Instructions to use unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForMultimodalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct")
model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct")
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 unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-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": "unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct

SGLang

How to use unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-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 "unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-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": "unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-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 "unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-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": "unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Unsloth Studio

How to use unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct with Unsloth Studio:

Install Unsloth Studio (macOS, Linux, WSL)

curl -fsSL https://unsloth.ai/install.sh | sh
# Run unsloth studio
unsloth studio -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8888
# Then open http://localhost:8888 in your browser
# Search for unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct to start chatting

Install Unsloth Studio (Windows)

irm https://unsloth.ai/install.ps1 | iex
# Run unsloth studio
unsloth studio -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8888
# Then open http://localhost:8888 in your browser
# Search for unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct to start chatting

Using HuggingFace Spaces for Unsloth

# No setup required
# Open https://huggingface.co/spaces/unsloth/studio in your browser
# Search for unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct to start chatting

Load model with FastModel

pip install unsloth
from unsloth import FastModel
model, tokenizer = FastModel.from_pretrained(
    model_name="unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct",
    max_seq_length=2048,
)

Docker Model Runner
How to use unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
```
Browse Quantizations to use this model in llama.cpp, Ollama, LM Studio, or any compatible app.

Finetune Llama 3.1, Gemma 2, Mistral 2-5x faster with 70% less memory via Unsloth!

We have a free Google Colab Tesla T4 notebook for Llama 3.1 (8B) here: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Ys44kVvmeZtnICzWz0xgpRnrIOjZAuxp?usp=sharing

✨ Finetune for Free

All notebooks are beginner friendly! Add your dataset, click "Run All", and you'll get a 2x faster finetuned model which can be exported to GGUF, vLLM or uploaded to Hugging Face.

Unsloth supports	Free Notebooks	Performance	Memory use
Llama-3.2 (3B)	▶️ Start on Colab	2.4x faster	58% less
Llama-3.2 (11B vision)	▶️ Start on Colab	2x faster	60% less
Llama-3.1 (8B)	▶️ Start on Colab	2.4x faster	58% less
Qwen2 VL (7B)	▶️ Start on Colab	1.8x faster	60% less
Qwen2.5 (7B)	▶️ Start on Colab	2x faster	60% less
Phi-3.5 (mini)	▶️ Start on Colab	2x faster	50% less
Gemma 2 (9B)	▶️ Start on Colab	2.4x faster	58% less
Mistral (7B)	▶️ Start on Colab	2.2x faster	62% less
DPO - Zephyr	▶️ Start on Colab	1.9x faster	19% less

This conversational notebook is useful for ShareGPT ChatML / Vicuna templates.
This text completion notebook is for raw text. This DPO notebook replicates Zephyr.
* Kaggle has 2x T4s, but we use 1. Due to overhead, 1x T4 is 5x faster.