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Instructions to use nvidia/NV-Reason-CT with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use nvidia/NV-Reason-CT with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="nvidia/NV-Reason-CT", 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 AutoProcessor, AutoModelForImageTextToText processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("nvidia/NV-Reason-CT", trust_remote_code=True) model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained("nvidia/NV-Reason-CT", trust_remote_code=True, device_map="auto") 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?"} ] }, ] inputs = processor.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(processor.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:])) - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- vLLM
How to use nvidia/NV-Reason-CT with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "nvidia/NV-Reason-CT" # 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/NV-Reason-CT", "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/NV-Reason-CT
- SGLang
How to use nvidia/NV-Reason-CT 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/NV-Reason-CT" \ --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/NV-Reason-CT", "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/NV-Reason-CT" \ --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/NV-Reason-CT", "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/NV-Reason-CT with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/nvidia/NV-Reason-CT
| """NV-Reason-CT 3D vision-language model implementation.""" | |
| import itertools | |
| import warnings | |
| import torch | |
| import torch.nn as nn | |
| from transformers import ( | |
| PreTrainedModel, | |
| Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration, | |
| ) | |
| from transformers.models.qwen3_5.configuration_qwen3_5 import ( | |
| Qwen3_5VisionConfig, | |
| ) | |
| from transformers.modeling_outputs import BaseModelOutputWithPooling | |
| from transformers.models.qwen3_5.modeling_qwen3_5 import ( | |
| Qwen3_5Model, | |
| Qwen3_5VisionPatchMerger, | |
| ) | |
| from dynamic_network_architectures.architectures.primus import Primus | |
| class Vision3D(PreTrainedModel): | |
| """3D vision encoder followed by the feature projection.""" | |
| config_class = Qwen3_5VisionConfig | |
| base_model_prefix = "model" | |
| supports_gradient_checkpointing = True | |
| _supports_flash_attn = True | |
| _supports_sdpa = True | |
| _can_compile_fullgraph = True | |
| _supports_attention_backend = True | |
| def _init_weights(self, module): | |
| """Initialize weights and rebuild non-persistent buffers.""" | |
| super()._init_weights(module) | |
| # Primus rotary pos_embed is absent from state_dict and must be recomputed | |
| # after materialization to avoid uninitialized values. | |
| # https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/issues/43644 | |
| if ( | |
| hasattr(module, "_get_pos_embed_values") | |
| and hasattr(module, "get_embed") | |
| and getattr(module, "pos_embed", None) is not None | |
| and getattr(module, "feat_shape", None) is not None | |
| ): | |
| pe = module.pos_embed | |
| if pe.device.type == "meta": | |
| return | |
| fresh = module._get_pos_embed_values( | |
| feat_shape=module.feat_shape, | |
| device=pe.device, | |
| dtype=torch.float32, | |
| ) | |
| with torch.no_grad(): | |
| pe.copy_(fresh.to(dtype=pe.dtype)) | |
| return | |
| nps = getattr(module, "_non_persistent_buffers_set", None) | |
| if nps: | |
| unhandled = [ | |
| n | |
| for n in nps | |
| if module._buffers.get(n) is not None | |
| and module._buffers[n].device.type != "meta" | |
