Instructions to use meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-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 meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-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": "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct

SGLang

How to use meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-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 "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-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": "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-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 "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-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": "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
```

Request to Reconsider Model Access

#270

by Djctionary - opened Jun 9

Discussion

Djctionary

Jun 9

Hello Meta team,

I am a student reproducing NVIDIA’s open-source Kimodo project for educational research. Kimodo requires Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct for its text encoder.

Could you please reconsider my rejected access request? I will comply with the license and will not redistribute the model.

Hugging Face username: Djctionary
University: University of Pennsylvania

Thank you!

Double1212

27 days ago

Hello Meta Llama team,

My access request for meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct was rejected.
I would like to request a review or have my request reset so I can resubmit with corrected information.

Use case:
I want to use the model locally as the text encoder dependency for NVIDIA Kimodo motion generation research/demo usage.
No redistribution of weights, no model hosting, and no commercial resale.

Hugging Face username: Double1212
Country/region: China
Organization: Xingyao Original (Shenzhen) Cultural Digital Technology Co., Ltd.
Room 2602, Wenbo Building, No. 2005 Lianhua Road, Jinghua Community, Lianhua Street, Futian District, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
Email: zhengzechuan2001@gmail.com

Please let me know if any information is missing.
Thank you.

zhuzhixiang

16 days ago

Hello Meta team,

I am a learner reproducing NVIDIA’s open-source Kimodo project for AI Animation research. Kimodo requires Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct for its text encoder.
Could you please reconsider my rejected access request? I will comply with the license and will not redistribute the model.
Hugging Face username: zhuzhixiang
For personal study only
Please Help me Thank you!

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