Instructions to use baidu/ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-PT with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use baidu/ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-PT with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="baidu/ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-PT", 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 AutoModelForImageTextToText
model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained("baidu/ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-PT", trust_remote_code=True, dtype="auto")

Inference
Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps

vLLM

How to use baidu/ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-PT with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "baidu/ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-PT"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "baidu/ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-PT",
		"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/baidu/ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-PT

SGLang

How to use baidu/ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-PT 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 "baidu/ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-PT" \
    --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": "baidu/ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-PT",
		"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 "baidu/ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-PT" \
        --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": "baidu/ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-PT",
		"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 baidu/ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-PT with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/baidu/ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-PT
```

MLX version support please

by Narutoouz - opened Jul 1, 2025

Discussion

Narutoouz

Jul 1, 2025

Please add support Apple silicon devices. This is the best model for apple silicon pro macbook pros. MOE models are awesome and apple's unified memory architecture seems like a perfect match!

Narutoouz changed discussion title from MLX version support? to MLX version support please Jul 7, 2025

hehao0908

Jul 8, 2025

Yes, I need MLX version.

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