Instructions to use meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct", device_map="auto")
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
HuggingChat
Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
AMD Developer Cloud
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-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/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct

SGLang

How to use meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-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/Llama-3.1-8B-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/Llama-3.1-8B-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/Llama-3.1-8B-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/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
```

Access Request Rejected

#381

by starxsw111 - opened Jun 26

Discussion

starxsw111

Jun 26

Hello Meta Llama team,

I recently submitted an access request for the meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct repository, but it appears to have been rejected.

I am a Technical Support Engineer at Beijing Western Cloud Data Technology Co., Ltd. (an AWS partner in China). My intended use of the model is to assist our enterprise customers with deploying and validating LLM inference workloads on AWS cloud infrastructure (Amazon EKS with NVIDIA GPU instances). This is strictly for internal technical evaluation and customer enablement purposes — not for redistribution or commercial product development.

I am not sure why my request was denied. It may be due to incomplete profile information or affiliation details on my Hugging Face account. I have since updated my profile with my full name, company affiliation, and job title.

Could you please reconsider my access request, or advise if there is anything else I need to provide?

Thank you for your time and assistance.

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