Instructions to use ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-small with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-small with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-small")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-small")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-small", 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]:]))

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-small with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-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": "ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-small",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-small

SGLang

How to use ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-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 "ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-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": "ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-small",
		"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 "ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-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": "ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-small",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-small with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-small
```

Generates nonsense if running latest VLLM with Flashinfer 0.4

by stev236 - opened Oct 20, 2025

Discussion

stev236

Oct 20, 2025

Nice and super fast model. These hybrid models (Jamba, Granite 4 H, and Qwen3 Next) are clearly the future.

Unfortunately, the latest version of vllm generates nonsense with this model if using the flashinfer backend (0.4 up).

Switching the backend to Flash_attn solves the problem, but unfortunately that backend doesn't support KV-Cache FP8 quantization.

See https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues/26936

Anybody else noticed that?

ruben-bibsyst

Dec 8, 2025

Yeah, I have the same problem! It worked rather nice before the latest vLLM update from NVIDIA (https://catalog.ngc.nvidia.com/orgs/nvidia/containers/vllm?version=25.11-py3). I'm using the DGX Spark.

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