiniCPM-Llama3-V 2.5 is now fully supported by [official](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp) llama.cpp! GGUF models of various sizes are available [here](https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM-Llama3-V-2_5-gguf). Please note that MiniCPM-V 2.6 still needs to use [our fork](https://github.com/OpenBMB/llama.cpp/blob/minicpmv-main/examples/llava/README-minicpmv2.6.md).
 * [2024.08.06] 🔥🔥🔥 We open-source MiniCPM-V 2.6, which outperforms GPT-4V on single image, multi-image and video understanding. It advances popular features of MiniCPM-Llama3-V 2.5, and can support real-time video understanding on iPad. Try it now!
diff --git a/README_zh.md b/README_zh.md
index 499ab7e..1d59211 100644
--- a/README_zh.md
+++ b/README_zh.md
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 ## 更新日志 <!-- omit in toc -->
 
 #### 📌 置顶
-
+* [2024.08.15] MiniCPM-V 2.6 现在支持多图像 SFT。有关更多详细信息，请参阅[finetune/README.md](https://github.com/OpenBMB/MiniCPM-V/tree/main/finetune)
 * [2024.08.14] MiniCPM-V 2.6 现在可以通过 SWIFT 框架 [微调](https://github.com/modelscope/ms-swift/issues/1613) 了！
 * [2024.08.10] 🚀🚀🚀 llama.cpp [官方仓库](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp)正式支持 MiniCPM-Llama3-V 2.5 啦！点击[这里](https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM-Llama3-V-2_5-gguf/tree/main)查看各种大小的 GGUF 版本。但还请使用者注意 MiniCPM-V 2.6 仍然需要**拉取我们最新的 fork 来使用**：[llama.cpp](https://github.com/OpenBMB/llama.cpp/blob/minicpmv-main/examples/llava/README-minicpmv2.6.md) 。我们将继续积极推进将这些功能合并到 llama.cpp 官方仓库
 * [2024.08.06] 🔥🔥🔥 我们开源了 MiniCPM-V 2.6，该模型在单图、多图和视频理解方面取得了优于 GPT-4V 的表现。我们还进一步提升了 MiniCPM-Llama3-V 2.5 的多项亮点能力，并首次支持了 iPad 上的实时视频理解。欢迎试用！
diff --git a/finetune/dataset.py b/finetune/dataset.py
index 09dadcc..dbf6bbc 100644
--- a/finetune/dataset.py
+++ b/finetune/dataset.py
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ import json
 import logging
 import math
 import os
+import re
+import random
 from dataclasses import dataclass, field
 from typing import Dict, List, Optional
 
@@ -12,6 +14,9 @@ from PIL import Image
 from torch.nn.utils.rnn import pad_sequence
 from torch.utils.data import Dataset
 from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoTokenizer
+import logging
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 llama3_chat_template = "{% set loop_messages = messages %}{% for message in loop_messages %}{% set content = '<|start_header_id|>' + message['role'] + '<|end_header_id|>\n\n'+ message['content'] | trim + '<|eot_id|>' %}{% if loop.index0 == 0 %}{% set content = bos_token + content %}{% endif %}{{ content }}{% endfor %}"
 
@@ -28,6 +33,7 @@ class SupervisedDataset(Dataset):
         patch_size=14,
         query_nums=64,
         batch_vision=False,
+        max_length=2048,
     ):
         super(SupervisedDataset, self).__init__()
         self.raw_data = raw_data
@@ -38,35 +44,46 @@ class SupervisedDataset(Dataset):
         self.patch_size = patch_size
         self.query_nums=query_nums
         self.batch_vision = batch_vision
+        self.max_length = max_length
 
     def __len__(self):
         return len(self.raw_data)
 
