Image-Text-to-Text
Transformers
Safetensors
PyTorch
nemotron_labs_diffusion_vlm
feature-extraction
nvidia
multimodal
vlm
diffusion-language-model
conversational
custom_code
Instructions to use nvidia/Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-VLM-8B with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use nvidia/Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-VLM-8B with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="nvidia/Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-VLM-8B", 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/Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-VLM-8B", trust_remote_code=True, dtype="auto") - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps
- vLLM
How to use nvidia/Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-VLM-8B with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "nvidia/Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-VLM-8B" # 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/Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-VLM-8B", "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/Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-VLM-8B
- SGLang
How to use nvidia/Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-VLM-8B 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/Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-VLM-8B" \ --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/Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-VLM-8B", "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/Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-VLM-8B" \ --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/Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-VLM-8B", "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/Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-VLM-8B with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/nvidia/Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-VLM-8B
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Image processing utilities for Nemotron-Diffusion-Exp-Ministral-8B-Instruct (final-template).
Implements image token expansion and pixel value preprocessing,
faithfully ported from mistral_common.tokens.tokenizers.image.ImageEncoder
to ensure identical image sizing and token counts.
Special token mapping (final-template version):
<|image_start|> (id=18) = [IMG_START] image start marker
<|image_pad|> (id=19) = [IMG] image pad token (one per merged patch)
<|image_break|> (id=20) = [IMG_BREAK] image row break
<|image_end|> (id=21) = [IMG_END] image end marker
After expansion, each image placeholder becomes:
[IMG_START] ([IMG]*W [IMG_BREAK]) * (H-1) [IMG]*W [IMG_END]
where W = width_tokens, H = height_tokens (computed via ceiling division
on the original image dims, matching mistral_common exactly).
"""
import os
from io import BytesIO
from typing import Any, Dict, List, Tuple, Union
import cv2
import numpy as np
import requests
import torch
from PIL import Image
# ββ Token strings (must match tokenizer_config.json) ββββββββββββββββββββββββββ
IMG_START_TOKEN = "<|image_start|>" # id = 18
IMG_PAD_TOKEN = "<|image_pad|>" # id = 19
IMG_BREAK_TOKEN = "<|image_break|>" # id = 20
IMG_END_TOKEN = "<|image_end|>" # id = 21
# ββ Token IDs βββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ
IMG_START_ID = 18
IMG_PAD_ID = 19
IMG_BREAK_ID = 20
IMG_END_ID = 21
# ββ Default config (from config.json / processor_config.json) βββββββββββββββββ
DEFAULT_PATCH_SIZE = 14
DEFAULT_SPATIAL_MERGE_SIZE = 2
DEFAULT_MAX_IMAGE_SIZE = 1400 # longest edge
# Allow override via environment variable (e.g. from run_all_benchmarks.sh)
_env_max = os.environ.get("DEFAULT_MAX_IMAGE_SIZE")
if _env_max is not None and str(_env_max).strip():
try:
DEFAULT_MAX_IMAGE_SIZE = int(_env_max)
except ValueError:
pass
DATASET_MEAN = (0.48145466, 0.4578275, 0.40821073) # RGB
DATASET_STD = (0.26862954, 0.26130258, 0.27577711) # RGB
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# Image loading (mirrors mistral_common.tokens.tokenizers.image)
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def _convert_to_rgb(image: Image.Image) -> Image.Image:
"""Convert PIL image to RGB; transparent backgrounds become white."""
if image.mode == "RGB":
return image
if image.mode != "RGBA":
image = image.convert("RGBA")
white_bg = Image.new("RGBA", image.size, "WHITE")
white_bg.paste(image, (0, 0), image)
return white_bg.convert("RGB")
def load_image(source: Union[str, Image.Image]) -> Image.Image:
"""Load an image from a URL, local file path, or PIL Image."""
if isinstance(source, Image.Image):
return source
if source.startswith(("http://", "https://")):
resp = requests.get(source, stream=True, timeout=30)
resp.raise_for_status()
return Image.open(BytesIO(resp.content))
return Image.open(source)
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# Core logic β ported from mistral_common ImageEncoder
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def _image_to_num_tokens(
img: Image.Image,
image_patch_size: int = DEFAULT_PATCH_SIZE,
max_image_size: int = DEFAULT_MAX_IMAGE_SIZE,
spatial_merge_size: int = DEFAULT_SPATIAL_MERGE_SIZE,
) -> Tuple[int, int]:
"""
Compute (width_tokens, height_tokens) for a given image β identical to
``mistral_common.tokens.tokenizers.image.ImageEncoder._image_to_num_tokens``.
"""
w, h = img.size # PIL: (W, H)
ratio = max(h / max_image_size, w / max_image_size)
if ratio > 1:
w = round(w / ratio)
h = round(h / ratio)
width_tokens = (w - 1) // (image_patch_size * spatial_merge_size) + 1
height_tokens = (h - 1) // (image_patch_size * spatial_merge_size) + 1
return width_tokens, height_tokens
def transform_image(
image: Image.Image,
new_size: Tuple[int, int],
mean: Tuple[float, ...] = DATASET_MEAN,
std: Tuple[float, ...] = DATASET_STD,
) -> np.ndarray:
"""
Resize + normalise β identical to
``mistral_common.tokens.tokenizers.image.transform_image``.
Args:
image: PIL Image (any mode).
new_size: Target (W, H) β cv2 convention.
Returns:
np.ndarray of shape (C, H, W), float32, normalised.
