Instructions to use ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct with Transformers:

# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
inputs = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
	messages,
	add_generation_prompt=True,
	tokenize=True,
	return_dict=True,
	return_tensors="pt",
).to(model.device)

outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=40)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:]))

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps

vLLM

How to use ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct

SGLang

How to use ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct with SGLang:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install SGLang from pip:
pip install sglang
# Start the SGLang server:
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
    --model-path "ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct" \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker images

docker run --gpus all \
    --shm-size 32g \
    -p 30000:30000 \
    -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
    --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \
    --ipc=host \
    lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
    python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
        --model-path "ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct" \
        --host 0.0.0.0 \
        --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct
```

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@@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ Incorporating synthetic instruction data into pretraining leads to improved perf
 Users can flexibly specify the model's thinking budget. The figure below shows the performance curves across different tasks as the thinking budget varies. For simpler tasks (such as IFEval), the model's chain of thought (CoT) is shorter, and the score exhibits fluctuations as the thinking budget increases. For more challenging tasks (such as AIME and LiveCodeBench), the model's CoT is longer, and the score improves with an increase in the thinking budget.
-![thinking_budget](./figures/thinking_budget.png)
 Here is an example with a thinking budget set to 512: during the reasoning process, the model periodically triggers self-reflection to estimate the consumed and remaining budget, and delivers the final response once the budget is exhausted or the reasoning concludes.
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 Users can flexibly specify the model's thinking budget. The figure below shows the performance curves across different tasks as the thinking budget varies. For simpler tasks (such as IFEval), the model's chain of thought (CoT) is shorter, and the score exhibits fluctuations as the thinking budget increases. For more challenging tasks (such as AIME and LiveCodeBench), the model's CoT is longer, and the score improves with an increase in the thinking budget.
+![thinking_budget](./thinking_budget.png)
 Here is an example with a thinking budget set to 512: during the reasoning process, the model periodically triggers self-reflection to estimate the consumed and remaining budget, and delivers the final response once the budget is exhausted or the reasoning concludes.
 ```