Text Generation
MLX
Safetensors
English
step3p7
vision-language
multimodal
Mixture of Experts
conversational
custom_code
8-bit precision
Instructions to use mlx-community/Step-3.7-Flash-8bit with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- MLX
How to use mlx-community/Step-3.7-Flash-8bit with MLX:
# Make sure mlx-lm is installed # pip install --upgrade mlx-lm # Generate text with mlx-lm from mlx_lm import load, generate model, tokenizer = load("mlx-community/Step-3.7-Flash-8bit") prompt = "Write a story about Einstein" messages = [{"role": "user", "content": prompt}] prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template( messages, add_generation_prompt=True ) text = generate(model, tokenizer, prompt=prompt, verbose=True) - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps
- LM Studio
- Pi new
How to use mlx-community/Step-3.7-Flash-8bit with Pi:
Start the MLX server
# Install MLX LM: uv tool install mlx-lm # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server: mlx_lm.server --model "mlx-community/Step-3.7-Flash-8bit"
Configure the model in Pi
# Install Pi: npm install -g @mariozechner/pi-coding-agent # Add to ~/.pi/agent/models.json: { "providers": { "mlx-lm": { "baseUrl": "http://localhost:8080/v1", "api": "openai-completions", "apiKey": "none", "models": [ { "id": "mlx-community/Step-3.7-Flash-8bit" } ] } } }Run Pi
# Start Pi in your project directory: pi
- Hermes Agent new
How to use mlx-community/Step-3.7-Flash-8bit with Hermes Agent:
Start the MLX server
# Install MLX LM: uv tool install mlx-lm # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server: mlx_lm.server --model "mlx-community/Step-3.7-Flash-8bit"
Configure Hermes
# Install Hermes: curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash hermes setup # Point Hermes at the local server: hermes config set model.provider custom hermes config set model.base_url http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1 hermes config set model.default mlx-community/Step-3.7-Flash-8bit
Run Hermes
hermes
- MLX LM
How to use mlx-community/Step-3.7-Flash-8bit with MLX LM:
Generate or start a chat session
# Install MLX LM uv tool install mlx-lm # Interactive chat REPL mlx_lm.chat --model "mlx-community/Step-3.7-Flash-8bit"
Run an OpenAI-compatible server
# Install MLX LM uv tool install mlx-lm # Start the server mlx_lm.server --model "mlx-community/Step-3.7-Flash-8bit" # Calling the OpenAI-compatible server with curl curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "mlx-community/Step-3.7-Flash-8bit", "messages": [ {"role": "user", "content": "Hello"} ] }'
| from typing import Any, Optional, Sequence, Union | |
| from transformers.configuration_utils import PretrainedConfig | |
| class StepRoboticsVisionEncoderConfig(PretrainedConfig): | |
| model_type = "perception_encoder" | |
| def __init__( | |
| self, | |
| width=1536, | |
| layers=47, | |
| heads=16, | |
| num_channels=3, | |
| image_size=728, | |
| mlp_ratio = 8960/1536, | |
| patch_size=14, | |
| hidden_act="quick_gelu", | |
| layer_norm_eps=1e-5, | |
| ues_cls_token=False, | |
| use_cls_token: Optional[bool] = None, | |
| use_ln_pre=True, | |
| use_ln_post=False, | |
| use_abs_posemb=True, | |
| use_rope2d=True, | |
| ls_init_value=0.1, | |
| **kwargs, | |
| ): | |
| self.width = width | |
| self.layers = layers | |
| self.heads = heads | |
| self.num_channels = num_channels | |
| self.patch_size = patch_size | |
| self.image_size = image_size | |
| self.mlp_ratio = mlp_ratio | |
| self.layer_norm_eps = layer_norm_eps | |
| self.hidden_act = hidden_act | |
| if use_cls_token is None: | |
| use_cls_token = ues_cls_token | |
| self.ues_cls_token = use_cls_token | |
| self.use_cls_token = use_cls_token | |
| self.use_ln_pre = use_ln_pre | |
| self.ls_init_value = ls_init_value | |
| self.use_ln_post = use_ln_post | |
| self.use_abs_posemb = use_abs_posemb | |
| self.use_rope2d = use_rope2d | |
| super().__init__(**kwargs) | |
| class Step3p7TextConfig(PretrainedConfig): | |
| model_type = "step3p5" | |
| architectures = ["Step3p5ForCausalLM"] | |
| def __init__( | |
| self, | |
| hidden_size: int = 4096, | |
| intermediate_size: int = 11264, | |
| num_attention_heads: int = 64, | |
| num_attention_groups: int = 8, | |
| num_hidden_layers: int = 45, | |
| max_seq_len: int = 128000, | |
| vocab_size: int = 128815, | |
| rms_norm_eps: float = 1e-5, | |
| moe_intermediate_size: int = 1280, | |
| moe_num_experts: int = 288, | |
| moe_top_k: int = 8, | |
| rope_theta: float = 10000, | |
| rope_scaling: Optional[dict[str, Any]] = None, | |
| max_position_embeddings: int = 128000, | |
| share_expert_dims: int = 1280, | |
| share_expert_dim: Optional[int] = None, | |
| head_dim: int = 128, | |
| norm_expert_weight: bool = True, | |
| layer_types: list[str] = None, | |
| sliding_window: Optional[int] = None, | |
| pad_token_id: int = 1, | |
| attention_dropout: float = 0.0, | |
| use_head_wise_attn_gate: bool = False, | |
| use_moe_router_bias: bool = False, | |
| moe_router_activation: str = "softmax", | |
| moe_router_scaling_factor: float = 1.0, | |
| need_fp32_gate: bool = False, | |
| attention_other_setting: Optional[dict[str, Any]] = None, | |
| swiglu_limits: Optional[list[Optional[float]]] = None, | |