     def __getitem__(self, i) -> Dict[str, torch.Tensor]:
-        image = Image.open(self.raw_data[i]["image"]).convert("RGB")
-        ret = preprocess(
-            image,
-            self.raw_data[i]["conversations"],
-            self.tokenizer,
-            self.transform,
-            query_nums=self.query_nums,
-            slice_config=self.slice_config,
-            llm_type=self.llm_type,
-            patch_size=self.patch_size,
-            batch_vision=self.batch_vision,
-        )
-        ret = dict(
-            input_ids=ret["input_ids"],
-            position_ids=ret["position_ids"],
-            labels=ret["target"],
-            attention_mask=torch.ones_like(ret["input_ids"], dtype=torch.bool),
-            pixel_values=ret["pixel_values"],
-            tgt_sizes=ret["tgt_sizes"],
-            image_bound=ret["image_bound"],
-        )
-
+        try:
+            if isinstance(self.raw_data[i]["image"], str):
+                images_dict = { "<image>" : Image.open(self.raw_data[i]["image"]).convert("RGB") }
+            elif isinstance(self.raw_data[i]["image"], Dict):
+                ### for multi-images input, the template for every image is <image_xx>, such as <image_00>, <image_01>
+                images_dict = {img_name : Image.open(img_path).convert("RGB") for img_name, img_path in self.raw_data[i]["image"].items()}
+                
+            ret = preprocess(
+                images_dict,
+                self.raw_data[i]["conversations"],
+                self.tokenizer,
+                self.transform,
+                query_nums=self.query_nums,
+                slice_config=self.slice_config,
+                llm_type=self.llm_type,
+                patch_size=self.patch_size,
+                batch_vision=self.batch_vision,
+                max_length=self.max_length
+            )
+            ret = dict(
+                input_ids=ret["input_ids"],
+                position_ids=ret["position_ids"],
+                labels=ret["target"],
+                attention_mask=torch.ones_like(ret["input_ids"], dtype=torch.bool),
+                pixel_values=ret["pixel_values"],
+                tgt_sizes=ret["tgt_sizes"],
+                image_bound=ret["image_bound"],
+            )
+        except:
+            logger.error(f"data fetch error")
+            return self.__getitem__(random.randint(0, len(self)))
         return ret
 
+        
 def data_collator(examples, padding_value=0, max_length=2048):
     def trim_and_pad(seq, batch_first, padding_value):
         return pad_sequence([s[:max_length] for s in seq], batch_first=True, padding_value=padding_value)
@@ -105,7 +122,7 @@ def data_collator(examples, padding_value=0, max_length=2048):
     }
 
 
-def conversation_to_ids(conversation, tokenizer, llm_type=None, new_schema=False):
+def conversation_to_ids(conversation, tokenizer, llm_type=None, new_schema=False, max_length=2048):
     """
     for single image multi-turn conversation
     conversation: [{'role': 'user', 'content': 'Describe this image'},
@@ -126,6 +143,14 @@ def conversation_to_ids(conversation, tokenizer, llm_type=None, new_schema=False
 
     ids = torch.from_numpy(np.hstack(input_ids, dtype=np.int32))
     context = torch.from_numpy(np.hstack(context, dtype=np.int8))
+    if input_ids.shape[-1] > max_length:
+        ids =ids[:max_length]
+        context = context[:max_length]
+        logger.warning(f"The input length ({input_ids.shape[-1]}) exceeds the model's maximum length ({max_length}), so it has been truncated")
+    
+    if torch.all(context):
+        logger.error("No tokens available to compute loss.")
+        raise Exception("No tokens available to compute loss.")
 
     # build target
     target = torch.full_like(ids, -100, dtype=torch.int32)
@@ -151,7 +176,8 @@ def conversation_to_ids(conversation, tokenizer, llm_type=None, new_schema=False
         image_start_tokens += 1
         image_end_tokens = torch.where(ids == tokenizer.im_end_id)[0]
     if len(image_start_tokens) != len(image_end_tokens):
-        print("image start token != image end tokens")
+        logger.error("image start token != image end tokens")
+        raise Exception("image start token != image end tokens")
     
     if len(image_start_tokens) > 0:
         image_bound = torch.hstack(
@@ -281,10 +307,9 @@ def conversation_to_ids_qwen2(conversation, tokenizer):
     return input_ids, context, raw_msg
 
 
-
 def preprocess(
-    image,
-    conversation,
+    images_dict,
+    conversations,
     tokenizer,
     transform,
     query_nums=64,
@@ -292,13 +317,14 @@ def preprocess(
     llm_type=None,
     patch_size=14,
     batch_vision=False,
+    max_length=2048,
 ):
     """
-    single image preprocess, the image will be placed at the top of the conversation
+    single(multi) image(s) preprocess, the image(s) will be placed at the top of the conversation
     """
-    conversation = copy.deepcopy(conversation)
-    assert len(conversation) > 1, "conversation length must large than 2"
-    assert conversation[0]["role"] == "user", "the first role must be user"
+    conversations = copy.deepcopy(conversations)
+    assert len(conversations) > 1, "conversations length must large than 2"
+    assert conversations[0]["role"] == "user", "the first role must be user"
 
