Instructions to use unsloth/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct-bnb-4bit with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use unsloth/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct-bnb-4bit with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="unsloth/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct-bnb-4bit")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("unsloth/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct-bnb-4bit")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("unsloth/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct-bnb-4bit")
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 unsloth/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct-bnb-4bit with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "unsloth/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct-bnb-4bit"
# 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/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct-bnb-4bit",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/unsloth/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct-bnb-4bit

SGLang

How to use unsloth/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct-bnb-4bit 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/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct-bnb-4bit" \
    --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/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct-bnb-4bit",
		"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/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct-bnb-4bit" \
        --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/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct-bnb-4bit",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Unsloth Studio new

How to use unsloth/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct-bnb-4bit 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/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct-bnb-4bit 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/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct-bnb-4bit to start chatting

Using HuggingFace Spaces for Unsloth

# No setup required
# Open https://huggingface.co/spaces/unsloth/studio in your browser
# Search for unsloth/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct-bnb-4bit to start chatting

Load model with FastModel

pip install unsloth
from unsloth import FastModel
model, tokenizer = FastModel.from_pretrained(
    model_name="unsloth/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct-bnb-4bit",
    max_seq_length=2048,
)

Docker Model Runner
How to use unsloth/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct-bnb-4bit with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/unsloth/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct-bnb-4bit
```

Finetune SmolLM2, Llama 3.2, Gemma 2, Mistral 2-5x faster with 70% less memory via Unsloth!

We have a free Google Colab Tesla T4 notebook for Llama 3.2 (3B) here: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Ys44kVvmeZtnICzWz0xgpRnrIOjZAuxp?usp=sharing

unsloth/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct 4bit bitsandbytes pre-quantized

For more details on the model, please go to Hugging Face's original model card

✨ 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	2.4x faster	58% less
Llama-3.1 (8B)	▶️ Start on Colab	2.4x faster	58% 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.

Special Thanks

A huge thank you to the Hugging Face team for creating and releasing these models.

Model Summary

SmolLM2 is a family of compact language models available in three size: 135M, 360M, and 1.7B parameters. They are capable of solving a wide range of tasks while being lightweight enough to run on-device.

The 1.7B variant demonstrates significant advances over its predecessor SmolLM1-1.7B, particularly in instruction following, knowledge, reasoning, and mathematics. It was trained on 11 trillion tokens using a diverse dataset combination: FineWeb-Edu, DCLM, The Stack, along with new mathematics and coding datasets that we curated and will release soon. We developed the instruct version through supervised fine-tuning (SFT) using a combination of public datasets and our own curated datasets. We then applied Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) using UltraFeedback.

The instruct model additionally supports tasks such as text rewriting, summarization and function calling thanks to datasets developed by Argilla such as Synth-APIGen-v0.1.