Instructions to use ibm-granite/granite-switch-4.1-8b-preview with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use ibm-granite/granite-switch-4.1-8b-preview with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="ibm-granite/granite-switch-4.1-8b-preview")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("ibm-granite/granite-switch-4.1-8b-preview", dtype="auto")

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps

vLLM

How to use ibm-granite/granite-switch-4.1-8b-preview with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "ibm-granite/granite-switch-4.1-8b-preview"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "ibm-granite/granite-switch-4.1-8b-preview",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/ibm-granite/granite-switch-4.1-8b-preview

SGLang

How to use ibm-granite/granite-switch-4.1-8b-preview 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 "ibm-granite/granite-switch-4.1-8b-preview" \
    --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": "ibm-granite/granite-switch-4.1-8b-preview",
		"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 "ibm-granite/granite-switch-4.1-8b-preview" \
        --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": "ibm-granite/granite-switch-4.1-8b-preview",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use ibm-granite/granite-switch-4.1-8b-preview with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/ibm-granite/granite-switch-4.1-8b-preview
```

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