Instructions to use McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen-8B with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen-8B with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen-8B")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen-8B")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen-8B", 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 McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen-8B with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen-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": "McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen-8B",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen-8B

SGLang

How to use McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen-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 "McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen-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": "McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen-8B",
		"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 "McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen-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": "McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen-8B",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen-8B with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen-8B
```

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@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ All AfriqueLLM models are evaluated on multiple multilingual benchmarks. FLORES
 This table averages only evaluated African languages outside the first 20-language CPT set: Ewe, Lingala, Ganda, Twi, and Wolof. Benchmark cells average the available languages for that benchmark; FLORES is English-to-target only (`eng->xxx`).
-| Model | AfriMGSM | AfriMMLU | AfriXNLI | Belebele | FLORES (eng->xxx) | INJONG | SIB-200 | Avg | Δ prev |
 |-------|----------|----------|----------|----------|-------------------|--------|---------|-----|--------|
 | [Qwen3.5-4B](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B-Base) | 8.30 | 32.35 | 34.30 | 36.90 | 22.20 | 33.27 | 58.96 | 32.33 | |
 | [AfriqueQwen3.5-4B](https://huggingface.co/McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen3.5-4B) | 7.52 | 31.17 | 33.56 | 35.82 | 26.28 | 33.10 | 56.66 | 32.02 | -0.31 (-1.0%) |

 This table averages only evaluated African languages outside the first 20-language CPT set: Ewe, Lingala, Ganda, Twi, and Wolof. Benchmark cells average the available languages for that benchmark; FLORES is English-to-target only (`eng->xxx`).
+| Model | AfriMGSM | AfriMMLU | AfriXNLI | Belebele | FLORES (eng->xxx) | INJONG | SIB-200 | Avg | Δ (Δ %) |
 |-------|----------|----------|----------|----------|-------------------|--------|---------|-----|--------|
 | [Qwen3.5-4B](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B-Base) | 8.30 | 32.35 | 34.30 | 36.90 | 22.20 | 33.27 | 58.96 | 32.33 | |
 | [AfriqueQwen3.5-4B](https://huggingface.co/McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen3.5-4B) | 7.52 | 31.17 | 33.56 | 35.82 | 26.28 | 33.10 | 56.66 | 32.02 | -0.31 (-1.0%) |