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

Libraries

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

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

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="microsoft/Phi-4-mini-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-4-mini-instruct", trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("microsoft/Phi-4-mini-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-4-mini-instruct with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

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

Use Docker

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

SGLang

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

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

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 license: mit
 license_link: https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct/resolve/main/LICENSE
-language:
-- "multilingual"
-- "ar"
-- "zh"
-- "cs"
-- "da"
-- "nl"
-- "en"
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-- "fr"
-- "de"
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 pipeline_tag: text-generation
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 - messages:
   - role: user
     content: Can you provide ways to eat combinations of bananas and dragonfruits?
-library_name: transformers
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 ## Model Summary
 Phi-4-mini-instruct is a lightweight open model built upon synthetic data and filtered publicly available websites - with a focus on high-quality, reasoning dense data. The model belongs to the Phi-4 model family and supports 128K token context length. The model underwent an enhancement process, incorporating both supervised fine-tuning and direct preference optimization to support precise instruction adherence and robust safety measures.
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ Phi-4-mini-instruct is a lightweight open model built upon synthetic data and fi
 👩‍🍳 [Phi Cookbook](https://github.com/microsoft/PhiCookBook) <br>
 🏡 [Phi Portal](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/phi) <br>
 🖥️ Try It [Azure](https://aka.ms/phi-4-mini/azure), [Huggingface](https://huggingface.co/spaces/microsoft/phi-4-mini) <br>
 🎉**Phi-4**: [[multimodal-instruct](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-4-multimodal-instruct) | [onnx](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-4-multimodal-instruct-onnx)];
 [[mini-instruct](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct) | [onnx](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct-onnx)]
@@ -368,4 +370,4 @@ The model was evaluated across a breadth of public and internal benchmarks to un
   + XSTest: exaggerated safety evaluation
   + Toxigen: adversarial and hate speech detection
 + Red Team:
-  + Responses to prompts provided by AI Red Team at Microsoft

 ---
+language:
+- multilingual
+- ar
+- zh
+- cs
+- da
+- nl
+- en
+- fi
+- fr
+- de
+- he
+- hu
+- it
+- ja
+- ko
+- 'no'
+- pl
+- pt
+- ru
+- es
+- sv
+- th
+- tr
+- uk
+library_name: transformers
 license: mit
 license_link: https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct/resolve/main/LICENSE
 pipeline_tag: text-generation
 tags:
 - nlp
 - messages:
   - role: user
     content: Can you provide ways to eat combinations of bananas and dragonfruits?
 ---
 ## Model Summary
 Phi-4-mini-instruct is a lightweight open model built upon synthetic data and filtered publicly available websites - with a focus on high-quality, reasoning dense data. The model belongs to the Phi-4 model family and supports 128K token context length. The model underwent an enhancement process, incorporating both supervised fine-tuning and direct preference optimization to support precise instruction adherence and robust safety measures.
 👩‍🍳 [Phi Cookbook](https://github.com/microsoft/PhiCookBook) <br>
 🏡 [Phi Portal](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/phi) <br>
 🖥️ Try It [Azure](https://aka.ms/phi-4-mini/azure), [Huggingface](https://huggingface.co/spaces/microsoft/phi-4-mini) <br>
+🚀 [Model paper](https://huggingface.co/papers/2503.01743)
 🎉**Phi-4**: [[multimodal-instruct](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-4-multimodal-instruct) | [onnx](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-4-multimodal-instruct-onnx)];
 [[mini-instruct](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct) | [onnx](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct-onnx)]
   + XSTest: exaggerated safety evaluation
   + Toxigen: adversarial and hate speech detection
 + Red Team:
+  + Responses to prompts provided by AI Red Team at Microsoft