Instructions to use QCRI/Fanar-1-9B-Instruct with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use QCRI/Fanar-1-9B-Instruct with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="QCRI/Fanar-1-9B-Instruct")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("QCRI/Fanar-1-9B-Instruct")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("QCRI/Fanar-1-9B-Instruct")
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]:]))

Inference
Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use QCRI/Fanar-1-9B-Instruct with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "QCRI/Fanar-1-9B-Instruct"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "QCRI/Fanar-1-9B-Instruct",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/QCRI/Fanar-1-9B-Instruct

SGLang

How to use QCRI/Fanar-1-9B-Instruct 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 "QCRI/Fanar-1-9B-Instruct" \
    --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": "QCRI/Fanar-1-9B-Instruct",
		"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 "QCRI/Fanar-1-9B-Instruct" \
        --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": "QCRI/Fanar-1-9B-Instruct",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use QCRI/Fanar-1-9B-Instruct with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/QCRI/Fanar-1-9B-Instruct
```

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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ library_name: transformers
 **Fanar-1-9B-Instruct** is a powerful Arabic-English LLM developed by [Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI)](https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/qcri) and [Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU)](https://www.hbku.edu.qa/). It is the instruction-tuned version of [Fanar-1-9B](). Fanar continually pretrains the `google/gemma-2-9b` model on 1T Arabic and English tokens. Fanar pays particular attention to the richness of the Arabic language by supporting a diverse set of Arabic dialects including Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), Levantine, and Egyptian. Fanar, through meticulous curation of the pretraining and instruction-tuning data, is aligned with Arab cultural values.
-We have published a comprehensive [report](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.13944) with all the details regarding FANAR.
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 **Fanar-1-9B-Instruct** is a powerful Arabic-English LLM developed by [Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI)](https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/qcri) and [Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU)](https://www.hbku.edu.qa/). It is the instruction-tuned version of [Fanar-1-9B](). Fanar continually pretrains the `google/gemma-2-9b` model on 1T Arabic and English tokens. Fanar pays particular attention to the richness of the Arabic language by supporting a diverse set of Arabic dialects including Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), Levantine, and Egyptian. Fanar, through meticulous curation of the pretraining and instruction-tuning data, is aligned with Arab cultural values.
+We have published a comprehensive [report](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.13944) with all the details regarding FANAR. We also provide an API to the model (request access [here](https://api.fanar.qa/request/en)).
 ---