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

Libraries

How to use nvidia/Riva-Translate-4B-Instruct with Transformers:

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

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

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("nvidia/Riva-Translate-4B-Instruct")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("nvidia/Riva-Translate-4B-Instruct")
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 Settings

vLLM

How to use nvidia/Riva-Translate-4B-Instruct with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "nvidia/Riva-Translate-4B-Instruct"
# 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/Riva-Translate-4B-Instruct",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/nvidia/Riva-Translate-4B-Instruct

SGLang

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

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

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 ## License
 [NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/agreements/enterprise-software/nvidia-open-model-license/)
 ## Prompt Format:
 We recommend using the following prompt template, which was used to fine-tune the model. The model may not perform optimally without it.

 ## License
 [NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/agreements/enterprise-software/nvidia-open-model-license/)
+## Discover more from NVIDIA:
+For documentation, deployment guides, enterprise-ready APIs, and the latest open models—including Nemotron and other cutting-edge speech, translation, and generative AI—visit the NVIDIA Developer Portal at [developer.nvidia.com](developer.nvidia.com).
+Join the community to access tools, support, and resources to accelerate your development with NVIDIA’s NeMo, Riva, NIM, and foundation models.<br>
+### Explore more from NVIDIA:  <br>
+What is [Nemotron](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/ai-data-science/foundation-models/nemotron/)?<br>
+NVIDIA Developer [Nemotron](https://developer.nvidia.com/nemotron)<br>
+[NVIDIA Riva Speech](https://developer.nvidia.com/riva?sortBy=developer_learning_library%2Fsort%2Ffeatured_in.riva%3Adesc%2Ctitle%3Aasc#demos)<br>
+[NeMo Documentation](https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo-framework/user-guide/latest/nemotoolkit/asr/models.html)<br>
 ## Prompt Format:
 We recommend using the following prompt template, which was used to fine-tune the model. The model may not perform optimally without it.