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

Libraries

How to use SynLayers/Bbox-caption-8b with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="SynLayers/Bbox-caption-8b")
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, AutoModelForImageTextToText

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("SynLayers/Bbox-caption-8b")
model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained("SynLayers/Bbox-caption-8b")
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

vLLM

How to use SynLayers/Bbox-caption-8b with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "SynLayers/Bbox-caption-8b"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "SynLayers/Bbox-caption-8b",
		"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/SynLayers/Bbox-caption-8b

SGLang

How to use SynLayers/Bbox-caption-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 "SynLayers/Bbox-caption-8b" \
    --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": "SynLayers/Bbox-caption-8b",
		"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 "SynLayers/Bbox-caption-8b" \
        --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": "SynLayers/Bbox-caption-8b",
		"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 SynLayers/Bbox-caption-8b with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/SynLayers/Bbox-caption-8b
```

Bbox-caption-8b / README.md

SynLayers

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	---
	library_name: transformers
	tags:
	- vision-language-model
	- image-decomposition
	---

	# SynLayers

	This repository contains the assets behind SynLayers, our two-stage image decomposition system.

	At the root is the bbox-caption model. Given one image, it predicts:

	- a whole-image caption
	- bounding boxes for visible objects or layers

	The same repo also includes the Stage 2 SynLayers pipeline to do layer decomposition.

	If you want the easiest way to try the full system, please use our public demo:
	[SynLayers/synlayers](https://huggingface.co/spaces/SynLayers/synlayers)

	This repo is not meant to be used as a single generic `DiffusionPipeline(prompt)` model.
	The full SynLayers pipeline is:

	1. bbox + whole-caption prediction
	2. layer decomposition into transparent RGBA outputs

	If you only want the Stage 1 model at the repo root, you can load it with `transformers`.

	```python
	from transformers import AutoProcessor, Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration

	model = Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
	"SynLayers/Bbox-caption-8b",
	torch_dtype="auto",
	device_map="auto",
	)
	processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("SynLayers/Bbox-caption-8b")
	```

	If you want to see more details of our implementation, please check our paper out here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15167

	If you find our work useful, please consider citing:
	@misc{wu2026doessyntheticlayereddesign,
	title={Does Synthetic Layered Design Data Benefit Layered Design Decomposition?},
	author={Kam Man Wu and Haolin Yang and Qingyu Chen and Yihu Tang and Jingye Chen and Qifeng Chen},
	year={2026},
	eprint={2605.15167},
	archivePrefix={arXiv},
	primaryClass={cs.CV},
	url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15167},
	}

	Thanks for trying SynLayers.