     if slice_config is not None:
         assert isinstance(slice_config, Dict)
@@ -313,40 +339,69 @@ def preprocess(
     if llm_type=='qwen2':
         new_schema = True
         use_image_id = True
-    if slice_config:
-        images = []
-        image_id_cnt = 0 
-        source_image, patches, best_grid = slice_image(
-            image,
-            slice_config["max_slice_nums"],
-            slice_config["scale_resolution"],
-            slice_config["patch_size"],
-        )
-        images.append(source_image)
-        image_placeholder = default_image_placeholder
-        if len(patches) > 0:
-            for i in range(len(patches)):
-                for j in range(len(patches[0])):
-                    images.append(patches[i][j])
+    image_placeholder_dict = {}
+    images = []
+    image_id_cnt = 0 
+    for img_name, image in images_dict.items():
+        if slice_config:
+            source_image, patches, best_grid = slice_image(
+                image,
+                slice_config["max_slice_nums"],
+                slice_config["scale_resolution"],
+                slice_config["patch_size"],
+            )
+            images.append(source_image)
+            image_placeholder = default_image_placeholder
+            if len(patches) > 0:
+                for i in range(len(patches)):
+                    for j in range(len(patches[0])):
+                        images.append(patches[i][j])
+                if use_image_id:
+                    image_placeholder = f'{tokenizer.im_id_start}{image_id_cnt}{tokenizer.im_id_end}' + image_placeholder
+                    image_id_cnt += 1
+                image_placeholder += get_grid_placeholder(
+                    tokenizer, best_grid, query_nums, new_schema = new_schema)
+            image_placeholder_dict[img_name] = image_placeholder
+        else:
+            images.append(image)
             if use_image_id:
                 image_placeholder = f'{tokenizer.im_id_start}{image_id_cnt}{tokenizer.im_id_end}' + image_placeholder
                 image_id_cnt += 1
-            image_placeholder += get_grid_placeholder(
-                tokenizer, best_grid, query_nums, new_schema = new_schema)
-        images = [transform(i) for i in images]
+            else:
+                image_placeholder = default_image_placeholder
+            image_placeholder_dict[img_name] = image_placeholder
+    
+    images = [transform(i) for i in images]
+    
+    if len(images_dict) == 1 and "<image>" in images_dict:       
+        if "<image>" in conversations[0]["content"]:
+            conversations[0]["content"] = conversations[0]["content"].replace(
+                "<image>", image_placeholder
+            )
+        else:
+            conversations[0]["content"] = (
+                image_placeholder + "\n" + conversation[0]["content"]
+            )
+        input_dict = conversation_to_ids(conversations, tokenizer, llm_type, new_schema, max_length)
     else:
-        images = [transform(image)]
-        image_placeholder = default_image_placeholder
-    if "<image>" in conversation[0]["content"]:
-        conversation[0]["content"] = conversation[0]["content"].replace(
-            "<image>", image_placeholder
-        )
-    else:
-        conversation[0]["content"] = (
-            image_placeholder + "\n" + conversation[0]["content"]
-        )
-
-    input_dict = conversation_to_ids(conversation, tokenizer, llm_type, new_schema)
+        pattern = r'<image_\d+>'
+        new_conversations = []
+        for conversation in conversations:
+            content = conversation['content']
+            parts = re.split(f'({pattern})', content)
+            for i, part in enumerate(parts):
+                if not part.strip():
+                    continue
+                if re.match(pattern, part):  
+                    if part in image_placeholder_dict:
+                        parts[i] = image_placeholder_dict[part] 
+                    else:
+                        raise Exception(f"not found {part} in image dict")
+            conversation['content'] = '\n'.join(parts)
+            new_conversations.append(conversation)
+        conversations = new_conversations
+        
+        input_dict = conversation_to_ids(conversations, tokenizer, llm_type, new_schema, max_length)
 
     if batch_vision:
         tgt_sizes = []
diff --git a/finetune/finetune.py b/finetune/finetune.py
index 04cf2eb..0c596d7 100644
--- a/finetune/finetune.py
+++ b/finetune/finetune.py
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ def make_supervised_data_module(
         patch_size=patch_size,
         query_nums=query_nums,
         batch_vision=batch_vision,
+        max_length=max_length,
     )
 
     if data_args.eval_data_path:
@@ -121,6 +122,7 @@ def make_supervised_data_module(
             patch_size=patch_size,
             query_nums=query_nums,
             batch_vision=batch_vision,
+            max_length=max_length,
         )
     else:
         eval_dataset = None
@@ -276,6 +278,7 @@ def train():
         max_length=training_args.model_max_length,
     )
     
+    training_args.gradient_checkpointing_kwargs={"use_reentrant":False}
     trainer = CPMTrainer(
         model=model,
         tokenizer=tokenizer,
diff --git a/finetune/finetune_ds.sh b/finetune/finetune_ds.sh
index 92fd577..c049471 100644
--- a/finetune/finetune_ds.sh
+++ b/finetune/finetune_ds.sh
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ MODEL="openbmb/MiniCPM-V-2_6"
 DATA="path/to/trainging_data"
 EVAL_DATA="path/to/test_data"
 LLM_TYPE="qwen2" # if use openbmb/MiniCPM-V-2, please set LLM_TYPE=minicpm, if use openbmb/MiniCPM-Llama3-V-2_5, please set LLM_TYPE="llama3"
-
+MODEL_MAX_Length=2048 # if conduct multi-images sft, please set MODEL_MAX_Length=4096
 
