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
| """Image-input behaviour. | |
| The vision tower in this checkpoint was copied verbatim from Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B and | |
| never trained against Piko's fine-tuned language backbone. Empirically it works | |
| anyway: OCR and document understanding both scored 10/10 on the custom suite, so | |
| the assertions below are genuine regression guards. | |
| What has NOT been tested is anything outside rendered documents — photographs, | |
| handwriting, natural scenes, low-quality scans. Do not add assertions about those | |
| without measuring first. | |
| """ | |
| from __future__ import annotations | |
| from pathlib import Path | |
| import pytest | |
| pytestmark = pytest.mark.slow | |
| def ask_about_image(loaded_model, image: Path, prompt: str, max_new_tokens: int = 96) -> str: | |
| import torch | |
| model, processor = loaded_model | |
| messages = [ | |
| { | |
| "role": "user", | |
| "content": [ | |
| {"type": "image", "url": str(image)}, | |
| {"type": "text", "text": prompt}, | |
| ], | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| inputs = processor.apply_chat_template( | |
| messages, | |
| add_generation_prompt=True, | |
| tokenize=True, | |
| return_dict=True, | |
| return_tensors="pt", | |
| ).to(model.device) | |
| with torch.inference_mode(): | |
| output = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=max_new_tokens, do_sample=False) | |
| return processor.decode( | |
| output[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[1] :], skip_special_tokens=True | |
| ).strip() | |
| def test_image_tokens_expand_the_prompt(loaded_model, receipt_image: Path) -> None: | |
| """Structural test: the processor must inject image tokens. | |
| This passes regardless of whether the model reads the image correctly, and so | |
| separates 'the multimodal plumbing works' from 'the model can see'. | |
| """ | |
| model, processor = loaded_model | |
| text_only = processor.apply_chat_template( | |
| [{"role": "user", "content": [{"type": "text", "text": "Describe it."}]}], | |
| add_generation_prompt=True, | |
| tokenize=True, | |
| return_dict=True, | |
| return_tensors="pt", | |
| ) | |
| with_image = processor.apply_chat_template( | |
| [ | |
| { | |
| "role": "user", | |
| "content": [ | |
| {"type": "image", "url": str(receipt_image)}, | |
| {"type": "text", "text": "Describe it."}, | |
| ], | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| add_generation_prompt=True, | |
| tokenize=True, | |
| return_dict=True, | |
| return_tensors="pt", | |
| ) | |
| assert with_image["input_ids"].shape[1] > text_only["input_ids"].shape[1] | |
| assert "pixel_values" in with_image | |
| image_token_id = model.config.image_token_id | |
| assert (with_image["input_ids"] == image_token_id).sum() > 0 | |
| def test_image_input_does_not_crash(loaded_model, receipt_image: Path) -> None: | |
| text = ask_about_image(loaded_model, receipt_image, "Describe this image in one sentence.") | |
| assert text | |
| assert len(set(text.replace(" ", ""))) > 5, "degenerate output — check device placement" | |
| def test_reads_total_from_receipt(loaded_model, receipt_image: Path) -> None: | |
| """OCR works on this checkpoint despite the tower never being re-aligned. | |
| Measured at 10/10 on the custom suite, so this is a real regression guard | |
| rather than an aspiration. | |
| """ | |
| assert "27.30" in ask_about_image( | |
| loaded_model, receipt_image, "What is the TOTAL on this receipt? Number only." | |
| ) | |
| def test_reads_merchant_from_receipt(loaded_model, receipt_image: Path) -> None: | |
| answer = ask_about_image(loaded_model, receipt_image, "What is the merchant name? Name only.") | |
| assert "northgate" in answer.lower() | |