Instructions to use nvidia/Efficient-DLM-4B with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use nvidia/Efficient-DLM-4B with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="nvidia/Efficient-DLM-4B", trust_remote_code=True)
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("nvidia/Efficient-DLM-4B", trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("nvidia/Efficient-DLM-4B", 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]:]))

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps

vLLM

How to use nvidia/Efficient-DLM-4B with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "nvidia/Efficient-DLM-4B"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "nvidia/Efficient-DLM-4B",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/nvidia/Efficient-DLM-4B

SGLang

How to use nvidia/Efficient-DLM-4B 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 "nvidia/Efficient-DLM-4B" \
    --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": "nvidia/Efficient-DLM-4B",
		"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 "nvidia/Efficient-DLM-4B" \
        --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": "nvidia/Efficient-DLM-4B",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use nvidia/Efficient-DLM-4B with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/nvidia/Efficient-DLM-4B
```

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@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
   "disable_qk_norm": false,
   "dlm_arch": "encoder",
   "dlm_paradigm": "bidirectional",
-  "dlm_type": "dream",
   "enforce_mask": false,
   "head_dim": 128,
   "hidden_act": "silu",
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
   "rope_theta": 1000000,
   "seq_length": 1024,
   "sliding_window": null,
-  "tie_word_embeddings": true,
   "tok_mask_half_life_ratio": null,
   "torch_dtype": "bfloat16",
   "transformers_version": "4.52.2",

   "disable_qk_norm": false,
   "dlm_arch": "encoder",
   "dlm_paradigm": "bidirectional",
+  "dlm_type": "llada",
   "enforce_mask": false,
   "head_dim": 128,
   "hidden_act": "silu",
   "rope_theta": 1000000,
   "seq_length": 1024,
   "sliding_window": null,
+  "tie_word_embeddings": false,
   "tok_mask_half_life_ratio": null,
   "torch_dtype": "bfloat16",
   "transformers_version": "4.52.2",