Instructions to use TIGER-Lab/FIM-8B with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use TIGER-Lab/FIM-8B with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="TIGER-Lab/FIM-8B")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("TIGER-Lab/FIM-8B")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("TIGER-Lab/FIM-8B")
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]:]))

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use TIGER-Lab/FIM-8B with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "TIGER-Lab/FIM-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": "TIGER-Lab/FIM-8B",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/TIGER-Lab/FIM-8B

SGLang

How to use TIGER-Lab/FIM-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 "TIGER-Lab/FIM-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": "TIGER-Lab/FIM-8B",
		"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 "TIGER-Lab/FIM-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": "TIGER-Lab/FIM-8B",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use TIGER-Lab/FIM-8B with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/TIGER-Lab/FIM-8B
```

FIM-8B / README.md

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license: apache-2.0
library_name: transformers
pipeline_tag: text-generation
base_model:
  - Qwen/Qwen3-8B
datasets:
  - TIGER-Lab/FIM-Midtraining-400K
  - SWE-Lego/SWE-Lego-Synthetic-Data
tags:
  - code
  - software-engineering
  - agent

FIM-8B

📄 Paper · 💻 GitHub · 🤗 Dataset · 🤗 Collection

FIM-8B is the strongest released model of "Function-Aware Fill-in-the-Middle as Mid-Training for Coding Agent Foundation Models": Qwen3-8B, mid-trained on function-aware FIM data, then post-trained on SWE-Lego agent trajectories. The mid-training stage is the only difference from a standard SWE-Lego reproduction — worth +3.2 points on SWE-Bench-Verified and +5.4 on SWE-Bench-Lite. Unlike FIM-7B and FIM-14B (R2E-Gym scaffold), this model is evaluated with the SWE-Lego setup: OpenHands CodeActAgent for inference and the official SWE-bench harness for scoring.

Training pipeline

Base model: Qwen/Qwen3-8B
FIM mid-training: midtraining/configs/fim_midtrain.yaml on TIGER-Lab/FIM-Midtraining-400K (as-run copy: FIM_Midtrain_8B.yaml) → intermediate checkpoint released as TIGER-Lab/FIM-Mid-8B
Post-training: SFT on SWE-Lego trajectories (real + synthetic, resolved-filtered, 2 epochs) — posttraining/swe_lego/ (as-run copy: FIM_Posttrain_8B.yaml)

Results

Means over three evaluation seeds, identical harness for both arms (paper Table 1):

Setting	SWE-Bench-Verified	SWE-Bench-Lite
Qwen3-8B + SWE-Lego (reproduced)	31.80	27.30
FIM-8B (+ FIM mid-training)	35.00	32.70
Δ	+3.20	+5.40

Evaluate on SWE-Bench Verified

The complete pinned walkthrough lives at evaluation/swebench/released_checkpoints.md.

1. Serve the model with vLLM

The checkpoint ships max_position_embeddings: 163840 and its own chat template, so no rope or template overrides are needed:

CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 \
python -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server \
  --model TIGER-Lab/FIM-8B \
  --served-model-name FIM-8B \
  --host 127.0.0.1 \
  --port 8400 \
  --tensor-parallel-size 1 \
  --max-model-len 163840 \
  --max-num-seqs 16 \
  --gpu-memory-utilization 0.9 \
  > vllm_fim8b.log 2>&1 &

Wait until the server is up (model load takes ~1 minute):

curl -s http://127.0.0.1:8400/v1/models

2. Run the agent on SWE-Bench Verified

Inference uses OpenHands 0.53.0 with CodeActAgent. Define the LLM in config.toml:

[llm.eval_fim]
model = "openai/FIM-8B"
base_url = "http://127.0.0.1:8400/v1"
api_key = "EMPTY"
temperature = 0.0
max_input_tokens = 147456
max_output_tokens = 16384
native_tool_calling = false

From the OpenHands checkout:

env USE_HINT_TEXT=false \
    INSTRUCTION_TEMPLATE_NAME=swe_default.j2 \
    ENABLE_PLAN_MODE=false \
    ADD_IN_CONTEXT_LEARNING_EXAMPLE=false \
poetry run python evaluation/benchmarks/swe_bench/run_infer.py \
  --config-file config.toml \
  --agent-cls CodeActAgent \
  --llm-config llm.eval_fim \
  --max-iterations 100 \
  --eval-num-workers 1 \
  --eval-output-dir ./eval_out \
  --dataset princeton-nlp/SWE-bench_Verified \
  --split test \
  --mode swe

For SWE-Bench Lite, use --dataset princeton-nlp/SWE-bench_Lite.

3. Score with the SWE-bench harness

Convert the OpenHands output.jsonl to a predictions file with evaluation/benchmarks/swe_bench/scripts/eval/convert_oh_output_to_swe_json.py, then evaluate it with the official SWE-bench harness (python -m swebench.harness.run_evaluation). The reported score is resolved_instances / total_instances.

Citation

@article{wang2026fim,
  title={Function-Aware Fill-in-the-Middle as Mid-Training for Coding Agent Foundation Models},
  author={Wang, Yubo and Liang, Jiarong and Zhang, Yuxuan and Liu, Xuye and Wei, Cong and Zhang, Yuyu and Nie, Ping and Chen, Wenhu},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.12463},
  year={2026}
}