Instructions to use deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-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]:]))

Inference
HuggingChat
Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps

vLLM

How to use deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-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": "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B

SGLang

How to use deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-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 "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-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": "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-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 "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-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": "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B
```

Do the distilled models also have 128K context?

by Troyanovsky - opened Jan 21, 2025

Discussion

Troyanovsky

Jan 21, 2025

DeepSeek-R1 has 128K context length. Do the distilled models also have this context length or smaller?

dimitadi

Jan 21, 2025

This also depends on the models used for distillation themselves, but as long as those support it ( which is the case with Llama ), it should be fine

Spitfire2600

Apr 3, 2025

It seems not from what I can tell, unless I'm missing something. With langchain running as a context manager, this model will fill up in about 2048 tokens. Anyone else agree? Am I missing something?

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