Populate default Model Catalog manifest config with Models

[tarilabs]

What would be great model to feature in the default Model Catalog?

We're asking for community contribution on the default model catalog metadata content which is defined here:
https://github.com/kubeflow/model-registry/tree/main/manifests/kustomize/options/catalog

and displayed in the Model Catalog once enabled.

ref 2025-08-18 community call

[uday-codes69]

Hi @tarilabs 👋,
I’d like to work on this issue and contribute a model example for the default Model Catalog. Could you please assign this to me?

[tarilabs]

Hi @uday-codes69 👋 thank you for your interest! To work on this item we need

1. to present first the Model Catalog in more detail to the KF community (call or else)
2. and then we can make sure the suggested models are populated

Do you want to give a try making a very small demo of the Model Catalog?

[uday-codes69]

Hi @tarilabs 👋,

Yes, I’d be happy to give it a try.

My plan would be:

1. First, prepare a very small demo of the Model Catalog (maybe using a simple ML model like Iris classifier or MNIST digit recognizer) so the structure is clear.
2. Then I can present the demo and details to the KF community for feedback, and based on that we can populate the catalog with suggested models.

Could you guide me if there is any preferred format for the demo

[tarilabs]

maybe using a simple ML model like Iris classifier or MNIST digit recognizer

Model Catalog is more LLM/GenAI oriented, so I'd focus on small LLM maybe

[uday-codes69]

maybe using a simple ML model like Iris classifier or MNIST digit recognizer

Model Catalog is more LLM/GenAI oriented, so I'd focus on small LLM maybe

I think that hard to me bcoz I dont have suffiecient knowledge about llm/genai

[aniket2405]

Hi @tarilabs I'd be happy to give this a try and make a small demo of the Model Catalog!

[tarilabs]

Hi @aniket2405 sure thanks, let us know your experience/progress building the demo!