Libraries Transformers How to use openai-community/gpt2-medium with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline
pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="openai-community/gpt2-medium") # pip install -U transformers accelerate
# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("openai-community/gpt2-medium")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("openai-community/gpt2-medium", device_map="auto") Notebooks Google Colab Kaggle Local Apps Settings vLLM How to use openai-community/gpt2-medium with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model # Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "openai-community/gpt2-medium"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/completions" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{
"model": "openai-community/gpt2-medium",
"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
"max_tokens": 512,
"temperature": 0.5
}' Use Docker docker model run hf.co/openai-community/gpt2-medium SGLang How to use openai-community/gpt2-medium 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 "openai-community/gpt2-medium" \
--host 0.0.0.0 \
--port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{
"model": "openai-community/gpt2-medium",
"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
"max_tokens": 512,
"temperature": 0.5
}' 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 "openai-community/gpt2-medium" \
--host 0.0.0.0 \
--port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{
"model": "openai-community/gpt2-medium",
"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
"max_tokens": 512,
"temperature": 0.5
}' Docker Model Runner How to use openai-community/gpt2-medium with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/openai-community/gpt2-medium 
