Instructions to use HuggingFaceM4/idefics2-8b with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use HuggingFaceM4/idefics2-8b with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="HuggingFaceM4/idefics2-8b")

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForImageTextToText

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("HuggingFaceM4/idefics2-8b")
model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained("HuggingFaceM4/idefics2-8b")

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps

vLLM

How to use HuggingFaceM4/idefics2-8b with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "HuggingFaceM4/idefics2-8b"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "HuggingFaceM4/idefics2-8b",
		"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
		"max_tokens": 512,
		"temperature": 0.5
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/HuggingFaceM4/idefics2-8b

SGLang

How to use HuggingFaceM4/idefics2-8b 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 "HuggingFaceM4/idefics2-8b" \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "HuggingFaceM4/idefics2-8b",
		"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
		"max_tokens": 512,
		"temperature": 0.5
	}'

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 "HuggingFaceM4/idefics2-8b" \
        --host 0.0.0.0 \
        --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "HuggingFaceM4/idefics2-8b",
		"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
		"max_tokens": 512,
		"temperature": 0.5
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use HuggingFaceM4/idefics2-8b with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/HuggingFaceM4/idefics2-8b
```

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@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ Idefics2 is an open multimodal model that accepts arbitrary sequences of image a
 We release under the Apache 2.0 license 2 checkpoints:
 - [idefics2-8b-base](https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceM4/idefics2-8b-base): the base model
 - [idefics2-8b](https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceM4/idefics2-8b): the base model fine-tuned on a mixture of supervised and instruction datasets (text-only and multimodal datasets)
 # Model Summary
@@ -59,6 +60,8 @@ We release under the Apache 2.0 license 2 checkpoints:
 For optimal results, we recommend fine-tuning `idefics2-8b` on one's specific use-case and data. In fact, the instruction-fine-tuned model (`idefics2-8b`) is significantly better at following instructions from users and thus should be preferred when using the models out-of-the-box or as a starting point for fine-tuning.
 As a starting point, we provide fine-tuning codes that can be adapted for one's particular scenario:
 - With the [TRL library](https://github.com/huggingface/trl): [Script](https://gist.github.com/edbeeching/228652fc6c2b29a1641be5a5778223cb)
 - With the [Hugging Face Trainer](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/en/main_classes/trainer#api-reference%20][%20transformers.Trainer): [Tutorial notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1NtcTgRbSBKN7pYD3Vdx1j9m8pt3fhFDB?usp=sharing)

 We release under the Apache 2.0 license 2 checkpoints:
 - [idefics2-8b-base](https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceM4/idefics2-8b-base): the base model
 - [idefics2-8b](https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceM4/idefics2-8b): the base model fine-tuned on a mixture of supervised and instruction datasets (text-only and multimodal datasets)
+- idefics2-8b-chatty (coming soon): `idefics2-8b` further fine-tuned on long conservations
 # Model Summary
 For optimal results, we recommend fine-tuning `idefics2-8b` on one's specific use-case and data. In fact, the instruction-fine-tuned model (`idefics2-8b`) is significantly better at following instructions from users and thus should be preferred when using the models out-of-the-box or as a starting point for fine-tuning.
+`idefics2-8b` usually generates very short answers. For long generations, use `idefics2-8b-chatty`, which was further fine-tuned on long conversations.
 As a starting point, we provide fine-tuning codes that can be adapted for one's particular scenario:
 - With the [TRL library](https://github.com/huggingface/trl): [Script](https://gist.github.com/edbeeching/228652fc6c2b29a1641be5a5778223cb)
 - With the [Hugging Face Trainer](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/en/main_classes/trainer#api-reference%20][%20transformers.Trainer): [Tutorial notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1NtcTgRbSBKN7pYD3Vdx1j9m8pt3fhFDB?usp=sharing)