Instructions to use HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-360M-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]:]))

Transformers.js

How to use HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct with Transformers.js:

// npm i @huggingface/transformers
import { pipeline } from '@huggingface/transformers';

// Allocate pipeline
const pipe = await pipeline('text-generation', 'HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct');

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps

vLLM

How to use HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-360M-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": "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct

SGLang

How to use HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-360M-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 "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-360M-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": "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-360M-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 "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-360M-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": "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct
```

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 trl chat --model_name_or_path HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct --device cpu
 ```
 ## Evaluation
 In this section, we report the evaluation results of SmolLM2. All evaluations are zero-shot unless stated otherwise, and we use [lighteval](https://github.com/huggingface/lighteval) to run them.

 trl chat --model_name_or_path HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct --device cpu
 ```
+### Transformers.js
+```bash
+npm i @huggingface/transformers
+```
+```js
+import { pipeline } from "@huggingface/transformers";
+// Create a text generation pipeline
+const generator = await pipeline(
+  "text-generation",
+  "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-135M-Instruct",
+);
+// Define the list of messages
+const messages = [
+  { role: "system", content: "You are a helpful assistant." },
+  { role: "user", content: "What is the capital of France?" },
+];
+// Generate a response
+const output = await generator(messages, { max_new_tokens: 128 });
+console.log(output[0].generated_text.at(-1).content);
+// "The capital of France is Paris."
+```
 ## Evaluation
 In this section, we report the evaluation results of SmolLM2. All evaluations are zero-shot unless stated otherwise, and we use [lighteval](https://github.com/huggingface/lighteval) to run them.