Instructions to use SparseLLM/DECO-0.2B with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use SparseLLM/DECO-0.2B with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="SparseLLM/DECO-0.2B", trust_remote_code=True)
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("SparseLLM/DECO-0.2B", trust_remote_code=True, dtype="auto")

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps

vLLM

How to use SparseLLM/DECO-0.2B with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "SparseLLM/DECO-0.2B"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "SparseLLM/DECO-0.2B",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/SparseLLM/DECO-0.2B

SGLang

How to use SparseLLM/DECO-0.2B 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 "SparseLLM/DECO-0.2B" \
    --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": "SparseLLM/DECO-0.2B",
		"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 "SparseLLM/DECO-0.2B" \
        --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": "SparseLLM/DECO-0.2B",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use SparseLLM/DECO-0.2B with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/SparseLLM/DECO-0.2B
```

DECO-0.2B / README.md

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license: apache-2.0
pipeline_tag: text-generation
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DECO-0.2B

This is the 0.2B DECO checkpoint introduced by the paper DECO: Sparse Mixture-of-Experts with Dense-Comparable Performance on End-Side Devices. DECO is an improved version of our previous BlockFFN architecture, with dense-comparable performance given the same budget of total parameters.

Links: [Paper] [Code]

Quick start

You can load and use this model with AutoTokenizer and AutoModelForCausalLM from transformers.

import torch
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
model_id = "SparseLLM/DECO-0.2B"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id, trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    model_id,
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
    trust_remote_code=True,
).to("cuda").eval()
prompt = "Mixture-of-Experts models are useful because"
inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt").to("cuda")
with torch.no_grad():
    output = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=64, do_sample=False)
print(tokenizer.decode(output[0], skip_special_tokens=True))

Citation

If you find our work useful for your research, please kindly cite our paper as follows:

@article{song2026deco,
      title={{DECO}: Sparse Mixture-of-Experts with Dense-Comparable Performance on End-Side Devices}, 
      author={Chenyang Song, Weilin Zhao, Xu Han, Chaojun Xiao, Yingfa Chen, Zhiyuan Liu},
      journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.10933},
      year={2026},
      url={https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.10933}, 
}