Instructions to use VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF with Transformers:

# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF")
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 AutoModel
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF", dtype="auto")

llama-cpp-python

How to use VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF with llama-cpp-python:

# !pip install llama-cpp-python

from llama_cpp import Llama

llm = Llama.from_pretrained(
	repo_id="VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF",
	filename="SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-Q8_0.gguf",
)

llm.create_chat_completion(
	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"
					}
				}
			]
		}
	]
)

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps

llama.cpp

How to use VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF with llama.cpp:

Install from brew

brew install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
llama-server -hf VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF:Q8_0
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
llama-cli -hf VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF:Q8_0

Install from WinGet (Windows)

winget install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
llama-server -hf VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF:Q8_0
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
llama-cli -hf VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF:Q8_0

Use pre-built binary

# Download pre-built binary from:
# https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/releases
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
./llama-server -hf VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF:Q8_0
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
./llama-cli -hf VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF:Q8_0

Build from source code

git clone https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp.git
cd llama.cpp
cmake -B build
cmake --build build -j --target llama-server llama-cli
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
./build/bin/llama-server -hf VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF:Q8_0
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
./build/bin/llama-cli -hf VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF:Q8_0

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF:Q8_0

LM Studio
Jan

vLLM

How to use VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF",
		"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/VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF:Q8_0

SGLang

How to use VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF 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 "VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF" \
    --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": "VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF",
		"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 "VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF" \
        --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": "VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF",
		"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"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Ollama
How to use VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF with Ollama:
```
ollama run hf.co/VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF:Q8_0
```

Unsloth Studio new

How to use VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF with Unsloth Studio:

Install Unsloth Studio (macOS, Linux, WSL)

curl -fsSL https://unsloth.ai/install.sh | sh
# Run unsloth studio
unsloth studio -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8888
# Then open http://localhost:8888 in your browser
# Search for VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF to start chatting

Install Unsloth Studio (Windows)

irm https://unsloth.ai/install.ps1 | iex
# Run unsloth studio
unsloth studio -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8888
# Then open http://localhost:8888 in your browser
# Search for VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF to start chatting

Using HuggingFace Spaces for Unsloth

# No setup required
# Open https://huggingface.co/spaces/unsloth/studio in your browser
# Search for VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF to start chatting

Docker Model Runner
How to use VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF:Q8_0
```

Lemonade

How to use VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF with Lemonade:

Pull the model

# Download Lemonade from https://lemonade-server.ai/
lemonade pull VyoJ/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF:Q8_0

Run and chat with the model

lemonade run user.SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-be-GGUF-Q8_0

List all available models

lemonade list

Model Information

SmolVLM-500M is a tiny multimodal model by HuggingFace. It was converted to the GGUF format by ggml-org.

I converted it to a big-endian format and uploaded for use on IBM z/OS machines.

Model developer: HuggingFace

Model Architecture: Based on Idefics3

License: Apache 2.0

For more details on the model, please go to Meta's original model card

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GGUF

Model size

0.4B params

Architecture

llama

Hardware compatibility

8-bit

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