Instructions to use ValiantLabs/Qwen3.6-27B-Esper3.1 with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use ValiantLabs/Qwen3.6-27B-Esper3.1 with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="ValiantLabs/Qwen3.6-27B-Esper3.1")
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 AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("ValiantLabs/Qwen3.6-27B-Esper3.1")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("ValiantLabs/Qwen3.6-27B-Esper3.1")
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 = 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]:]))

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps

vLLM

How to use ValiantLabs/Qwen3.6-27B-Esper3.1 with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "ValiantLabs/Qwen3.6-27B-Esper3.1"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "ValiantLabs/Qwen3.6-27B-Esper3.1",
		"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/ValiantLabs/Qwen3.6-27B-Esper3.1

SGLang

How to use ValiantLabs/Qwen3.6-27B-Esper3.1 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 "ValiantLabs/Qwen3.6-27B-Esper3.1" \
    --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": "ValiantLabs/Qwen3.6-27B-Esper3.1",
		"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 "ValiantLabs/Qwen3.6-27B-Esper3.1" \
        --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": "ValiantLabs/Qwen3.6-27B-Esper3.1",
		"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 ValiantLabs/Qwen3.6-27B-Esper3.1 with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/ValiantLabs/Qwen3.6-27B-Esper3.1
```
Browse Quantizations to use this model in llama.cpp, Ollama, LM Studio, or any compatible app.

Support our open-source dataset and model releases!

Esper 3.1: Ministral-3-3B-Reasoning-2512, Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507, Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-2512, Ministral-3-14B-Reasoning-2512, gpt-oss-20b, Qwen3.5-27B, Qwen3.6-27B, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

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Prompting Guide

Esper 3.1 uses the Qwen3.6-27B prompt format.

Example inference script to get started:

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model_name = "ValiantLabs/Qwen3.6-27B-Esper3.1"

# load the tokenizer and the model
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    model_name,
    torch_dtype="auto",
    device_map="auto"
)

# prepare the model input
prompt = "Write a Terraform configuration that uses the `aws_ami` data source to find the latest Amazon Linux 2 AMI. Then, provision an EC2 instance using this dynamically determined AMI ID."
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": prompt}
]
text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
    messages,
    tokenize=False,
    add_generation_prompt=True,
    enable_thinking=True # Switches between thinking and non-thinking modes. Default is True.
)
model_inputs = tokenizer([text], return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)

# conduct text completion
generated_ids = model.generate(
    **model_inputs,
    max_new_tokens=32768
)
output_ids = generated_ids[0][len(model_inputs.input_ids[0]):].tolist() 

# parsing thinking content
try:
    # rindex finding 248069 (</think>)
    index = len(output_ids) - output_ids[::-1].index(248069)
except ValueError:
    index = 0

thinking_content = tokenizer.decode(output_ids[:index], skip_special_tokens=True).strip("\n")
content = tokenizer.decode(output_ids[index:], skip_special_tokens=True).strip("\n")

print("thinking content:", thinking_content)
print("content:", content)