Instructions to use mlx-community/aya-vision-8b-6bit with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use mlx-community/aya-vision-8b-6bit with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="mlx-community/aya-vision-8b-6bit") 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)# Load model directly from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForImageTextToText processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("mlx-community/aya-vision-8b-6bit") model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained("mlx-community/aya-vision-8b-6bit") 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?"} ] }, ] inputs = processor.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(processor.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:])) - MLX
How to use mlx-community/aya-vision-8b-6bit 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/aya-vision-8b-6bit") config = load_config("mlx-community/aya-vision-8b-6bit") # 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
- LM Studio
- vLLM
How to use mlx-community/aya-vision-8b-6bit with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "mlx-community/aya-vision-8b-6bit" # 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/aya-vision-8b-6bit", "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/aya-vision-8b-6bit
- SGLang
How to use mlx-community/aya-vision-8b-6bit 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/aya-vision-8b-6bit" \ --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/aya-vision-8b-6bit", "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/aya-vision-8b-6bit" \ --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/aya-vision-8b-6bit", "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/aya-vision-8b-6bit with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/mlx-community/aya-vision-8b-6bit
| { | |
| "adapter_layer_norm_eps": 1e-06, | |
| "alignment_activation_fn": "swiglu", | |
| "alignment_intermediate_size": 28672, | |
| "architectures": [ | |
| "AyaVisionForConditionalGeneration" | |
| ], | |
| "downsample_factor": 2, | |
| "image_token_index": 255036, | |
| "max_splits_per_img": 12, | |
| "model_type": "aya_vision", | |
| "projector_hidden_act": "gelu", | |
| "quantization": { | |
| "group_size": 64, | |
| "bits": 6 | |
| }, | |
| "text_config": { | |
| "hidden_size": 4096, | |
| "intermediate_size": 14336, | |
| "logit_scale": 0.25, | |
| "model_type": "cohere2", | |
| "num_attention_heads": 32, | |
| "num_hidden_layers": 32, | |
| "num_key_value_heads": 8, | |
| "rope_theta": 50000, | |
| "torch_dtype": "float16", | |
| "use_qk_norm": false | |
| }, | |
| "torch_dtype": "float16", | |
| "transformers_version": "4.50.0.dev0", | |
| "vision_config": { | |
| "hidden_size": 1152, | |
| "image_size": 364, | |
| "intermediate_size": 4304, | |
| "model_type": "siglip_vision_model", | |
| "num_attention_heads": 16, | |
| "num_hidden_layers": 27, | |
| "patch_size": 14, | |
| "torch_dtype": "float16", | |
| "vision_use_head": false, | |
| "skip_vision": true | |
| }, | |
| "vision_feature_layer": -1, | |
| "vision_feature_select_strategy": "full" | |
| } |