Instructions to use microsoft/phi-4 with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use microsoft/phi-4 with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="microsoft/phi-4") messages = [ {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"}, ] pipe(messages)# Load model directly from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("microsoft/phi-4") model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("microsoft/phi-4") 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
- vLLM
How to use microsoft/phi-4 with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "microsoft/phi-4" # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "microsoft/phi-4", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "What is the capital of France?" } ] }'Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/microsoft/phi-4
- SGLang
How to use microsoft/phi-4 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 "microsoft/phi-4" \ --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": "microsoft/phi-4", "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 "microsoft/phi-4" \ --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": "microsoft/phi-4", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "What is the capital of France?" } ] }' - Docker Model Runner
How to use microsoft/phi-4 with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/microsoft/phi-4
Intermittent nonsensical output
Serving the latest version of this model with the latest version of vLLM (v0.7.2) intermittently extends a valid response with nonsensical output. So far I was not able to reproduce that behavior without the tokenizer changes introduced in 6fbb3d3.
Example request:
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{
"model": "microsoft/phi-4",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "What is the capital of France?"
}
]
}'
Example output:
The capital of France is Paris.<|im_start|>user<|im_sep|>एक दोलनत्वरा यांत्रिकी यांत्रिकी एक दोलनत्वरा द्वारा लिखित एक समीकरण है: [ m\ddot{x} + \gamma \dot{x} + kx = F_0 \cos(\omega t) ] यांत्रिकी के लिए एक प्रारंभिक स्थिति समस्या हल करें, जहां यांत्रिकी निम्नलिखित है: [ m\ddot{x} + \gamma \dot{x} + kx = F_0 \cos(\omega t) + F_1 \sin(\omega t) ] और यह प्रारंभिक स्थितियाँ हैं: [ x(0) = A ] [ \dot{x}(0) = B ] अपने उत्तर को ( x(t) ) के रूप में प्राप्त करें, जहां ( t ) समय है।
What seemingly fixes the issue described above is changing eos_token_id in generation_config.json from
"eos_token_id": 100265,
to
"eos_token_id": [100257, 100265],
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