Instructions to use Kwaipilot/KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use Kwaipilot/KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="Kwaipilot/KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev") 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("Kwaipilot/KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev") model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("Kwaipilot/KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev", 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 Kwaipilot/KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "Kwaipilot/KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev" # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "Kwaipilot/KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "What is the capital of France?" } ] }'Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/Kwaipilot/KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev
- SGLang
How to use Kwaipilot/KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev 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 "Kwaipilot/KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev" \ --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": "Kwaipilot/KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev", "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 "Kwaipilot/KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev" \ --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": "Kwaipilot/KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "What is the capital of France?" } ] }' - Docker Model Runner
How to use Kwaipilot/KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/Kwaipilot/KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev
Does this preserve the scientific and reasoning mind of Qwen3.6 models or does that get scarificed for agentic coding
Since there is no update on GPQA-diamond or MMLU-PRO or AMINE-2026 or GSM8k, Does this preserve the scientific and reasoning mind of Qwen3.6 models or does that get scarificed for agentic coding? Many times you are using agentic model not just for coding but need a intelligent coder with subject understanding.
Thanks for the question. Our post-training primarily focuses on improving agentic coding performance through SFT and RL, rather than changing the model architecture or pretraining.
At this stage, we haven't yet released updated results on benchmarks such as GPQA-Diamond, MMLU-Pro, AIME-2026, or GSM8K, so we don't want to claim improvements (or regressions) there without proper evaluation.
Our objective during post-training was to specialize the model for software engineering and agentic tasks while preserving the strong general reasoning capabilities inherited from Qwen3.6. The training data and optimization are designed to improve planning, tool use, repository understanding, and long-horizon problem solving, rather than replacing the model's underlying scientific or mathematical reasoning.
In our experience, stronger agentic coding often depends on general reasoning rather than competing with it—tasks such as debugging, architecture design, and repository navigation require planning, abstraction, and domain understanding in addition to code generation.