Instructions to use sparkarena/Minimax-M3-v0-NVFP4 with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use sparkarena/Minimax-M3-v0-NVFP4 with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="sparkarena/Minimax-M3-v0-NVFP4", 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 AutoProcessor, AutoModelForMultimodalLM

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("sparkarena/Minimax-M3-v0-NVFP4", trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("sparkarena/Minimax-M3-v0-NVFP4", 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?"}
        ]
    },
]
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 sparkarena/Minimax-M3-v0-NVFP4 with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "sparkarena/Minimax-M3-v0-NVFP4"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "sparkarena/Minimax-M3-v0-NVFP4",
		"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/sparkarena/Minimax-M3-v0-NVFP4

SGLang

How to use sparkarena/Minimax-M3-v0-NVFP4 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 "sparkarena/Minimax-M3-v0-NVFP4" \
    --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": "sparkarena/Minimax-M3-v0-NVFP4",
		"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 "sparkarena/Minimax-M3-v0-NVFP4" \
        --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": "sparkarena/Minimax-M3-v0-NVFP4",
		"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 sparkarena/Minimax-M3-v0-NVFP4 with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/sparkarena/Minimax-M3-v0-NVFP4
```

The First Published NVFP4 Quantization of MiniMax M3

NOTICE

This is an experimental quantization of MiniMax M3 to NVFP4 for use on DGX Spark. (Note: This quantization is not DGX Spark only.)

For DGX Spark Users: Run with sparkrun; part of Spark Arena

https://sparkrun.dev https://spark-arena.com

To run with sparkrun on 4x DGX Spark Nodes:

sparkrun run @experimental/minimax-m3-v0-nvfp4-4x

For RTX Pro 6000 Users (or DGX Spark Users who don't want to use sparkrun): You can run this using the custom sglang container:

docker pull scitrera/dgx-spark-sglang-mm:v0

(Container build is multi-arch so it can be used for x86 and ARM)

Reference settings can be derived from the sparkrun recipe: https://github.com/spark-arena/recipe-registry/blob/main/experimental-recipes/minimax-m3/minimax-m3-v0-nvfp4-4x.yaml

Happy Coding! Let's go!

MiniMax-M3 is a native multimodal model with 1M context. It has ~428B parameters and ~23B activated parameters.

Highlights:

Native Multimodality: M3 undergoes mixed-modality training from the very first step, enabling deeper semantic fusion across text, image, and video.
Context Scaling via Sparse Attention: M3 introduces MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA) to improve long context efficiency. M3 delivers 9× prefill and 15× decode speedups compared to M2 at 1M context, reducing per-token compute to 1/20.
Coding & Cowork Capability: M3 achieves frontier-level performance across long-horizon agentic benchmarks, excelling in both coding and cowork.

MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA)

M3 is powered by MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA), a high-performance sparse attention operator designed for million-token contexts. Compared with GQA, MSA dramatically reduces the attention compute and memory footprint while preserving model quality.

GQA vs MSA Efficiency Comparison

📄 Read the technical report: arXiv:2606.13392 · Hugging Face Papers

How to Use

M3 supports two reasoning modes:

thinking — for complex reasoning, agentic tasks, and long-horizon collaboration.
non-thinking — for latency-sensitive scenarios such as chat and code completion.

Local Deployment

Download the model:

hf download MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3 --local-dir MiniMax-M3

We recommend the following inference frameworks (listed alphabetically) to serve the model:

Inference Parameters

We recommend the following parameters for best performance: temperature=1.0, top_p=0.95, top_k=40.

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