| ] | |
| if unhandled: | |
| warnings.warn( | |
| "[vlm3d] non-persistent buffer(s) were not reinitialized " | |
| f"after Transformers meta-device loading in " | |
| f"{type(module).__name__}: {unhandled}", | |
| stacklevel=2, | |
| ) | |
| def __init__( | |
| self, | |
| config: Qwen3_5VisionConfig, | |
| input_shape=(192, 192, 192), | |
| patch_embed_size=(8, 8, 8), | |
| ): | |
| """Initialize the Primus backbone and Qwen3.5 vision merger.""" | |
| super().__init__(config) | |
| # The 3D path never spatially merges tokens. The upstream 2D tower | |
| # retains its configured spatial merge size. | |
| self.spatial_merge_size = 1 | |
| self.sub_vision = Primus( | |
| input_channels=1, | |
| num_classes=1, | |
| eva_depth=16, | |
| eva_numheads=12, | |
| embed_dim=864, | |
| patch_embed_size=patch_embed_size, | |
| input_shape=input_shape, | |
| use_rot_pos_emb=True, | |
| use_abs_pos_embed=False, | |
| drop_path_rate=0.2, | |
| init_values=0.1, | |
| scale_attn_inner=True, | |
| num_register_tokens=0, | |
| ) | |
| self.sub_vision.up_projection = nn.Identity() # type: ignore | |
| primus_embed_dim = self.sub_vision.eva.embed_dim | |
| merger_cfg = Qwen3_5VisionConfig( | |
| hidden_size=primus_embed_dim, | |
| spatial_merge_size=1, | |
| out_hidden_size=config.out_hidden_size, | |
| ) | |
| # Project Primus features into the language-model embedding space. | |
| self.merger = Qwen3_5VisionPatchMerger(merger_cfg) | |
| def forward(self, x, *args, **kwargs): | |
| """Encode 3D CT volumes into projected visual tokens.""" | |
| x = self.sub_vision(x) # [B, 864, T, H, W] | |
| x = x.permute(0, 2, 3, 4, 1).contiguous() # [B, T, H, W, C] | |
| return self.merger(x.view(-1, x.shape[-1])) | |
| class VLM3D_Model(Qwen3_5Model): | |
| """Qwen3.5 + 3D ViT.""" | |
| _checkpoint_conversion_mapping = {} | |
| def __init__(self, config): | |
| """Initialize Qwen3.5 and attach the Primus 3D vision tower.""" | |
| super().__init__(config) | |
| self.vision3d = Vision3D( | |
| config.vision_config, | |
| input_shape=getattr(config, "vit3d_input_shape", (192, 192, 192)), | |
| patch_embed_size=getattr(config, "vit3d_patch_embed_size", (8, 8, 8)), | |
| ) | |
| # The parent initializes before vision3d exists. Run post_init again so | |
| # its merger and non-persistent Primus rotary buffers are initialized. | |
| self.post_init() | |
| def get_image_features(self, pixel_values, image_grid_thw=None, **kwargs): | |
| """Route 5D volumes to Primus and ordinary images to upstream Qwen3.5.""" | |
| if isinstance(pixel_values, torch.Tensor) and pixel_values.ndim == 5: | |
| return self._get_volume_features(pixel_values, image_grid_thw, **kwargs) | |
| return super().get_image_features( | |
| pixel_values, image_grid_thw=image_grid_thw, **kwargs | |
| ) | |
| def _get_volume_features(self, pixels, grid_thw, **kwargs): | |
| """Encode 3D volumes and split flattened patch embeddings per input grid.""" | |
| pixels = pixels.type(self.vision3d.dtype) | |
| embeds = self.vision3d(pixels, grid_thw=grid_thw) | |
| embeds = embeds.pooler_output if hasattr(embeds, "pooler_output") else embeds | |
| split_sizes = grid_thw.prod(-1).tolist() | |
| return BaseModelOutputWithPooling(pooler_output=torch.split(embeds, split_sizes)) | |
| def get_rope_index( | |
| self, | |
| input_ids: torch.LongTensor, | |
| mm_token_type_ids: torch.IntTensor, | |
| image_grid_thw: torch.LongTensor | None = None, | |
| video_grid_thw: torch.LongTensor | None = None, | |
| attention_mask: torch.Tensor | None = None, | |
| **kwargs, | |
| ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]: | |
| """Compute MRoPE positions using a merge size appropriate to each grid. | |
