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

Libraries

How to use unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B 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")

# pip install -U transformers accelerate
# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B", device_map="auto")

Inference
Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B 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"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B",
		"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
		"max_tokens": 512,
		"temperature": 0.5
	}'

Use Docker

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

SGLang

How to use unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B 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" \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B",
		"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
		"max_tokens": 512,
		"temperature": 0.5
	}'

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" \
        --host 0.0.0.0 \
        --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B",
		"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
		"max_tokens": 512,
		"temperature": 0.5
	}'

Unsloth Desktop
Docker Model Runner
How to use unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B
```
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 8b	▶️ Start on Colab	2.4x faster	58% less
Gemma 7b	▶️ Start on Colab	2.4x faster	58% less
Mistral 7b	▶️ Start on Colab	2.2x faster	62% less
Llama-2 7b	▶️ Start on Colab	2.2x faster	43% less
TinyLlama	▶️ Start on Colab	3.9x faster	74% less
CodeLlama 34b A100	▶️ Start on Colab	1.9x faster	27% less
Mistral 7b 1xT4	▶️ Start on Kaggle	5x 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.