Instructions to use NyxKrage/moondream3-preview-hf with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use NyxKrage/moondream3-preview-hf with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="NyxKrage/moondream3-preview-hf", 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 Moondream3ForConditonalGeneration model = Moondream3ForConditonalGeneration.from_pretrained("NyxKrage/moondream3-preview-hf", trust_remote_code=True, device_map="auto") - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- vLLM
How to use NyxKrage/moondream3-preview-hf with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "NyxKrage/moondream3-preview-hf" # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "NyxKrage/moondream3-preview-hf", "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/NyxKrage/moondream3-preview-hf
- SGLang
How to use NyxKrage/moondream3-preview-hf 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 "NyxKrage/moondream3-preview-hf" \ --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": "NyxKrage/moondream3-preview-hf", "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 "NyxKrage/moondream3-preview-hf" \ --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": "NyxKrage/moondream3-preview-hf", "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 NyxKrage/moondream3-preview-hf with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/NyxKrage/moondream3-preview-hf
| # coding=utf-8 | |
| # Copyright 2025 The HuggingFace Inc. team. All rights reserved. | |
| # | |
| # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); | |
| # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. | |
| # You may obtain a copy of the License at | |
| # | |
| # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 | |
| # | |
| # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software | |
| # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, | |
| # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. | |
| # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and | |
| # limitations under the License. | |
| from typing import Optional, List | |
| from transformers.configuration_utils import PretrainedConfig | |
| from transformers.modeling_rope_utils import rope_config_validation | |
| class Moondream3TextConfig(PretrainedConfig): | |
| r""" | |
| This is the configuration class to store the configuration of a [`Moondream3TextModel`]. It is used to instantiate a | |
| Moondream3 model according to the specified arguments, defining the model architecture. | |
| Configuration objects inherit from [`PreTrainedConfig`] and can be used to control the model outputs. Read the | |
| documentation from [`PreTrainedConfig`] for more information. | |
| Args: | |
| vocab_size (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 51200): | |
| Vocabulary size of the Moondream3 model. | |
| hidden_size (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 2048): | |
| Dimension of the hidden representations. | |
| intermediate_size (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 8192): | |
| Dimension of the MLP representations. | |
| num_hidden_layers (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 24): | |
| Number of hidden layers in the Transformer encoder. | |
| num_attention_heads (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 32): | |
| Number of attention heads for each attention layer in the Transformer encoder. | |
| num_key_value_heads (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 32): | |
| This is the number of key_value heads that should be used to implement Grouped Query Attention. | |
| max_position_embeddings (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 4096): | |
| The maximum sequence length that this model might ever be used with. | |
| num_experts (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 64): | |
| Number of experts for MoE layers. | |
| num_experts_per_tok (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 8): | |
| Number of selected experts per token. | |
| moe_intermediate_size (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 1024): | |
| Intermediate size of the routed expert. | |
| moe_start_layer (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 4): | |
| The layer index where MoE layers start. | |
| hidden_act (`str` or `function`, *optional*, defaults to `"silu"`): | |
| The non-linear activation function. | |
| initializer_range (`float`, *optional*, defaults to 0.02): | |
| The standard deviation of the truncated_normal_initializer. | |
| rms_norm_eps (`float`, *optional*, defaults to 1e-5): | |
| The epsilon used by the rms normalization layers. | |
| use_cache (`bool`, *optional*, defaults to `True`): | |
| Whether or not the model should return the last key/values attentions. | |
