Instructions to use Weidows/WeMM-Embedding-9B-FP8 with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use Weidows/WeMM-Embedding-9B-FP8 with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="Weidows/WeMM-Embedding-9B-FP8", 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("Weidows/WeMM-Embedding-9B-FP8", trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("Weidows/WeMM-Embedding-9B-FP8", trust_remote_code=True, device_map="auto")
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 Weidows/WeMM-Embedding-9B-FP8 with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "Weidows/WeMM-Embedding-9B-FP8"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "Weidows/WeMM-Embedding-9B-FP8",
		"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/Weidows/WeMM-Embedding-9B-FP8

SGLang

How to use Weidows/WeMM-Embedding-9B-FP8 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 "Weidows/WeMM-Embedding-9B-FP8" \
    --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": "Weidows/WeMM-Embedding-9B-FP8",
		"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 "Weidows/WeMM-Embedding-9B-FP8" \
        --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": "Weidows/WeMM-Embedding-9B-FP8",
		"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 Weidows/WeMM-Embedding-9B-FP8 with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/Weidows/WeMM-Embedding-9B-FP8
```

WeMM-Embedding-9B (FP8)

FP8 (E4M3) quantization of tencent/WeMM-Embedding-9B, produced with the same per-tensor round-to-nearest procedure used for the 2B variant.

Method: per-tensor FP8 (E4M3, scale = absmax/448), applied to all nn.Linear layers — including the vision tower at 8-bit (safe). 4-bit vision-tower quantization is known to degrade multimodal retrieval, so it is intentionally avoided.
Size: 18.8 GB (BF16) → 9.8 GB (FP8), ~2× smaller, near-lossless on retrieval benchmarks.
Format: model.fp8.safetensors + fp8_scales.json (dequant at load: w = w_fp8 * scale). Loads with transformers / sentence-transformers using the same API as the BF16 base.

Why FP8 (not 4-bit)

The 9B model's multimodal quality is sensitive to vision-tower precision. FP8 (8-bit) keeps the vision tower well above the degradation threshold observed with 4-bit, while still halving weight memory — ideal for serving on FP8-capable GPUs (Ada / Hopper, e.g. RTX 4090, H100).

Usage (transformers / sentence-transformers)

from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
model = SentenceTransformer("Weidows/WeMM-Embedding-9B-FP8", trust_remote_code=True)
emb = model.encode("Represent the meaning of this sentence.")

Usage (vLLM / SGLang)

FP8 is natively supported on Ada/Hopper GPUs. Serve with vLLM:

vllm serve Weidows/WeMM-Embedding-9B-FP8 --task embed

Evaluation

Quantized and evaluated with the identical per-tensor FP8 (E4M3) pipeline used for the 2B variant, on the same engine (transformers) as the BF16 baseline to isolate pure quantization loss.

Metric	BF16	FP8	Δ
STS-B (text) — Spearman ρ	0.8225	0.8239	−0.0014
COCO Image→Text R@1 / R@5 / R@10	0.1968 / 0.9002 / 0.9840	0.1978 / 0.9012 / 0.9850	~−0.001
COCO Text→Image R@1 / R@5 / R@10	0.9331 / 0.9960 / 0.9980	0.9311 / 0.9960 / 0.9980	~+0.002

COCO split: val2017, 200 images × 5 captions = 1001 captions (hard pool — random baseline ≈0.5% R@1). Every metric moves <0.002 absolute; FP8 rounding is benign at the 9B scale. Weight size: 18.8 GB → 9.8 GB (~2× compression), vision tower kept at 8-bit to avoid the 4-bit degradation path.

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