README.md

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license: apache-2.0
language:
- zh
- en
pipeline_tag: text-generation
library_name: transformers
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## What's New
- [2025.06.06] **MiniCPM4** series are released! This model achieves ultimate efficiency improvements while maintaining optimal performance at the same scale! It can achieve over 5x generation acceleration on typical end-side chips! You can find technical report [here](https://github.com/OpenBMB/MiniCPM/tree/main/report/MiniCPM_4_Technical_Report.pdf).🔥🔥🔥

## MiniCPM4 Series
MiniCPM4 series are highly efficient large language models (LLMs) designed explicitly for end-side devices, which achieves this efficiency through systematic innovation in four key dimensions: model architecture, training data, training algorithms, and inference systems.
- [MiniCPM4-8B](https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM4-8B): The flagship of MiniCPM4, with 8B parameters, trained on 8T tokens.
- [MiniCPM4-0.5B](https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM4-0.5B): The small version of MiniCPM4, with 0.5B parameters, trained on 1T tokens. (**<-- you are here**)
- [MiniCPM4-8B-Eagle-FRSpec](https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM4-8B-Eagle-FRSpec): Eagle head for FRSpec, accelerating speculative inference for MiniCPM4-8B.
- [MiniCPM4-8B-Eagle-FRSpec-QAT-cpmcu](https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM4-8B-Eagle-FRSpec-QAT-cpmcu): Eagle head trained with QAT for FRSpec, efficiently integrate speculation and quantization to achieve ultra acceleration for MiniCPM4-8B.
- [MiniCPM4-8B-Eagle-vLLM](https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM4-8B-Eagle-vLLM): Eagle head in vLLM format, accelerating speculative inference for MiniCPM4-8B.
- [MiniCPM4-8B-marlin-Eagle-vLLM](https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM4-8B-marlin-Eagle-vLLM): Quantized Eagle head for vLLM format, accelerating speculative inference for MiniCPM4-8B.
- [BitCPM4-0.5B](https://huggingface.co/openbmb/BitCPM4-0.5B): Extreme ternary quantization applied to MiniCPM4-0.5B compresses model parameters into ternary values, achieving a 90% reduction in bit width.
- [BitCPM4-1B](https://huggingface.co/openbmb/BitCPM4-1B): Extreme ternary quantization applied to MiniCPM3-1B compresses model parameters into ternary values, achieving a 90% reduction in bit width.
- [MiniCPM4-Survey](https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM4-Survey): Based on MiniCPM4-8B, accepts users' quiries as input and autonomously generate trustworthy, long-form survey papers.
- [MiniCPM4-MCP](https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM4-MCP): Based on MiniCPM4-8B, accepts users' queries and available MCP tools as input and autonomously calls relevant MCP tools to satisfy users' requirements.

## Introduction
MiniCPM 4 is an extremely efficient edge-side large model that has undergone efficient optimization across four dimensions: model architecture, learning algorithms, training data, and inference systems, achieving ultimate efficiency improvements.

- 🏗️ **Efficient Model Architecture:**
  - InfLLM v2 -- Trainable Sparse Attention Mechanism: Adopts a trainable sparse attention mechanism architecture where each token only needs to compute relevance with less than 5% of tokens in 128K long text processing, significantly reducing computational overhead for long texts

- 🧠 **Efficient Learning Algorithms:**
  - Model Wind Tunnel 2.0 -- Efficient Predictable Scaling: Introduces scaling prediction methods for performance of downstream tasks, enabling more precise model training configuration search
  - BitCPM -- Ultimate Ternary Quantization: Compresses model parameter bit-width to 3 values, achieving 90% extreme model bit-width reduction
  - Efficient Training Engineering Optimization: Adopts FP8 low-precision computing technology combined with Multi-token Prediction training strategy

- 📚 **High-Quality Training Data:**
  - UltraClean -- High-quality Pre-training Data Filtering and Generation: Builds iterative data cleaning strategies based on efficient data verification, open-sourcing high-quality Chinese and English pre-training dataset [UltraFinweb](https://huggingface.co/datasets/openbmb/Ultra-FineWeb)
  - UltraChat v2 -- High-quality Supervised Fine-tuning Data Generation: Constructs large-scale high-quality supervised fine-tuning datasets covering multiple dimensions including knowledge-intensive data, reasoning-intensive data, instruction-following data, long text understanding data, and tool calling data

- ⚡ **Efficient Inference System:**
  - CPM.cu -- Lightweight and Efficient CUDA Inference Framework: Integrates sparse attention, model quantization, and speculative sampling to achieve efficient prefilling and decoding
  - ArkInfer -- Cross-platform Deployment System: Supports efficient deployment across multiple backend environments, providing flexible cross-platform adaptation capabilities

