Instructions to use VGribAI/Tensor-1.5-small with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

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

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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

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

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.

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Model size

50.3M params

Architecture

qwen2

Hardware compatibility

16-bit

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