| tie_word_embeddings (`bool`, *optional*, defaults to `False`): | |
| Whether the model's input and output word embeddings should be tied. | |
| attention_bias (`bool`, *optional*, defaults to `False`): | |
| Whether to use a bias in the query, key, value and output projection layers. | |
| head_dim (`int`, *optional*): | |
| The dimension of the head. If not specified, will default to `hidden_size // num_attention_heads`. | |
| """ | |
| model_type = "moondream3_text" | |
| base_config_key = "text_config" | |
| keys_to_ignore_at_inference = ["past_key_values"] | |
| def __init__( | |
| self, | |
| vocab_size: int = 51200, | |
| hidden_size: int = 2048, | |
| intermediate_size: int = 8192, | |
| num_hidden_layers: int = 24, | |
| num_attention_heads: int = 32, | |
| num_key_value_heads: int = 32, | |
| max_position_embeddings: int = 4096, | |
| num_experts: int = 64, | |
| num_experts_per_tok: int = 8, | |
| moe_intermediate_size: int = 1024, | |
| moe_start_layer: int = 4, | |
| bos_id: int = 0, | |
| hidden_act: str = "silu", | |
| initializer_range: float = 0.02, | |
| rms_norm_eps: float = 1e-5, | |
| use_cache: bool = False, | |
| tie_word_embeddings: bool = False, | |
| attention_bias: bool = True, | |
| rope_parameters: Optional[dict] = None, | |
| head_dim: Optional[int] = None, | |
| **kwargs, | |
| ): | |
| self.vocab_size = vocab_size | |
| self.max_position_embeddings = max_position_embeddings | |
| self.hidden_size = hidden_size | |
| self.intermediate_size = intermediate_size | |
| self.num_hidden_layers = num_hidden_layers | |
| self.num_attention_heads = num_attention_heads | |
| self.num_key_value_heads = num_key_value_heads | |
| self.hidden_act = hidden_act | |
| self.initializer_range = initializer_range | |
| self.rms_norm_eps = rms_norm_eps | |
| self.use_cache = use_cache | |
| self.attention_bias = attention_bias | |
| self.head_dim = head_dim or hidden_size // num_attention_heads | |
| self.bos_id = bos_id | |
| # MoE parameters (merged from TextMoeConfig) | |
| self.num_experts = num_experts | |
| self.num_experts_per_tok = num_experts_per_tok | |
| self.moe_intermediate_size = moe_intermediate_size | |
| self.moe_start_layer = moe_start_layer | |
| # Try to set `rope_scaling` if available, otherwise use `rope_parameters` | |
| rope_scaling = kwargs.pop("rope_scaling", None) | |
| self.rope_parameters = rope_scaling or rope_parameters | |
| # Validate the correctness of rotary position embeddings parameters | |
| rope_theta = kwargs.get("rope_theta", 1500000.0) | |
| rope_config_validation(self) | |
| # HF compatibility attributes | |
| self.output_router_logits = False | |
| self.output_attentions = False | |
| self.output_hidden_states = False | |
| self.attention_dropout = 0.0 | |
| super().__init__(tie_word_embeddings=tie_word_embeddings, **kwargs) | |
| class Moondream3VisionConfig(PretrainedConfig): | |
| r""" | |
| This is the configuration class to store the configuration of the Moondream3 vision encoder. | |
| Args: | |
| hidden_size (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 1152): | |
| Dimension of the encoder's hidden states. | |
| intermediate_size (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 4304): | |
| Dimension of the encoder's MLP representations. | |
| num_hidden_layers (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 27): | |
| Number of hidden layers in the vision encoder. | |
| num_attention_heads (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 16): | |
| Number of attention heads in the vision encoder. | |
| patch_size (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 14): | |
| The size of each patch in the vision encoder. | |
| in_channels (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 3): | |
| Number of input channels. | |
| proj_out_dim (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 2048): | |
| Output dimension of the projection layer. | |
| crop_size (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 378): | |
| Size of image crops. | |
| max_crops (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 12): | |
| Maximum number of crops. | |
| overlap_margin (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 4): | |
| Overlap margin for crops. | |
| proj_inner_dim (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 8192): | |
| Inner dimension of the projection MLP. | |
| hidden_act (`str`, *optional*, defaults to `"gelu_pytorch_tanh"`): | |
| The non-linear activation function. | |
| initializer_range (`float`, *optional*, defaults to 0.02): | |
| The standard deviation of the truncated_normal_initializer. | |
| """ | |
| model_type = "moondream3_vision" | |
| base_config_key = "vision_config" | |
| def __init__( | |
| self, | |
| hidden_size: int = 1152, | |
| intermediate_size: int = 4304, | |