## Usage
### Inference with Transformers
```python
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
import torch
torch.manual_seed(0)

path = 'openbmb/MiniCPM4-0.5B'
device = "cuda"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(path)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(path, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16, device_map=device, trust_remote_code=True)

# User can directly use the chat interface
responds, history = model.chat(tokenizer, "Write an article about Artificial Intelligence.", temperature=0.7, top_p=0.7)
print(responds)

# User can also use the generate interface
# messages = [
#     {"role": "user", "content": "Write an article about Artificial Intelligence."},
# ]
# prompt_text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
#     messages,
#     tokenize=False,
#     add_generation_prompt=True,
# )
# model_inputs = tokenizer([prompt_text], return_tensors="pt")['input_ids'].to(device)

# model_outputs = model.generate(
#     model_inputs,
#     max_new_tokens=1024,
#     top_p=0.7,
#     temperature=0.7
# )
# output_token_ids = [
#     model_outputs[i][len(model_inputs[i]):] for i in range(len(model_inputs))
# ]

# responses = tokenizer.batch_decode(output_token_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)[0]
# print(responses)
```

### Inference with [SGLang](https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang)

For now, you need to install our forked version of SGLang.
```bash
git clone -b openbmb https://github.com/OpenBMB/sglang.git
cd sglang

pip install --upgrade pip
pip install -e "python[all]"
```

You can start the inference server by running the following command:
```bash
python -m sglang.launch_server --model openbmb/MiniCPM4-0.5B --trust-remote-code --port 30000 --chat-template chatml
```

Then you can use the chat interface by running the following command:
```python
import openai

client = openai.Client(base_url=f"http://localhost:30000/v1", api_key="None")

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="openbmb/MiniCPM4-0.5B",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Write an article about Artificial Intelligence."},
    ],
    temperature=0.7,
    max_tokens=1024,
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)
```

### Inference with [vLLM](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm)
For now, you need to install the latest version of vLLM.
```
pip install -U vllm \
    --pre \
    --extra-index-url https://wheels.vllm.ai/nightly
```

Then you can inference MiniCPM4-0.5B with vLLM:
```python
from transformers import AutoTokenizer
from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams

model_name = "openbmb/MiniCPM4-0.5B"
prompt = [{"role": "user", "content": "Please recommend 5 tourist attractions in Beijing. "}]

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name, trust_remote_code=True)
input_text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(prompt, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True)

llm = LLM(
    model=model_name,
    trust_remote_code=True,
    max_num_batched_tokens=32768, 
    dtype="bfloat16", 
    gpu_memory_utilization=0.8, 
)
sampling_params = SamplingParams(top_p=0.7, temperature=0.7, max_tokens=1024, repetition_penalty=1.02)

outputs = llm.generate(prompts=input_text, sampling_params=sampling_params)

print(outputs[0].outputs[0].text)
```

Also, you can start the inference server by running the following command:
> **Note**: In vLLM's chat API, `add_special_tokens` is `False` by default. This means important special tokens—such as the beginning-of-sequence (BOS) token—will not be added automatically. To ensure the input prompt is correctly formatted for the model, you should explicitly set `extra_body={"add_special_tokens": True}`.

```bash
vllm serve openbmb/MiniCPM4-0.5B 
```

Then you can use the chat interface by running the following code:

```python
import openai

client = openai.Client(base_url="http://localhost:8000/v1", api_key="EMPTY")

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="openbmb/MiniCPM4-0.5B",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Write an article about Artificial Intelligence."},
    ],
    temperature=0.7,
    max_tokens=1024,
    extra_body=dict(add_special_tokens=True),  # Ensures special tokens are added for chat template
    
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)
```


## Evaluation Results
On two typical end-side chips, Jetson AGX Orin and RTX 4090, MiniCPM4 demonstrates significantly faster processing speed compared to similar-size models in long text processing tasks. As text length increases, MiniCPM4's efficiency advantage becomes more pronounced. On the Jetson AGX Orin platform, compared to Qwen3-8B, MiniCPM4 achieves approximately 7x decoding speed improvement.

![benchmark](https://github.com/OpenBMB/MiniCPM/blob/main/assets/minicpm4/efficiency.png?raw=true)

#### Comprehensive Evaluation
MiniCPM4 launches end-side versions with 8B and 0.5B parameter scales, both achieving best-in-class performance in their respective categories.

![benchmark](https://github.com/OpenBMB/MiniCPM/blob/main/assets/minicpm4/benchmark.png?raw=true)

#### Long Text Evaluation
MiniCPM4 is pre-trained on 32K long texts and achieves length extension through YaRN technology. In the 128K long text needle-in-a-haystack task, MiniCPM4 demonstrates outstanding performance.

![long-niah](https://github.com/OpenBMB/MiniCPM/blob/main/assets/minicpm4/128k-niah.png?raw=true)

## Statement
- As a language model, MiniCPM generates content by learning from a vast amount of text. 
- However, it does not possess the ability to comprehend or express personal opinions or value judgments. 
- Any content generated by MiniCPM does not represent the viewpoints or positions of the model developers. 
- Therefore, when using content generated by MiniCPM, users should take full responsibility for evaluating and verifying it on their own.

## LICENSE
- This repository and MiniCPM models are released under the [Apache-2.0](https://github.com/OpenBMB/MiniCPM/blob/main/LICENSE) License. 

## Citation
- Please cite our [paper](https://github.com/OpenBMB/MiniCPM/tree/main/report/MiniCPM_4_Technical_Report.pdf) if you find our work valuable.

```bibtex
@article{minicpm4,
  title={{MiniCPM4}: Ultra-Efficient LLMs on End Devices},
  author={MiniCPM Team},
  year={2025}
}
```