Image-Text-to-Text
Transformers
Safetensors
PyTorch
nemotron_labs_diffusion_vlm
feature-extraction
nvidia
multimodal
vlm
diffusion-language-model
conversational
custom_code
Instructions to use nvidia/Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-VLM-8B with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use nvidia/Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-VLM-8B with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="nvidia/Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-VLM-8B", trust_remote_code=True) 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("nvidia/Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-VLM-8B", trust_remote_code=True, dtype="auto") - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps
- vLLM
How to use nvidia/Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-VLM-8B with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "nvidia/Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-VLM-8B" # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "nvidia/Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-VLM-8B", "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/nvidia/Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-VLM-8B
- SGLang
How to use nvidia/Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-VLM-8B 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 "nvidia/Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-VLM-8B" \ --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": "nvidia/Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-VLM-8B", "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 "nvidia/Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-VLM-8B" \ --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": "nvidia/Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-VLM-8B", "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 nvidia/Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-VLM-8B with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/nvidia/Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-VLM-8B
| """ | |
| Custom tokenizer for Nemotron-Diffusion-Exp-Ministral-8B-Instruct (final-template). | |
| Extends PreTrainedTokenizerFast with a `process_messages` method that | |
| handles image token expansion and pixel value preprocessing, analogous | |
| to MistralCommonBackend.apply_chat_template(return_dict=True). | |
| Usage: | |
| tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo, trust_remote_code=True) | |
| result = tokenizer.process_messages(messages) | |
| # result["input_ids"] – (1, seq_len) with expanded image tokens | |
| # result["pixel_values"] – (N, 3, H, W) if images present | |
| # result["image_sizes"] – list of (H, W) tuples | |
| """ | |
| from typing import Any, Dict, List | |
| from transformers import PreTrainedTokenizerFast | |
| from .image_processing import process_messages as _process_messages | |
| class NemotronLabsDiffusionVLMTokenizerFast(PreTrainedTokenizerFast): | |
| """PreTrainedTokenizerFast + image-aware process_messages().""" | |
| def process_messages( | |
| self, | |
| messages: List[Dict[str, Any]], | |
| **kwargs, | |
| ) -> Dict[str, Any]: | |
| """ | |
| Process chat messages with optional images. | |
| Renders the chat template, expands image placeholders based on | |
| actual image dimensions, preprocesses pixel values, and tokenizes. | |
| Args: | |
| messages: OpenAI-style list of message dicts. | |
| **kwargs: forwarded to image_processing.process_messages | |
| (patch_size, spatial_merge_size, max_image_size, | |
| return_tensors, enable_thinking). | |
| Returns: | |
| dict with input_ids, and optionally pixel_values + image_sizes. | |
| """ | |
| return _process_messages(self, messages, **kwargs) | |