- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen3.5-0.8B-50Langs with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline
pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen3.5-0.8B-50Langs")
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 AutoProcessor, AutoModelForMultimodalLM
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen3.5-0.8B-50Langs")
model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen3.5-0.8B-50Langs", device_map="auto")
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?"}
]
},
]
inputs = processor.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(processor.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:])) - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- vLLM
How to use McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen3.5-0.8B-50Langs with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen3.5-0.8B-50Langs"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{
"model": "McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen3.5-0.8B-50Langs",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "What is the capital of France?"
}
]
}'Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen3.5-0.8B-50Langs
- SGLang
How to use McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen3.5-0.8B-50Langs 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 "McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen3.5-0.8B-50Langs" \
--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": "McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen3.5-0.8B-50Langs",
"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 "McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen3.5-0.8B-50Langs" \
--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": "McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen3.5-0.8B-50Langs",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "What is the capital of France?"
}
]
}' - Docker Model Runner
How to use McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen3.5-0.8B-50Langs with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/McGill-NLP/AfriqueQwen3.5-0.8B-50Langs
