Instructions to use tiny-random/lfm3-vl with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use tiny-random/lfm3-vl with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="tiny-random/lfm3-vl", 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)# pip install -U transformers accelerate # Load model directly from transformers import AutoModelForImageTextToText model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained("tiny-random/lfm3-vl", trust_remote_code=True, device_map="auto") - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- vLLM
How to use tiny-random/lfm3-vl with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "tiny-random/lfm3-vl" # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "tiny-random/lfm3-vl", "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/tiny-random/lfm3-vl
- SGLang
How to use tiny-random/lfm3-vl 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 "tiny-random/lfm3-vl" \ --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": "tiny-random/lfm3-vl", "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 "tiny-random/lfm3-vl" \ --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": "tiny-random/lfm3-vl", "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 tiny-random/lfm3-vl with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/tiny-random/lfm3-vl
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https://huggingface.co/tiny-random/lfm3-vl/resolve/main/README.md
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hf download hf://tiny-random/lfm3-vl/README.md
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| library_name: transformers | |
| pipeline_tag: image-text-to-text | |
| base_model: | |
| - LiquidAI/LFM3-VL-2B | |
| This is a randomly initialized tiny model based on [LiquidAI/LFM3-VL-2B](https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM3-VL-2B) for testing and debugging. | |
| | Feature | Source | This repo | | |
| |---|---|---| | |
| | Checkpoint tensor elements | 1.92B BF16 | 13.81M BF16 | | |
| | Safetensors weight files | 3.84 GB (model.safetensors) | 27.64 MB (model.safetensors) | | |
| | Text layers / layer-type cycle | 24 / two-conv prefix, then full/conv/sliding/conv | 10 / same prefix and two complete cycles | | |
| | Text hidden width / MLP width | 2,048 / 7,680 | 64 / 128 | | |
| | Text Q heads / KV heads / head dim | 16 / 4 / 128 | 16 / 4 / 32 | | |
| | Vision layers / layer-type cycle | 14 / two-conv prefix, then six full/conv pairs | 6 / same prefix and two complete full/conv cycles | | |
| | Vision hidden width / MLP width | 1,024 / 2,560 | 256 / 640 | | |
| | Vision Q heads / KV heads / head dim | 16 / 8 / 64 | 8 / 4 / 32 | | |
| | Patch / temporal patch / spatial merge | 16 / 2 / 2 | Same | | |
| | Vision depthwise conv kernel | 3 x 3 | Same | | |
| | RoPE | vision axial theta 1e6; text full/sliding dual theta | Same | | |
| | Projector MLP hidden / downsample factor | 4,096 / 2 | 128 / 2 | | |
| | Sandwich norms / QK RMSNorm / sigmoid head gate | present | Same | | |
| | Vocabulary rows / embedding tying | 128,000 / tied | Same | | |
| | Text maximum context length | 128,000 | Same | | |
| | Stored precision | BF16 | Same | | |
| Text-backbone widths follow [tiny-random/lfm3](https://huggingface.co/tiny-random/lfm3), which follows [tiny-random/lfm2](https://huggingface.co/tiny-random/lfm2). The pinned upstream implementation is included for Transformers loading. This repo provides a Transformers example with image and video inputs; no serving-backend validation is claimed. | |
| | File path | Size | | |
| |------|------| | |
| | model.safetensors | 27.6MB | | |
| ### Example usage | |
| #### Transformers (✅ verified) | |
| Load the included pinned upstream implementation with `trust_remote_code=True`. The example sends one image and four predecoded video frames with complete `VideoMetadata`; the Triton short-conv path requires CUDA. | |
| ```python | |
| def run_transformers(model_id: str): | |
| import numpy as np | |
| import torch | |
| from PIL import Image | |
| from transformers import AutoModelForImageTextToText, AutoProcessor | |
| from transformers.video_utils import VideoMetadata | |
| model_id = str(model_id) | |
| processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_id, trust_remote_code=True) | |
| model = ( | |
| AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained( | |
| model_id, trust_remote_code=True, dtype=torch.bfloat16, attn_implementation="sdpa" | |
| ) | |
| .eval() | |
| .cuda() | |
| ) | |
| image = Image.fromarray(np.random.randint(0, 255, (256, 256, 3), dtype=np.uint8), "RGB") | |
| frames = np.stack( | |
| [ | |
| np.asarray(Image.new("RGB", (256, 256), color)) | |
| for color in ((220, 30, 30), (30, 220, 30), (30, 30, 220), (220, 220, 30)) | |
| ] | |
| ) | |
| messages = [ | |
| { | |
| "role": "user", | |
| "content": [ | |
| {"type": "image", "image": image}, | |
| {"type": "video", "video": frames}, | |
| {"type": "text", "text": "Describe the image and the video."}, | |
| ], | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| inputs = processor.apply_chat_template( | |
| messages, | |
| add_generation_prompt=True, | |
| tokenize=True, | |
| return_dict=True, | |
| return_tensors="pt", | |
| enable_thinking=False, | |
| processor_kwargs={"video_metadata": [VideoMetadata(total_num_frames=4, fps=2, frames_indices=[0, 1, 2, 3])]}, | |
| ).to(model.device) | |
| assert inputs["pixel_values"].shape[0] > 0 and inputs["pixel_values_videos"].shape[0] > 0 | |
| with torch.no_grad(): | |
| logits = model(**inputs).logits | |
| assert torch.isfinite(logits).all() | |
| output = model.generate(**inputs, do_sample=False, max_new_tokens=32) | |
| print(processor.decode(output[0, inputs["input_ids"].shape[1] :], skip_special_tokens=False)) | |
| if __name__ == "__main__": | |
| run_transformers(model_id="tiny-random/lfm3-vl") | |
| ``` | |
| ### Creating this repo | |
| - Code: [.meta/create_model.py](.meta/create_model.py) | |
| - Model structure: [.meta/model.log](.meta/model.log) | |
| - Environment: [.meta/env.json](.meta/env.json) | |
| ### Change log | |
| - 2026-11-01: Initial version. Text backbone matches tiny-random/lfm3's residual/MLP widths (64/128, ten layers with the two-conv prefix and two full/conv/sliding/conv cycles) but keeps the source 4:1 Q/KV ratio with 16 Q heads and at least four KV heads (4) at head dim 32 for TP=4. The vision tower keeps the source 2:1 Q/KV ratio with 8 Q heads / 4 KV heads, which requires width 256 for its derived head dim of 32; it retains the conv/conv prefix, two full/conv cycles, patch 16, temporal patch 2, merge size 2 and axial RoPE. | |
| *This repo is generated by GPT-6.1-Sol.* |