- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use apple/FastVLM-0.5B with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline
pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="apple/FastVLM-0.5B", trust_remote_code=True)
messages = [
{"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages) # pip install -U transformers accelerate
# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("apple/FastVLM-0.5B", trust_remote_code=True, device_map="auto") - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- vLLM
How to use apple/FastVLM-0.5B with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "apple/FastVLM-0.5B"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{
"model": "apple/FastVLM-0.5B",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "What is the capital of France?"
}
]
}'Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/apple/FastVLM-0.5B
- SGLang
How to use apple/FastVLM-0.5B 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 "apple/FastVLM-0.5B" \
--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": "apple/FastVLM-0.5B",
"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 "apple/FastVLM-0.5B" \
--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": "apple/FastVLM-0.5B",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "What is the capital of France?"
}
]
}' - Docker Model Runner
How to use apple/FastVLM-0.5B with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/apple/FastVLM-0.5B
