Instructions to use microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct", trust_remote_code=True)
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct", trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct", trust_remote_code=True)
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
Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps

vLLM

How to use microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct"
# 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/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct

SGLang

How to use microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct 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/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct" \
    --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/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct",
		"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 "microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct" \
        --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/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct
```

Request: DOI

#105

by Karan-87 - opened Oct 10, 2025

Discussion

Karan-87

Oct 10, 2025

•

edited Oct 10, 2025

HI :)
I am a postgraduate student currently working on my M.Tech project in Computer Science. I am developing a local AI assistant named A.T.O.M that uses transformer-based language models for natural language understanding and command execution.

I would like to request access to the microsoft/phi-3-mini-instruct (4K) model for academic research and experimentation purposes. The model will be used locally on my system for evaluation, without any redistribution or commercial use.

I have added some Screenshots of my project below.
Currently I am Using Ollama as an Interface To access "Phi-3 mini-instruct" But I want to Remove the Ollama dependency for fine tuning the model based on my hardware limitation as i am using a laptop with is Just a 4gig GTX 1650ti GPU.

Thank you for your consideration.

Best regards,
Karandeep Chadda
[Karan-87]

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