Image-Text-to-Text
Transformers
Safetensors
English
qwen3_5
piko
piko-9b
multimodal
vision-language
hybrid-attention
linear-attention
ocr
document-understanding
conversational
Instructions to use Dexy2/Piko-9b with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use Dexy2/Piko-9b with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="Dexy2/Piko-9b") messages = [ { "role": "user", "content": [ {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"}, {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"} ] }, ] pipe(text=messages)# Load model directly from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForMultimodalLM processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("Dexy2/Piko-9b") model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("Dexy2/Piko-9b", device_map="auto") messages = [ { "role": "user", "content": [ {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"}, {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"} ] }, ] inputs = processor.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(processor.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:])) - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- vLLM
How to use Dexy2/Piko-9b with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "Dexy2/Piko-9b" # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "Dexy2/Piko-9b", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] }'Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/Dexy2/Piko-9b
- SGLang
How to use Dexy2/Piko-9b 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 "Dexy2/Piko-9b" \ --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": "Dexy2/Piko-9b", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] }'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 "Dexy2/Piko-9b" \ --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": "Dexy2/Piko-9b", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] }' - Docker Model Runner
How to use Dexy2/Piko-9b with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/Dexy2/Piko-9b
| #!/usr/bin/env python3 | |
| """Interactive chat with Piko-9b, with streaming output. | |
| python examples/inference_cli.py | |
| python examples/inference_cli.py --quantization none --temperature 0.7 | |
| Commands inside the session: | |
| /image <path> attach an image to the next message | |
| /system <text> replace the system prompt and reset the conversation | |
| /reset clear the conversation | |
| /exit quit | |
| """ | |
| from __future__ import annotations | |
| import argparse | |
| import sys | |
| from pathlib import Path | |
| from threading import Thread | |
| from typing import Any | |
| import torch | |
| from _common import add_common_arguments, generation_kwargs, load_model | |
| DEFAULT_SYSTEM = "You are Piko-9, an AI assistant. Be accurate, direct, and concise." | |
| def main() -> None: | |
| parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__) | |
| add_common_arguments(parser) | |
| parser.add_argument("--system", default=DEFAULT_SYSTEM) | |
| args = parser.parse_args() | |
| model, processor = load_model(args.model, args.quantization, args.dtype, args.revision) | |
| try: | |
| from transformers import TextIteratorStreamer | |
| except ImportError: | |
| sys.exit("TextIteratorStreamer unavailable; upgrade transformers.") | |
| system = args.system | |
| history: list[dict[str, Any]] = [] | |
| pending_image: str | None = None | |
| print("Piko-9b ready. /image <path>, /system <text>, /reset, /exit\n") | |
| while True: | |
| try: | |
| line = input(">>> ").strip() | |
| except (EOFError, KeyboardInterrupt): | |
| print() | |
| break | |
| if not line: | |
| continue | |
| if line in ("/exit", "/quit"): | |
| break | |
| if line == "/reset": | |
| history.clear() | |
| pending_image = None | |
| print("[conversation cleared]\n") | |
| continue | |
| if line.startswith("/system "): | |
| system = line[len("/system ") :].strip() | |
| history.clear() | |
| print("[system prompt set, conversation cleared]\n") | |
| continue | |
| if line.startswith("/image "): | |
| candidate = Path(line[len("/image ") :].strip()).expanduser() | |
| if not candidate.is_file(): | |
| print(f"[no such file: {candidate}]\n") | |
| continue | |
| pending_image = str(candidate.resolve()) | |
| print(f"[attached {candidate.name}; it will go with your next message]\n") | |
| continue | |
| content: list[dict[str, str]] = [] | |
| if pending_image: | |
| content.append({"type": "image", "url": pending_image}) | |
| content.append({"type": "text", "text": line}) | |
| history.append({"role": "user", "content": content}) | |
| pending_image = None | |
| messages = ([{"role": "system", "content": system}] if system else []) + history | |
| try: | |
| inputs = processor.apply_chat_template( | |
| messages, | |
| add_generation_prompt=True, | |
| tokenize=True, | |
| return_dict=True, | |
| return_tensors="pt", | |
| ).to(model.device) | |
| except ImportError as exc: | |
| if "orchvision" in str(exc): | |
| print("[image input needs torchvision: pip install torchvision]\n") | |
| history.pop() | |
| continue | |
| raise | |
| streamer = TextIteratorStreamer( | |
| processor.tokenizer, skip_prompt=True, skip_special_tokens=True | |
| ) | |
| thread = Thread( | |
| target=_generate, | |
| args=(model, inputs, streamer, generation_kwargs(args)), | |
| daemon=True, | |
| ) | |
| thread.start() | |
| pieces: list[str] = [] | |
| in_reasoning = False | |
| for piece in streamer: | |
| pieces.append(piece) | |
| joined = "".join(pieces) | |
| if not args.show_reasoning: | |
| # Suppress the <think>...</think> span unless asked for. | |
| if "<think>" in joined and "</think>" not in joined: | |
| if not in_reasoning: | |
| print("[thinking…]", end="", flush=True) | |
| in_reasoning = True | |
| continue | |
| if in_reasoning and "</think>" in joined: | |
| in_reasoning = False | |
| print("\r" + " " * 12 + "\r", end="", flush=True) | |
| piece = joined.rsplit("</think>", 1)[1] | |
| print(piece, end="", flush=True) | |
| thread.join() | |
| print("\n") | |
| history.append( | |
| {"role": "assistant", "content": [{"type": "text", "text": "".join(pieces)}]} | |
| ) | |
| def _generate(model: Any, inputs: Any, streamer: Any, kwargs: dict[str, Any]) -> None: | |
| try: | |
| with torch.inference_mode(): | |
| model.generate(**inputs, streamer=streamer, **kwargs) | |
| except torch.cuda.OutOfMemoryError: | |
| print("\n[CUDA out of memory — try /reset, a shorter prompt, or 4-bit]", flush=True) | |
| if __name__ == "__main__": | |
| main() | |