Instructions to use microsoft/Florence-2-large-ft with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use microsoft/Florence-2-large-ft with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="microsoft/Florence-2-large-ft", trust_remote_code=True)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForMultimodalLM

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("microsoft/Florence-2-large-ft", trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("microsoft/Florence-2-large-ft", trust_remote_code=True)

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use microsoft/Florence-2-large-ft with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "microsoft/Florence-2-large-ft"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "microsoft/Florence-2-large-ft",
		"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
		"max_tokens": 512,
		"temperature": 0.5
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/microsoft/Florence-2-large-ft

SGLang

How to use microsoft/Florence-2-large-ft 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 "microsoft/Florence-2-large-ft" \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "microsoft/Florence-2-large-ft",
		"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
		"max_tokens": 512,
		"temperature": 0.5
	}'

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 "microsoft/Florence-2-large-ft" \
        --host 0.0.0.0 \
        --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "microsoft/Florence-2-large-ft",
		"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
		"max_tokens": 512,
		"temperature": 0.5
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use microsoft/Florence-2-large-ft with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/microsoft/Florence-2-large-ft
```

SAHI and Florence 2

#41

by TheMrguiller - opened Oct 13, 2025

Discussion

TheMrguiller

Oct 13, 2025

I have been using Florence 2 for object detection. In my tests with simple objects, such as humans, I have observed that Florence 2 tends to make predictions in all images, even when no person is present. This behavior makes it impractical to use with SAHI in cases where no apparent object is in the scene.

Do you have any recommendations?

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