| num_hidden_layers: int = 27, | |
| num_attention_heads: int = 16, | |
| patch_size: int = 14, | |
| in_channels: int = 3, | |
| proj_out_dim: int = 2048, | |
| crop_size: int = 378, | |
| max_crops: int = 12, | |
| overlap_margin: int = 4, | |
| proj_inner_dim: int = 8192, | |
| prefix_len: int = 730, | |
| hidden_act: str = "gelu_pytorch_tanh", | |
| initializer_range: float = 0.02, | |
| attention_bias: bool = True, | |
| **kwargs, | |
| ): | |
| self.hidden_size = hidden_size | |
| self.intermediate_size = intermediate_size | |
| self.num_hidden_layers = num_hidden_layers | |
| self.num_attention_heads = num_attention_heads | |
| self.patch_size = patch_size | |
| self.in_channels = in_channels | |
| self.proj_out_dim = proj_out_dim | |
| self.crop_size = crop_size | |
| self.max_crops = max_crops | |
| self.prefix_len = prefix_len | |
| self.overlap_margin = overlap_margin | |
| self.proj_inner_dim = proj_inner_dim | |
| self.hidden_act = hidden_act | |
| self.initializer_range = initializer_range | |
| self.attention_dropout = 0.0 | |
| self.attention_bias = attention_bias | |
| super().__init__(**kwargs) | |
| class Moondream3RegionConfig(PretrainedConfig): | |
| r""" | |
| This is the configuration class to store the configuration of the Moondream3 region encoder for object detection and grounding. | |
| Args: | |
| hidden_size (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 2048): | |
| Dimension of the hidden representations for region features. | |
| coord_feat_dim (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 256): | |
| Dimension of coordinate feature embeddings. | |
| coord_out_dim (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 1024): | |
| Output dimension for coordinate features. | |
| size_feat_dim (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 512): | |
| Dimension of size feature embeddings. | |
| size_out_dim (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 2048): | |
| Output dimension for size features. | |
| """ | |
| model_type = "moondream3_region" | |
| base_config_key = "region_config" | |
| def __init__( | |
| self, | |
| hidden_size: int = 2048, | |
| coord_feat_dim: int = 256, | |
| coord_out_dim: int = 1024, | |
| size_feat_dim: int = 512, | |
| size_out_dim: int = 2048, | |
| **kwargs, | |
| ): | |
| super().__init__(**kwargs) | |
| self.hidden_size = hidden_size | |
| self.coord_feat_dim = coord_feat_dim | |
| self.coord_out_dim = coord_out_dim | |
| self.size_feat_dim = size_feat_dim | |
| self.size_out_dim = size_out_dim | |
| class Moondream3Config(PretrainedConfig): | |
| r""" | |
| This is the configuration class to store the configuration of a [`Moondream3Model`]. | |
| Args: | |
| text_config (`Union[PreTrainedConfig, dict]`, *optional*, defaults to `Moondream3TextConfig`): | |
| The config object or dictionary of the text backbone. | |
| vision_config (`Union[PreTrainedConfig, dict]`, *optional*, defaults to `Moondream3VisionConfig`): | |
| The config object or dictionary of the vision backbone. | |
| region_config (`Union[PreTrainedConfig, dict]`, *optional*, defaults to `Moondream3RegionConfig`): | |
| The config object or dictionary of the region backbone for object detection and grounding. | |
| image_token_id (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 151655): | |
| The image token index to encode the image prompt. | |
| tie_word_embeddings (`bool`, *optional*, defaults to `False`): | |
| Whether to tie the word embeddings. | |
| """ | |
| model_type = "moondream3" | |
| sub_configs = { | |
| "vision_config": Moondream3VisionConfig, | |
| "text_config": Moondream3TextConfig, | |
| "region_config": Moondream3RegionConfig, | |
| } | |
| keys_to_ignore_at_inference = ["past_key_values"] | |
| def __init__( | |
| self, | |
| text_config=None, | |
| vision_config=None, | |
| region_config=None, | |
| bos_token_id=0, | |
| tie_word_embeddings: bool = False, | |
| **kwargs, | |
| ): | |
| if isinstance(vision_config, dict): | |
| self.vision_config = self.sub_configs["vision_config"](**vision_config) | |
| elif vision_config is None: | |
| self.vision_config = self.sub_configs["vision_config"]() | |
| if isinstance(text_config, dict): | |
| self.text_config = self.sub_configs["text_config"](**text_config) | |
| elif text_config is None: | |
| self.text_config = self.sub_configs["text_config"]() | |
| if isinstance(region_config, dict): | |
| self.region_config = self.sub_configs["region_config"](**region_config) | |
| elif region_config is None: | |
| self.region_config = self.sub_configs["region_config"]() | |
| super().__init__(**kwargs, tie_word_embeddings=tie_word_embeddings) | |
| __all__ = ["Moondream3Config", "Moondream3TextConfig", "Moondream3VisionConfig", "Moondream3RegionConfig"] |