How to use ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-base with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-base")
# Load model directly from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-base") model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-base")
How to use ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-base with vLLM:
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-base" # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-base", "prompt": "Once upon a time,", "max_tokens": 512, "temperature": 0.5 }'
docker model run hf.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-base
How to use ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-base with SGLang:
# Install SGLang from pip: pip install sglang # Start the SGLang server: python3 -m sglang.launch_server \ --model-path "ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-base" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-base", "prompt": "Once upon a time,", "max_tokens": 512, "temperature": 0.5 }'
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-4.1-8b-base" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-base", "prompt": "Once upon a time,", "max_tokens": 512, "temperature": 0.5 }'
How to use ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-base with Docker Model Runner:
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