Instructions to use Sethblocks/Starlight-Flash with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use Sethblocks/Starlight-Flash with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="Sethblocks/Starlight-Flash")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# pip install -U transformers accelerate
# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Sethblocks/Starlight-Flash")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Sethblocks/Starlight-Flash", device_map="auto")
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=256)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:]))

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use Sethblocks/Starlight-Flash with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "Sethblocks/Starlight-Flash"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "Sethblocks/Starlight-Flash",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/Sethblocks/Starlight-Flash

SGLang

How to use Sethblocks/Starlight-Flash 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 "Sethblocks/Starlight-Flash" \
    --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": "Sethblocks/Starlight-Flash",
		"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 "Sethblocks/Starlight-Flash" \
        --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": "Sethblocks/Starlight-Flash",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use Sethblocks/Starlight-Flash with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/Sethblocks/Starlight-Flash
```

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 # Starlight-Flash
-Qwen3.5 text causal LM (`Qwen3_5ForCausalLM`).
-- 32 layers, hidden size 4096, intermediate size 12288
-- vocab 248320
-- dtype bf16
-- context 262144
-- four safetensor shards
-GGUF is a separate repo: [Sethblocks/Starlight-Flash-GGUF](https://huggingface.co/Sethblocks/Starlight-Flash-GGUF) (`Starlight-Flash-9.2B-Q8_0.gguf`).

 # Starlight-Flash
+My newer LLM based on Qwen-3.5 9B. It mostly focuses on personality and some general improvements. The model is not fully Uncensored but is less censored than Qwen.
+## Strengths
+ - Much better than my last models at agentic tasks
+ - Performs extremely fast as a very small model with relatively short CoT.
+ - Much better than Qwen at following a Persona.
+## Weaknesses
+ - Programming could be better, specifically for GUI/webui development.
+ - Tends to require guidance, and sometimes gets confused.
+## Training
+This model has taken the longest of all my models to develop, simply because a significant amount of the training code was rewritten, as well as creating an entirely new RL setup for this model.
+GGUF: [Sethblocks/Starlight-Flash-GGUF](https://huggingface.co/Sethblocks/Starlight-Flash-GGUF)