Instructions to use meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct", device_map="auto")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
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]:]))

Inference
Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct

SGLang

How to use meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct 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 "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct" \
    --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": "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct",
		"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 "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct" \
        --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": "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
```

Request for Manual Review of Rejected Access (NVIDIA Kimodo)

#290

by rimenmic - opened Aug 21

Discussion

rimenmic

Aug 21

Hello Meta Llama Team,

My access request for meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct was recently rejected. I would like to respectfully request a manual reconsideration, or for the request to be reset so that I can submit any additional information that may be required.

I am evaluating NVIDIA's open-source Kimodo motion-generation system for use in a professional game-development workflow.

Kimodo requires Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct as the base model for its LLM2Vec text encoder. In this setup, Llama is used only as a frozen text encoder to convert natural-language motion descriptions into embeddings consumed by Kimodo's separate motion-generation model.

To clarify the intended use:

I am not using Llama as a chatbot or public-facing language model.
I am not fine-tuning or modifying the Llama model.
I will not redistribute or share the model weights.
I will not expose the model through a public API or service.
The model will run locally on my development workstation.
Its sole purpose in this evaluation is to provide the text embeddings required by NVIDIA Kimodo.

I intend to comply fully with the Meta Llama 3 Community License and Acceptable Use Policy.

If my original request was rejected because the intended use was unclear or some information was incomplete, I would appreciate the opportunity to clarify it or submit a corrected request.

Hugging Face username: rimenmic

Thank you for reviewing my request.

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