Instructions to use moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking", trust_remote_code=True)
messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"},
            {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"}
        ]
    },
]
pipe(text=messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoModel
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking", trust_remote_code=True, device_map="auto")

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking

SGLang

How to use moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking 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 "moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking" \
    --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": "moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

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 "moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking" \
        --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": "moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking
```

zhouzaida commited on Apr 13, 2025

Commit

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1 Parent(s): 50260a0

fix GenerationMixin ImportError in transformers main branch (#6)

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- fix GenerationMixin ImportError in transformers main branch (496bcc3aef55fd057ec943a122be78e0f6c423f3)

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config.json +2 -1
modeling_kimi_vl.py +2 -4

config.json CHANGED Viewed

@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@
     "merge_kernel_size": [
       2,
       2
-    ]
   },
   "text_config": {
     "vocab_size": 163840,

     "merge_kernel_size": [
       2,
       2
+    ],
+    "torch_dtype": "bfloat16"
   },
   "text_config": {
     "vocab_size": 163840,

modeling_kimi_vl.py CHANGED Viewed

@@ -55,10 +55,8 @@ import torch.distributed as dist
 from torch.nn import CrossEntropyLoss
 from transformers.activations import GELUActivation, ACT2FN, PytorchGELUTanh
 from transformers.cache_utils import Cache, DynamicCache
-from transformers.modeling_utils import (
-    PreTrainedModel,
-    GenerationMixin,
-)
 from transformers.models.llava.modeling_llava import LlavaCausalLMOutputWithPast
 from transformers.modeling_attn_mask_utils import _prepare_4d_causal_attention_mask
 from transformers.modeling_outputs import (

 from torch.nn import CrossEntropyLoss
 from transformers.activations import GELUActivation, ACT2FN, PytorchGELUTanh
 from transformers.cache_utils import Cache, DynamicCache
+from transformers.modeling_utils import PreTrainedModel
+from transformers.generation.utils import GenerationMixin
 from transformers.models.llava.modeling_llava import LlavaCausalLMOutputWithPast
 from transformers.modeling_attn_mask_utils import _prepare_4d_causal_attention_mask
 from transformers.modeling_outputs import (