Image-Text-to-Text
Transformers
Safetensors
MLX
English
lfm2-vl
liquid
lfm2
edge
conversational
custom_code
8-bit precision
Instructions to use mlx-community/LFM2-VL-450M-8bit with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use mlx-community/LFM2-VL-450M-8bit with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="mlx-community/LFM2-VL-450M-8bit", trust_remote_code=True) messages = [ { "role": "user", "content": [ {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"}, {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"} ] }, ] pipe(text=messages)# pip install -U transformers accelerate # Load model directly from transformers import AutoModelForMultimodalLM model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("mlx-community/LFM2-VL-450M-8bit", trust_remote_code=True, device_map="auto") - MLX
How to use mlx-community/LFM2-VL-450M-8bit with MLX:
# Make sure mlx-vlm is installed # pip install --upgrade mlx-vlm from mlx_vlm import load, generate from mlx_vlm.prompt_utils import apply_chat_template from mlx_vlm.utils import load_config # Load the model model, processor = load("mlx-community/LFM2-VL-450M-8bit") config = load_config("mlx-community/LFM2-VL-450M-8bit") # Prepare input image = ["http://images.cocodataset.org/val2017/000000039769.jpg"] prompt = "Describe this image." # Apply chat template formatted_prompt = apply_chat_template( processor, config, prompt, num_images=1 ) # Generate output output = generate(model, processor, formatted_prompt, image) print(output) - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- LM Studio
- vLLM
How to use mlx-community/LFM2-VL-450M-8bit with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "mlx-community/LFM2-VL-450M-8bit" # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "mlx-community/LFM2-VL-450M-8bit", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] }'Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/mlx-community/LFM2-VL-450M-8bit
- SGLang
How to use mlx-community/LFM2-VL-450M-8bit 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 "mlx-community/LFM2-VL-450M-8bit" \ --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": "mlx-community/LFM2-VL-450M-8bit", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] }'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 "mlx-community/LFM2-VL-450M-8bit" \ --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": "mlx-community/LFM2-VL-450M-8bit", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] }' - Docker Model Runner
How to use mlx-community/LFM2-VL-450M-8bit with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/mlx-community/LFM2-VL-450M-8bit
- Atomic Chat
Download chat_template.jinja from mlx-community/LFM2-VL-450M-8bit: direct link, hf CLI and curl.
- Browser
- Download file 434 Bytes
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https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/LFM2-VL-450M-8bit/resolve/main/chat_template.jinja
- Command line
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hf download hf://mlx-community/LFM2-VL-450M-8bit/chat_template.jinja
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curl -L -o chat_template.jinja https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/LFM2-VL-450M-8bit/resolve/main/chat_template.jinja
434 Bytes
| {{bos_token}}{% for message in messages %}{{'<|im_start|>' + message['role'] + ' | |
| '}}{% if message['content'] is string %}{{ message['content'] }}{% else %}{% for content in message['content'] %}{% if content['type'] == 'image' %}{{ '<image>' }}{% elif content['type'] == 'text' %}{{ content['text'] }}{% endif %}{% endfor %}{% endif %}{{'<|im_end|> | |
| '}}{% endfor %}{% if add_generation_prompt %}{{'<|im_start|>assistant | |
| ' }}{% endif %} |