"""
np_image = cv2.resize(
np.array(_convert_to_rgb(image), dtype=np.float32),
new_size,
interpolation=cv2.INTER_CUBIC,
)
np_image = np_image / 255.0
np_image = (np_image - np.array(mean, dtype=np.float32)) / np.array(std, dtype=np.float32)
return np_image.transpose(2, 0, 1)
def encode_image(
image: Image.Image,
image_patch_size: int = DEFAULT_PATCH_SIZE,
max_image_size: int = DEFAULT_MAX_IMAGE_SIZE,
spatial_merge_size: int = DEFAULT_SPATIAL_MERGE_SIZE,
) -> Tuple[int, int, np.ndarray]:
"""
Compute token dimensions **and** preprocessed pixel array for one image.
Returns:
(width_tokens, height_tokens, pixel_array)
where pixel_array has shape (C, H, W).
"""
w_tok, h_tok = _image_to_num_tokens(
image, image_patch_size, max_image_size, spatial_merge_size,
)
assert w_tok > 0 and h_tok > 0
new_w = w_tok * image_patch_size * spatial_merge_size
new_h = h_tok * image_patch_size * spatial_merge_size
processed = transform_image(image, (new_w, new_h)) # cv2: (W, H)
return w_tok, h_tok, processed
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# Token string expansion
# ββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ
def build_image_token_str(w_tokens: int, h_tokens: int) -> str:
"""
Build the expanded image-token string for one image.
Pattern:
[IMG_START]
([IMG]*W [IMG_BREAK]) * (H-1)
[IMG]*W [IMG_END]
"""
row = IMG_PAD_TOKEN * w_tokens + IMG_BREAK_TOKEN
body = row * h_tokens
body = body[: -len(IMG_BREAK_TOKEN)] + IMG_END_TOKEN
return IMG_START_TOKEN + body
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# Extract image sources from OpenAI-style messages
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def _extract_image_sources(messages: List[Dict[str, Any]]) -> List[str]:
"""Walk through OpenAI-style messages and collect image URLs / paths."""
sources: List[str] = []
for msg in messages:
content = msg.get("content", "")
if not isinstance(content, list):
continue
for block in content:
btype = block.get("type")
if btype == "image_url":
url_obj = block.get("image_url", {})
sources.append(url_obj.get("url", ""))
elif btype == "image":
for key in ("url", "path", "image"):
if key in block:
sources.append(block[key])
break
return sources
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# Public API
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def process_messages(
tokenizer,
messages: List[Dict[str, Any]],
*,
patch_size: int = DEFAULT_PATCH_SIZE,
spatial_merge_size: int = DEFAULT_SPATIAL_MERGE_SIZE,
max_image_size: int = DEFAULT_MAX_IMAGE_SIZE,
return_tensors: str = "pt",
add_generation_prompt: bool = False,
enable_thinking: bool = True,
) -> Dict[str, Any]:
"""
Process chat messages with optional images β drop-in replacement for
``MistralCommonBackend.apply_chat_template(return_dict=True)``.
Steps:
1. Render Jinja chat template β prompt with ``<|image_start|>`` placeholders.
2. For each image:
a. Load image.
b. Compute token dims via ceiling division (matching mistral_common).
c. Resize to token-aligned dimensions with cv2 INTER_CUBIC.
d. Normalise pixels.
e. Replace the next ``<|image_start|>`` placeholder with the expanded
token sequence.
3. Tokenize the expanded prompt.
4. Return dict with ``input_ids`` (and ``pixel_values`` / ``image_sizes``
if images are present).
Args:
enable_thinking: When True (default), the generation prompt opens a
``<think>`` block for chain-of-thought reasoning. When False,
an empty ``<think></think>`` is emitted so the model skips
the thinking phase.
Returns:
dict with keys:
input_ids : LongTensor (1, seq_len)
pixel_values : FloatTensor (N, 3, H, W) β only when images present
image_sizes : list of (H, W) tuples β only when images present
"""
# ββ 1. Extract image sources ββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ
image_sources = _extract_image_sources(messages)
# ββ 2. Render chat template (produces <|image_start|> placeholders) ββ
prompt: str = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
messages,
tokenize=False,
add_generation_prompt=add_generation_prompt,
enable_thinking=enable_thinking,
)
# ββ 3. Expand each placeholder & preprocess images ββββββββββββββββββββ
pixel_list: List[np.ndarray] = []
image_sizes: List[Tuple[int, int]] = []
for src in image_sources:
pil_img = load_image(src)
w_tok, h_tok, pixels = encode_image(
pil_img, patch_size, max_image_size, spatial_merge_size,
)
expanded = build_image_token_str(w_tok, h_tok)
prompt = prompt.replace(IMG_START_TOKEN, expanded, 1)
pixel_list.append(pixels)
final_h = h_tok * patch_size * spatial_merge_size
final_w = w_tok * patch_size * spatial_merge_size
image_sizes.append((final_h, final_w))
# ββ 4. Tokenize ββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ
if return_tensors == "pt":
input_ids = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt").input_ids
else:
input_ids = tokenizer(prompt).input_ids
result: Dict[str, Any] = {"input_ids": input_ids}
if pixel_list:
if return_tensors == "pt":
result["pixel_values"] = torch.from_numpy(np.stack(pixel_list))
else:
result["pixel_values"] = np.stack(pixel_list)
result["image_sizes"] = image_sizes
return result
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