Image-Text-to-Text
Transformers
Safetensors
mage_vl
multimodal
vision-language-model
mage-vl
video-understanding
streaming
conversational
custom_code
Instructions to use microsoft/Mage-VL with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use microsoft/Mage-VL with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="microsoft/Mage-VL", 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("microsoft/Mage-VL", trust_remote_code=True, device_map="auto") - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- vLLM
How to use microsoft/Mage-VL with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "microsoft/Mage-VL" # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "microsoft/Mage-VL", "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/microsoft/Mage-VL
- SGLang
How to use microsoft/Mage-VL 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 "microsoft/Mage-VL" \ --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": "microsoft/Mage-VL", "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 "microsoft/Mage-VL" \ --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": "microsoft/Mage-VL", "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 microsoft/Mage-VL with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/microsoft/Mage-VL
| #!/usr/bin/env python3 | |
| # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- | |
| """Patch packing and canvas saving utilities.""" | |
| from pathlib import Path | |
| from typing import Tuple, List, Dict, Any, Optional | |
| import numpy as np | |
| import cv2 | |
| # Pillow for reliable JPEG writing | |
| try: | |
| from PIL import Image # type: ignore | |
| HAS_PIL = True | |
| except Exception: | |
| Image = None | |
| HAS_PIL = False | |
| def iter_blocks_in_raster(hb: int, wb: int): | |
| """Iterate 2x2 blocks in raster order of blocks. | |
| hb/wb are patch-grid sizes (even). | |
| Yields (bh, bw) in block-grid. | |
| """ | |
| for bh in range(hb // 2): | |
| for bw in range(wb // 2): | |
| yield bh, bw | |
| def block_to_4_patches(bh: int, bw: int) -> List[Tuple[int, int]]: | |
| """Convert block coord to 4 patch coords in the required contiguous order. | |
| Returns [(h0, w0), (h0, w0+1), (h0+1, w0), (h0+1, w0+1)] | |
| """ | |
| h0 = 2 * int(bh) | |
| w0 = 2 * int(bw) | |
| return [(h0, w0), (h0, w0 + 1), (h0 + 1, w0), (h0 + 1, w0 + 1)] | |
| def extract_patch_rgb(frame_rgb: np.ndarray, ph: int, pw: int, patch: int = 16) -> np.ndarray: | |
| """Extract a single patch from RGB frame.""" | |
| p = int(patch) | |
| y0 = int(ph) * p | |
| x0 = int(pw) * p | |
| return frame_rgb[y0:y0 + p, x0:x0 + p, :] | |
| def pack_patches_to_canvases( | |
| patches: np.ndarray, | |
| hb: int, | |
| wb: int, | |
| patch: int, | |
| placement_order: str = "block_raster", | |
| ) -> Tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray, np.ndarray]: | |
| """Pack patches into one or more full canvases. | |
| Packing order is raster over 2x2 blocks, and within each block the 4 patches | |
| are placed in the order: (0,0),(0,1),(1,0),(1,1). This guarantees that | |
| `image.reshape(-1)` will have consecutive 4 tokens corresponding to a 2x2 block. | |
| Args: | |
| patches: uint8 array (N, patch, patch, 3) where N is multiple of hb*wb | |
| hb: Number of patches in height direction | |
| wb: Number of patches in width direction | |
| patch: Patch size in pixels | |
| placement_order: "block_raster" (default) or "wh_raster" | |
| Returns: | |
| images_rgb: uint8 (num_images, H, W, 3) | |
| patch_position: int32 (N, 3) [img_idx, patch_h, patch_w] aligned 1-1 with patches | |
| img_ptr: int32 (num_images+1,) prefix-sum boundaries (each image has hb*wb patches) | |
| """ | |
| hb = int(hb) | |
| wb = int(wb) | |
| p = int(patch) | |
| S_full = hb * wb | |
| placement_order = str(placement_order).lower().strip() | |
| if patches.size == 0: | |
| images = np.zeros((0, hb * p, wb * p, 3), dtype=np.uint8) | |
| patch_pos = np.zeros((0, 3), dtype=np.int32) | |
| img_ptr = np.zeros((1,), dtype=np.int32) | |
| return images, patch_pos, img_ptr | |
| assert patches.ndim == 4 and patches.shape[1] == p and patches.shape[2] == p and patches.shape[3] == 3 | |
| assert patches.shape[0] % S_full == 0, f"patches must be multiple of S_full={S_full}, got {patches.shape[0]}" | |
| num_images = int(patches.shape[0] // S_full) | |
| H = hb * p | |
| W = wb * p | |
| images = np.zeros((num_images, H, W, 3), dtype=np.uint8) | |
| patch_pos = np.zeros((patches.shape[0], 3), dtype=np.int32) | |
| idx = 0 | |
| for img_i in range(num_images): | |
| if placement_order == "wh_raster": | |
| # Raster order by patch position (h, w) | |
| for ph in range(hb): | |
| for pw in range(wb): | |
| y0 = int(ph) * p | |
| x0 = int(pw) * p | |
| images[img_i, y0:y0 + p, x0:x0 + p, :] = patches[idx] | |
| patch_pos[idx, :] = (int(img_i), int(ph), int(pw)) | |
| idx += 1 | |
| else: | |
| # Default: block raster order (2x2 blocks) | |
| for bh in range(hb // 2): | |
| for bw in range(wb // 2): | |
| coords = block_to_4_patches(bh, bw) | |
| for (ph, pw) in coords: | |
| y0 = int(ph) * p | |
| x0 = int(pw) * p | |
| images[img_i, y0:y0 + p, x0:x0 + p, :] = patches[idx] | |
| patch_pos[idx, :] = (int(img_i), int(ph), int(pw)) | |
| idx += 1 | |
| img_ptr = (np.arange(0, num_images + 1, dtype=np.int32) * int(S_full)).astype(np.int32) | |
| return images, patch_pos, img_ptr | |
| def save_canvases_as_jpg(images_rgb: np.ndarray, out_dir: str, quality: int = 95) -> List[str]: | |
| """Save (num_images, H, W, 3) RGB uint8 canvases into JPEG files. | |
| Returns list of written filenames (basenames). | |
| """ | |
| out: List[str] = [] | |
| out_p = Path(out_dir) | |
| out_p.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) | |
| if images_rgb is None or images_rgb.size == 0: | |
| return out | |
| q = int(max(1, min(100, int(quality)))) | |
| for i in range(int(images_rgb.shape[0])): | |
| fn = f"canvas_{i:03d}.jpg" | |
| fp = out_p / fn | |
| arr = images_rgb[i] | |
| # Prefer Pillow for JPEG reliability; fallback to OpenCV. | |
| if HAS_PIL and Image is not None: | |
| Image.fromarray(arr).save(str(fp), format="JPEG", quality=q, subsampling=0, optimize=True) | |
| else: | |
| bgr = arr[:, :, ::-1] | |
| ok = cv2.imwrite(str(fp), bgr, [int(cv2.IMWRITE_JPEG_QUALITY), q]) | |
| if not ok: | |
| raise RuntimeError("Failed to write JPEG. Please install pillow: pip install pillow") | |
| out.append(fn) | |
| return out | |