| This follows the upstream Qwen3.5 implementation, using merge size 1 | |
| for 3D volume grids and the configured 2D merge size otherwise. | |
| """ | |
| # Expand video grids per frame because MRoPE timestamps are frame-specific. | |
| if video_grid_thw is not None: | |
| video_grid_thw = torch.repeat_interleave(video_grid_thw, video_grid_thw[:, 0], dim=0) | |
| video_grid_thw[:, 0] = 1 | |
| # Parent would do `spatial_merge_size = self.config.vision_config.spatial_merge_size` | |
| # here. We pick per-grid below instead. | |
| stock_sms = self.config.vision_config.spatial_merge_size | |
| mrope_position_deltas = [] | |
| position_ids = torch.zeros( | |
| 3, | |
| input_ids.shape[0], | |
| input_ids.shape[1], | |
| dtype=input_ids.dtype, | |
| device=input_ids.device, | |
| ) | |
| grid_iters = { | |
| 1: iter(image_grid_thw) if image_grid_thw is not None else None, | |
| 2: iter(video_grid_thw) if video_grid_thw is not None else None, | |
| } | |
| for batch_idx, current_input_ids in enumerate(input_ids): | |
| input_token_type = mm_token_type_ids[batch_idx] | |
| if attention_mask is not None: | |
| current_input_ids = current_input_ids[attention_mask[batch_idx].bool()] | |
| input_token_type = input_token_type[attention_mask[batch_idx].bool()] | |
| input_type_group = [] | |
| for key, group in itertools.groupby(enumerate(input_token_type.tolist()), lambda x: x[1]): | |
| group = list(group) | |
| start_index = group[0][0] | |
| end_index = group[-1][0] + 1 | |
| input_type_group.append((key, start_index, end_index)) | |
| current_pos = 0 | |
| llm_pos_ids_list = [] | |
| for modality_type, start_idx, end_idx in input_type_group: | |
| # Modality IDs: text=0, image=1, video=2. | |
| if modality_type == 0: | |
| text_len = end_idx - start_idx | |
| llm_pos_ids_list.append( | |
| torch.arange(text_len, device=input_ids.device).view(1, -1).expand(3, -1) + current_pos | |
| ) | |
| current_pos += text_len | |
| else: | |
| grid_thw = next(grid_iters[modality_type]) | |
| # Volumes (T>1) match the unmerged 3D processor grid; | |
| # images and individual video frames use the configured size. | |
| grid_sms = 1 if grid_thw[0] > 1 else stock_sms | |
| vision_position_ids = self.get_vision_position_ids( | |
| current_pos, grid_thw, 1, grid_sms, device=input_ids.device | |
| ) | |
| llm_pos_ids_list.append(vision_position_ids) | |
| current_pos += max(grid_thw[1], grid_thw[2]) // grid_sms | |
| llm_positions = torch.cat(llm_pos_ids_list, dim=1).reshape(3, -1) | |
| if attention_mask is not None: | |
| position_ids[:, batch_idx, attention_mask[batch_idx].bool()] = llm_positions.to(position_ids.device) | |
| else: | |
| position_ids[:, batch_idx] = llm_positions.to(position_ids.device) | |
| mrope_position_deltas.append(llm_positions.max() + 1 - len(current_input_ids)) | |
| mrope_position_deltas = torch.tensor(mrope_position_deltas, device=input_ids.device).unsqueeze(1) | |
| return position_ids, mrope_position_deltas | |
| class VLM3D_ForConditionalGeneration(Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration): | |
| """Qwen3.5 conditional generation wrapper with `VLM3D_Model`.""" | |
| _checkpoint_conversion_mapping = {} | |
| def __init__(self, config): | |
| """Initialize conditional generation around ``VLM3D_Model``.""" | |
| # Skip the stock conditional-generation constructor so it does not | |
| # create Qwen3_5Model; install VLM3D_Model below instead. | |
| super(Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration, self).__init__(config) | |
| self.model = VLM3D_Model(config) | |
| self.lm_head = nn.Linear( | |
| config.text_config.hidden_size, config.text_config.vocab_size, bias=False | |
| ) | |
| self.post_init() | |