Instructions to use deepseek-ai/deepseek-vl2-small with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use deepseek-ai/deepseek-vl2-small with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="deepseek-ai/deepseek-vl2-small")
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("deepseek-ai/deepseek-vl2-small", dtype="auto")

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use deepseek-ai/deepseek-vl2-small with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "deepseek-ai/deepseek-vl2-small"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "deepseek-ai/deepseek-vl2-small",
		"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/deepseek-ai/deepseek-vl2-small

SGLang

How to use deepseek-ai/deepseek-vl2-small 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 "deepseek-ai/deepseek-vl2-small" \
    --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": "deepseek-ai/deepseek-vl2-small",
		"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 "deepseek-ai/deepseek-vl2-small" \
        --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": "deepseek-ai/deepseek-vl2-small",
		"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 deepseek-ai/deepseek-vl2-small with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/deepseek-ai/deepseek-vl2-small
```

seems deepseek vl2 small and vl2 cannot cannot perform properly

by AIBoosted - opened Jun 12, 2025

Discussion

AIBoosted

Jun 12, 2025

same code:
vl_chat_processor = DeepseekVLV2Processor.from_pretrained(model_path)
tokenizer = vl_chat_processor.tokenizer
vl_gpt = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_path, trust_remote_code=True)
vl_gpt = vl_gpt.to(torch.bfloat16).cuda().eval()

conversation = [
{
"role": "<|User|>",
"content": f"\n{prompt}"
},
{"role": "<|Assistant|>", "content": ""}
]

pil_images = [image]  

prepare_inputs = vl_chat_processor(
    conversations=conversation,
    images=pil_images, 
    force_batchify=True,
    system_prompt=""
).to(vl_gpt.device)
print("prepare_inputs keys:", prepare_inputs.keys())

inputs_embeds = vl_gpt.prepare_inputs_embeds(**prepare_inputs)
print("inputs_embeds shape:", inputs_embeds.shape)
outputs = vl_gpt.language.generate(
    inputs_embeds=inputs_embeds,
    attention_mask=prepare_inputs.attention_mask,
    pad_token_id=tokenizer.eos_token_id,
    bos_token_id=tokenizer.bos_token_id,
    eos_token_id=tokenizer.eos_token_id,
    max_new_tokens=512,
    do_sample=False,
    use_cache=True
)

answer = tokenizer.decode(outputs[0].cpu().tolist(), skip_special_tokens=True)

both deepseek vl2 small and deepseek vl2 cannot give me a proper answer, however this code works properly using tiny model.
is that because the example code have some problem? outdated?
Thanks if anyone see the problem

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