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 | |
| """Image + text generation with Piko-9b. | |
| python examples/inference_multimodal.py --image receipt.png \ | |
| --prompt "Give the merchant and total as JSON." | |
| Read reports/inference_validation.json before relying on this path. The vision | |
| tower in this checkpoint was copied verbatim from Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B and was never | |
| trained or re-aligned against Piko's fine-tuned language backbone. | |
| """ | |
| from __future__ import annotations | |
| import argparse | |
| import sys | |
| from pathlib import Path | |
| from urllib.parse import urlparse | |
| import torch | |
| from _common import add_common_arguments, generation_kwargs, load_model, strip_reasoning | |
| DEFAULT_SYSTEM = ( | |
| "You are Piko-9, an AI assistant. Examine the supplied image, answer accurately, " | |
| "read visible text when relevant, and do not invent details the image does not show." | |
| ) | |
| def resolve_image(reference: str) -> str: | |
| """Accept a local path or an http(s) URL; fail early and clearly otherwise.""" | |
| parsed = urlparse(reference) | |
| if parsed.scheme in ("http", "https"): | |
| return reference | |
| path = Path(reference).expanduser() | |
| if not path.is_file(): | |
| sys.exit(f"Image not found: {path}") | |
| if path.suffix.lower() not in {".png", ".jpg", ".jpeg", ".webp", ".bmp", ".gif"}: | |
| sys.exit(f"Unsupported image type: {path.suffix}") | |
| try: | |
| from PIL import Image | |
| with Image.open(path) as image: | |
| image.verify() | |
| except ImportError: | |
| sys.exit("Pillow is required: pip install pillow") | |
| except Exception as exc: # noqa: BLE001 | |
| sys.exit(f"Could not read {path} as an image: {exc}") | |
| return str(path.resolve()) | |
| def main() -> None: | |
| parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__) | |
| add_common_arguments(parser) | |
| parser.add_argument( | |
| "--image", required=True, action="append", help="Path or URL. Repeat for multiple images." | |
| ) | |
| parser.add_argument("--prompt", required=True) | |
| parser.add_argument("--system", default=DEFAULT_SYSTEM) | |
| args = parser.parse_args() | |
| images = [resolve_image(reference) for reference in args.image] | |
| model, processor = load_model(args.model, args.quantization, args.dtype, args.revision) | |
| content: list[dict[str, str]] = [{"type": "image", "url": image} for image in images] | |
| content.append({"type": "text", "text": args.prompt}) | |
| messages = [] | |
| if args.system: | |
| messages.append({"role": "system", "content": args.system}) | |
| messages.append({"role": "user", "content": content}) | |
| 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): | |
| sys.exit("Image input needs torchvision: pip install torchvision") | |
| raise | |
| with torch.inference_mode(): | |
| output = model.generate(**inputs, **generation_kwargs(args)) | |
| text = processor.decode( | |
| output[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[1] :], skip_special_tokens=True | |
| ).strip() | |
| print(text if args.show_reasoning else strip_reasoning(text)) | |
| if __name__ == "__main__": | |
| main() | |