Instructions to use microsoft/Mage-VL with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use microsoft/Mage-VL with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="microsoft/Mage-VL", trust_remote_code=True)
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 AutoModelForImageTextToText
model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained("microsoft/Mage-VL", trust_remote_code=True, device_map="auto")

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use microsoft/Mage-VL with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

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

SGLang

How to use microsoft/Mage-VL 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/Mage-VL" \
    --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": "microsoft/Mage-VL",
		"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 "microsoft/Mage-VL" \
        --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": "microsoft/Mage-VL",
		"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 microsoft/Mage-VL with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/microsoft/Mage-VL
```

Gemma-4 2b/4b language backbone possible?

by vinventive - opened 5 days ago

Discussion

vinventive

5 days ago

Why it is always Chinese Qwen models? Couldn't NVIDIA team use the latest Gemma-4 weights as the language backbone? Gemma-4 has video support out of the box.

pwnyourace

3 days ago

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edited 3 days ago

This was by Microsoft Research Asia so it makes sense, plus they had a baseline because they essentially recreated what Qwen did when they made Qwen3-VL from Qwen3. It's not a foundation model it's a research project from what I can tell. Part of the project was creating their ViT, Gemma4 already uses a different ViT and is trained to use that ViT, Qwen3 had no ViT training so it was a clean base. Not facts just theories.

vinventive

1 day ago

interesting theory. at first I was like this must be cutting edge research in video understanding, since it has just been released - but then I've tested it against gemma-4 at video and local gemma seems to be better

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