Instructions to use FrontiersMind/Nandi-Mini-150M-Instruct with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use FrontiersMind/Nandi-Mini-150M-Instruct with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="FrontiersMind/Nandi-Mini-150M-Instruct", trust_remote_code=True)
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("FrontiersMind/Nandi-Mini-150M-Instruct", trust_remote_code=True, dtype="auto")

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps

vLLM

How to use FrontiersMind/Nandi-Mini-150M-Instruct with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "FrontiersMind/Nandi-Mini-150M-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": "FrontiersMind/Nandi-Mini-150M-Instruct",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/FrontiersMind/Nandi-Mini-150M-Instruct

SGLang

How to use FrontiersMind/Nandi-Mini-150M-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 "FrontiersMind/Nandi-Mini-150M-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": "FrontiersMind/Nandi-Mini-150M-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 "FrontiersMind/Nandi-Mini-150M-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": "FrontiersMind/Nandi-Mini-150M-Instruct",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use FrontiersMind/Nandi-Mini-150M-Instruct with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/FrontiersMind/Nandi-Mini-150M-Instruct
```

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license: apache-2.0
language:
  - en
  - hi
  - mr
  - ta
  - te
  - kn
  - ml
  - bn
  - pa
  - gu
  - or
pipeline_tag: text-generation
library_name: transformers
base_model:
  - FrontiersMind/Nandi-Mini-150M

Nandi-Mini-150M-Instruct

Introduction

Nandi-Mini-150M-Instruct is a compact, efficient multilingual language model designed for strong performance in resource-constrained environments. It is pre-trained from scratch on 525 billion tokens and further enhanced through instruction tuning and Direct Preference Optimization (DPO). The model supports English and 10 Indic languages.

Nandi-Mini-150M-Instruct focuses on maximizing performance per parameter through architectural efficiency rather than scale. It is optimized for edge devices, on-prem deployments, and low-latency applications, making it ideal for resource-constrained environments. Nandi-Mini-150M-Instruct brings the following key features:

Strong multilingual capability across English and Indic languages
Efficient design enabling high performance at small scale (150M parameters)
Reduced memory footprint using factorized embeddings
Better parameter efficiency through layer sharing

📝 Upcoming Releases & Roadmap

We’re just getting started with the Nandi series 🚀

Nandi-Mini-150M-Tool-Calling (Specialized-Model) — Coming Soon this week
Nandi-Mini-500M (Base + Instruct) — Pre-Training Going On
Nandi-Mini-1B (Base + Instruct) — Pre-Training Going On

📢 Blogs & technical deep-dives coming soon, where we’ll share:

Architecture decisions and design trade-offs
Training insights and dataset composition
Benchmarks and real-world applications

Stay tuned!

🌍 Supported Languages

The model is trained on English and a diverse set of Indic languages, including:

Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Odia

🚀 Usage

!pip install transformers=='5.4.0'

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
import torch

model_name = "FrontiersMind/Nandi-Mini-150M-Instruct"

device = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name, trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    model_name,
    trust_remote_code=True,
    dtype=torch.bfloat16
).to(device).eval()

prompt = "Explain newton's second law of motion"

messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": prompt}
]

prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, tokenize=False)
inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)

generated_ids = model.generate(
    **inputs,
    max_new_tokens=500,
    do_sample=True,
    temperature=0.3,
    top_p=0.90,
    top_k=20,
    repetition_penalty=1.1,
)

generated_ids = [
    output_ids[len(input_ids):] for input_ids, output_ids in zip(inputs.input_ids, generated_ids)
]

response = tokenizer.batch_decode(generated_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)[0]

print(response)

📬 Feedback & Suggestions

We’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and ideas!

Discord: https://discord.gg/ZGdjCdRt
Email: support@frontiersmind.ai
Official Website https://www.frontiersmind.ai/
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