| swiglu_limits_shared: Optional[list[Optional[float]]] = None, | |
| use_rope_layers: Optional[list[bool]] = None, | |
| yarn_only_types: Optional[list[str]] = None, | |
| moe_layers_enum: tuple[int] = (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, | |
| 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, | |
| 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, | |
| 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44), | |
| **kwargs, | |
| ) -> None: | |
| torch_dtype = kwargs.get("torch_dtype") | |
| trim_layer_types = _normalize_per_layer_values(layer_types, | |
| num_hidden_layers) | |
| if isinstance(rope_scaling, dict): | |
| rope_scaling = dict(rope_scaling) | |
| if share_expert_dim is None: | |
| share_expert_dim = share_expert_dims | |
| self.hidden_size = hidden_size | |
| self.intermediate_size = intermediate_size | |
| self.num_attention_heads = num_attention_heads | |
| self.num_attention_groups = num_attention_groups | |
| self.num_hidden_layers = num_hidden_layers | |
| self.max_seq_len = max_seq_len | |
| self.vocab_size = vocab_size | |
| self.rms_norm_eps = rms_norm_eps | |
| self.moe_intermediate_size = moe_intermediate_size | |
| self.moe_num_experts = moe_num_experts | |
| self.moe_top_k = moe_top_k | |
| self.rope_theta = rope_theta | |
| self.rope_scaling = rope_scaling | |
| self.max_position_embeddings = max_position_embeddings | |
| self.share_expert_dim = share_expert_dim | |
| self.head_dim = head_dim | |
| self.norm_expert_weight = norm_expert_weight | |
| self.moe_layers_enum = moe_layers_enum | |
| self.layer_types = trim_layer_types | |
| self.sliding_window = sliding_window | |
| self.pad_token_id = pad_token_id | |
| self.attention_dropout = attention_dropout | |
| self.use_head_wise_attn_gate = use_head_wise_attn_gate | |
| self.use_moe_router_bias = use_moe_router_bias | |
| self.moe_router_activation = moe_router_activation | |
| self.moe_router_scaling_factor = moe_router_scaling_factor | |
| self.need_fp32_gate = need_fp32_gate | |
| self.attention_other_setting = attention_other_setting | |
| self.swiglu_limits = swiglu_limits | |
| self.swiglu_limits_shared = swiglu_limits_shared | |
| self.use_rope_layers = use_rope_layers | |
| self.yarn_only_types = yarn_only_types | |
| super().__init__(**kwargs) | |
| if torch_dtype is not None: | |
| self.torch_dtype = torch_dtype | |
| self.layer_types = layer_types | |
| def to_dict(self): | |
| output = super().to_dict() | |
| torch_dtype = getattr(self, "torch_dtype", None) | |
| if torch_dtype is not None: | |
| output["torch_dtype"] = torch_dtype | |
| return output | |
| def _normalize_per_layer_values( | |
| values: Optional[Sequence[Any]], | |
| num_hidden_layers: int, | |
| ) -> Optional[list[Any]]: | |
| if values is None: | |
| return None | |
| normalized = list(values) | |
| if not normalized: | |
| return normalized | |
| if len(normalized) < num_hidden_layers: | |
| normalized.extend([normalized[-1]] * | |
| (num_hidden_layers - len(normalized))) | |
| # Some checkpoints keep MTP/spec layer entries after the decoder layers. | |
| # This config only builds num_hidden_layers decoder layers, and HF strict | |
| # validation requires per-layer fields to match that decoder count. | |
| return normalized[:num_hidden_layers] | |
| class Step3p7Config(PretrainedConfig): | |
| # This loader is a compatibility shim for original Step VL checkpoints | |
| # whose top-level config model_type is `step3p7`. | |
| model_type = "step3p7" | |
| def __init__( | |
| self, | |
| vision_config: Optional[Union[dict, StepRoboticsVisionEncoderConfig]] = None, | |
| text_config: Optional[Union[dict, Step3p7TextConfig]] = None, | |
| understand_projector_stride: int = 2, | |
| projector_bias: bool = False, | |
| image_token_id: int = 151679, | |
| **kwargs, | |
| ) -> None: | |
| shared_rope_scaling = kwargs.get("rope_scaling") | |
| if isinstance(shared_rope_scaling, dict): | |
| shared_rope_scaling = dict(shared_rope_scaling) | |
| if vision_config is None: | |
| vision_config = StepRoboticsVisionEncoderConfig() | |
| elif isinstance(vision_config, dict): | |
| vision_config = StepRoboticsVisionEncoderConfig(**vision_config) | |
| self.vision_config = vision_config | |
| if text_config is None: | |
| text_config = Step3p7TextConfig(rope_scaling=shared_rope_scaling) | |
| elif isinstance(text_config, dict): | |
| text_config = dict(text_config) | |
| if shared_rope_scaling is not None and "rope_scaling" not in text_config: | |
| text_config["rope_scaling"] = shared_rope_scaling | |
| text_config = Step3p7TextConfig(**text_config) | |
| elif shared_rope_scaling is not None and text_config.rope_scaling is None: | |
| text_config.rope_scaling = dict(shared_rope_scaling) | |
| self.text_config = text_config | |
| rope_scaling = kwargs.get("rope_scaling") | |
| if isinstance(rope_scaling, dict): | |
| kwargs["rope_scaling"] = dict(rope_scaling) | |
| self.understand_projector_stride = understand_projector_stride | |
| self.projector_bias = projector_bias | |
| self.hidden_size = text_config.hidden_size | |
| self.max_position_embeddings = text_config.max_position_embeddings | |
| self.image_token_id = image_token_id | |
| # Help Auto classes find the correct implementation when saving/loading. | |
| super().__init__(**kwargs) |