Instructions to use nvidia/LocateAnything-3B with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use nvidia/LocateAnything-3B with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="nvidia/LocateAnything-3B", 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 AutoModel
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("nvidia/LocateAnything-3B", trust_remote_code=True, dtype="auto")

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps

vLLM

How to use nvidia/LocateAnything-3B with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "nvidia/LocateAnything-3B"
# 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/LocateAnything-3B",
		"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/nvidia/LocateAnything-3B

SGLang

How to use nvidia/LocateAnything-3B 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/LocateAnything-3B" \
    --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/LocateAnything-3B",
		"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 "nvidia/LocateAnything-3B" \
        --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/LocateAnything-3B",
		"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 nvidia/LocateAnything-3B with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/nvidia/LocateAnything-3B
```

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   <img src="assets/teaser.jpg" alt="LocateAnything teaser" width="100%">
 </p>
 # Model Overview
 ### Description:
@@ -83,7 +89,7 @@ Supported use cases include:
 ### Release Date [Insert the expected release date below]:
-- Github [05/26/2026] via https://github.com/NVlabs/Eagle.
 - Hugging Face [05/26/2026] via https://huggingface.co/nvidia/LocateAnything-3B.
 - Demo [05/26/2026] via https://huggingface.co/spaces/nvidia/LocateAnything.
 - Webpage [05/26/2026] via https://research.nvidia.com/labs/lpr/locate-anything/.

   <img src="assets/teaser.jpg" alt="LocateAnything teaser" width="100%">
 </p>
+## 🔗 Quick Links
+* 🚀 **Online Demo**: [LocateAnything (Hugging Face Spaces)](https://huggingface.co/spaces/nvidia/LocateAnything)
+* 💻 **GitHub Code**: [NVlabs/Eagle/Embodied](https://github.com/NVlabs/Eagle/tree/main/Embodied)
+* 📄 **Paper**: [arXiv:2605.27365](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27365)
+*
 # Model Overview
 ### Description:
 ### Release Date [Insert the expected release date below]:
+- Github [05/26/2026] via https://github.com/NVlabs/Eagle/tree/main/Embodied.
 - Hugging Face [05/26/2026] via https://huggingface.co/nvidia/LocateAnything-3B.
 - Demo [05/26/2026] via https://huggingface.co/spaces/nvidia/LocateAnything.
 - Webpage [05/26/2026] via https://research.nvidia.com/labs/lpr/locate-anything/.