 
 DISTRIBUTED_ARGS="
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ torchrun $DISTRIBUTED_ARGS finetune.py  \
     --do_eval \
     --tune_vision true \
     --tune_llm true \
-    --model_max_length 2048 \
+    --model_max_length $MODEL_MAX_Length \
     --max_slice_nums 9 \
     --max_steps 10000 \
     --eval_steps 1000 \
diff --git a/finetune/finetune_lora.sh b/finetune/finetune_lora.sh
index 2c12525..19437b1 100644
--- a/finetune/finetune_lora.sh
+++ b/finetune/finetune_lora.sh
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ EVAL_DATA="path/to/test_data"
 LLM_TYPE="qwen2" 
 # if use openbmb/MiniCPM-V-2, please set LLM_TYPE=minicpm
 #if use openbmb/MiniCPM-Llama3-V-2_5, please set LLM_TYPE=llama3
+
+MODEL_MAX_Length=2048 # if conduct multi-images sft, please set MODEL_MAX_Length=4096
+
 DISTRIBUTED_ARGS="
     --nproc_per_node $GPUS_PER_NODE \
     --nnodes $NNODES \
@@ -39,7 +42,7 @@ torchrun $DISTRIBUTED_ARGS finetune.py  \
     --tune_llm false \
     --use_lora true \
     --lora_target_modules "llm\..*layers\.\d+\.self_attn\.(q_proj|k_proj|v_proj|o_proj)" \
-    --model_max_length 2048 \
+    --model_max_length $MODEL_MAX_Length \
     --max_slice_nums 9 \
     --max_steps 10000 \
     --eval_steps 1000 \
diff --git a/finetune/readme.md b/finetune/readme.md
index 700609f..9ba8c96 100644
--- a/finetune/readme.md
+++ b/finetune/readme.md
@@ -5,13 +5,15 @@ We offer the official scripts for easy finetuning of the pretrained **MiniCPM-V-
 
 ### Data preparation
 
-To prepare your finetuning data, you should formulate each sample as a dictionary consisting of an id, an image path list with an image, and a list of conversations. Then save data samples in JSON files.
+To prepare your fine-tuning data, you should formulate each sample as a dictionary consisting of an id, an image path (or list of images), and a list of conversations. Then, save the data samples in JSON files.
 
-For the vision-language example with image, you are required to provide **\<image\>** to define the position to insert the image embeddings. If you don't provide \<image\>, the image will be placed at the front of the conversation.
+For vision-language tasks, you must provide placeholders like **\<image\>** or **\<image_XX\>** to define where to insert the image embeddings within the conversation. If no placeholder is provided, the image will be placed at the front of the conversation by default.
 
+#### Single Image Example
+If your input consists of a single image, you can use a single placeholder **\<image\>** to indicate where the image should be inserted in the conversation.
 <details>
   <summary>
-    <b>vision-language example (vl_finetune_data.json) with 1 samples.</b>
+    <b>Single image example (vl_finetune_data.json) with 1 samples.</b>
   </summary>
 
 ```
@@ -50,6 +52,44 @@ For the vision-language example with image, you are required to provide **\<imag
 
 </details>
 
+#### Multiple Images Example
+For inputs containing multiple images, utilize a dictionary where each key represents a unique placeholder (e.g., **\<image_00\>**, **\<image_01\**) with the corresponding image path as its value. These placeholders can then be used within the conversation to seamlessly insert images at specific positions.
+
+Additionally, to optimize resource management, especially when dealing with large batches of images during training or inference, consider reducing `max_slice_nums`. For example, in version 2.6, a single image is represented by 64 tokens. When `slice=9`, an image with a maximum resolution of 1344x1344 will consume nearly 64*(9+1) tokens. To minimize the number of tokens used per image, you can set `slice=1`, resulting in a single image being represented by 64 tokens.
+
+If the total token count exceeds `max_length`, truncation will be applied. For multi-image supervised fine-tuning (SFT), it's recommended to set `MODEL_MAX_LENGTH=4096` in your script for better performance.
+
+
+
+<details>
+  <summary>
+    <b>Multiple images example (vl_finetune_data.json) with 1 samples.</b>
+  </summary>
+
+```
+  [
+    {
+      "id": "0",
+      "image": {
+        "<image_00>": "path/to/image_0.jpg",
+        "<image_01>": "path/to/image_1.jpg",
+        "<image_02>": "path/to/image_2.jpg",
+        "<image_03>": "path/to/image_3.jpg"
+      },
+      "conversations": [
+        {
+          "role": "user", 
+          "content": "How to create such text-only videos using CapCut?\n<image_00>\n<image_01>\n<image_02>\n<image_03>\n"
+        }, 
+        {
+          "role": "assistant", 
+          "content": "To create a text-only video as shown in the images, follow these steps in CapCut..."
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  ]
+```
+</details>
 
 ### Full-parameter finetuning