Instructions to use microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct", trust_remote_code=True) messages = [ {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"}, ] pipe(messages)# Load model directly from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct", trust_remote_code=True) model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct", trust_remote_code=True) messages = [ {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"}, ] inputs = tokenizer.apply_chat_template( messages, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=True, return_dict=True, return_tensors="pt", ).to(model.device) outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=40) print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:])) - Inference
- Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- vLLM
How to use microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct" # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "What is the capital of France?" } ] }'Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct
- SGLang
How to use microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct 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 "microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct" \ --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": "microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct", "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 "microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct" \ --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": "microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "What is the capital of France?" } ] }' - Docker Model Runner
How to use microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct
Recent change on the rstrip property on special tokens
Hi, Recently there's a breaking change in phi3's tokenizer by adding rstrip options: https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct/commit/4eea1a7b25a14b098aab569599563c37443312cb
However by this change the tokenizer is not lossless anymore, for example:
tokens = tokenizer.encode("<|user|>\n<|end|>\n<|assistant|>")
print(tokenizer.decode(tokens))
will output<|user|><|end|><|assistant|>. Imo this leads to many troubles (for example, drawing ascii arts). Is this change for aligning the actual text generation method during training? If yes, I think it would be better to implement this by changing chat_template to a new-line-free way, since intuitively this happens in chat serialization process, not text tokenization process.
I agree, this is quite problematic for any use case that iteratively walks between text and tokens (e.g. in guidance: https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance).