Instructions to use VGribAI/Tensor-1.5-small with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use VGribAI/Tensor-1.5-small with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="VGribAI/Tensor-1.5-small")# pip install -U transformers accelerate # Load model directly from transformers import AutoModel model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("VGribAI/Tensor-1.5-small", device_map="auto") - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- llama.cpp
How to use VGribAI/Tensor-1.5-small with llama.cpp:
Install (macOS, Linux)
curl -LsSf https://llama.app/install.sh | sh # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI: llama serve -hf VGribAI/Tensor-1.5-small:F16 # Run inference directly in the terminal: llama cli -hf VGribAI/Tensor-1.5-small:F16
Install from WinGet (Windows)
winget install llama.cpp # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI: llama serve -hf VGribAI/Tensor-1.5-small:F16 # Run inference directly in the terminal: llama cli -hf VGribAI/Tensor-1.5-small:F16
Build from source code
git clone https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp.git cd llama.cpp cmake -B build cmake --build build -j --target llama-app # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI: ./build/bin/llama serve -hf VGribAI/Tensor-1.5-small:F16 # Run inference directly in the terminal: ./build/bin/llama cli -hf VGribAI/Tensor-1.5-small:F16
Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/VGribAI/Tensor-1.5-small:F16
- Llama new
- LM Studio
- Jan
- vLLM
How to use VGribAI/Tensor-1.5-small with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "VGribAI/Tensor-1.5-small" # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "VGribAI/Tensor-1.5-small", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "What is the capital of France?" } ] }'Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/VGribAI/Tensor-1.5-small:F16
- SGLang
How to use VGribAI/Tensor-1.5-small 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 "VGribAI/Tensor-1.5-small" \ --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": "VGribAI/Tensor-1.5-small", "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 "VGribAI/Tensor-1.5-small" \ --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": "VGribAI/Tensor-1.5-small", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "What is the capital of France?" } ] }' - Ollama
How to use VGribAI/Tensor-1.5-small with Ollama:
ollama run hf.co/VGribAI/Tensor-1.5-small:F16
- Unsloth Desktop
- Docker Model Runner
How to use VGribAI/Tensor-1.5-small with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/VGribAI/Tensor-1.5-small:F16
- Lemonade
How to use VGribAI/Tensor-1.5-small with Lemonade:
Pull the model
# Download Lemonade from https://lemonade-server.ai/ lemonade pull VGribAI/Tensor-1.5-small:F16
Run and chat with the model
lemonade run user.Tensor-1.5-small-F16
List all available models
lemonade list
- Atomic Chat
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library_name: transformers
pipeline_tag: text-generation
license: apache-2.0
language:
- en
tags:
- text-generation
- conversational
- qwen2
- from-scratch
- english
---
# Tensor 1.5
Tensor 1.5 is a compact conversational language model built from scratch by **VGribAI**.
It opens the Tensor line: the first model whose name carries no parameter size, the first one
trained exclusively in English, and a complete assistant rather than a base checkpoint, since it
has gone through supervised fine-tuning.

## What makes it different
- **No size in the name.** Tensor 1.5 starts a naming scheme where the version identifies the
model, not the parameter count.
- **English only.** The tokenizer, the pretraining and the fine-tuning are all English. The model
is not expected to follow other languages.
- **A finished assistant.** Tensor 1.5 follows the chat format, keeps the assistant role and stops
on its own turn end. It is a model you talk to, not a text continuation base.
## Architecture
| | |
|---|---|
| Decoder | Qwen2 style (12 layers, hidden 640, GQA 8 query / 2 KV heads, SwiGLU) |
| Parameters | 50.26M, tied embeddings |
| Vocabulary | 4000 byte-level BPE, trained for this model |
| Context | 512 tokens |
| Default answer length | 64 tokens |
| Weights | fp32 safetensors, plus a f16 GGUF build |
## Intended use
Short answers, quick summaries, simple rewrites and light chit-chat on weak hardware: CPUs,
old laptops, single-board computers and phones.
## Usage
```python
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("tensor-1.5")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("tensor-1.5")
msgs = [{"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"}]
ids = tok.apply_chat_template(msgs, add_generation_prompt=True, return_tensors="pt")
out = model.generate(ids, max_new_tokens=64, eos_token_id=[0, 2], pad_token_id=2)
print(tok.decode(out[0, ids.shape[1]:], skip_special_tokens=True))
```
## Chat format
```
<|im_start|>system
You are Tensor, a small assistant made by VGribAI.<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
Hello!<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
Hello! How can I help you?<|im_end|>
```
Stop tokens: `<|im_end|>` (id 2) and `<|eos|>` (id 0).
## Limits
- English only.
- 512 tokens of context, 64 tokens per answer.
- A very small model: fluent phrasing, but no reliable factual knowledge, arithmetic or long
reasoning. Treat answers as text, not as facts.
- No memory beyond the current context window. |