@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ vLLM provides an HTTP server that implements OpenAI's [Completions](https://plat
You can start the server using Python, or using [Docker](deploying_with_docker.rst):
```bash
python -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server --modelmistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2--dtype auto --api-key token-abc123
python -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server --modelNousResearch/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct --dtype auto --api-key token-abc123
```
To call the server, you can use the official OpenAI Python client library, or any other HTTP client.
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@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ client = OpenAI(
)
completion=client.chat.completions.create(
model="mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2",
model="NousResearch/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct",
messages=[
{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}
]
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@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Or directly merge them into the JSON payload if you are using HTTP call directly
```python
completion=client.chat.completions.create(
model="mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2",
model="NousResearch/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct",
messages=[
{"role":"user","content":"Classify this sentiment: vLLM is wonderful!"}
],
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@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ In order for the language model to support chat protocol, vLLM requires the mode
a chat template in its tokenizer configuration. The chat template is a Jinja2 template that
specifies how are roles, messages, and other chat-specific tokens are encoded in the input.
An example chat template for `mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2` can be found [here](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2#instruction-format)
An example chat template for `NousResearch/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct` can be found [here](https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3?tab=readme-ov-file#instruction-tuned-models)
Some models do not provide a chat template even though they are instruction/chat fine-tuned. For those model,
you can manually specify their chat template in the `--chat-template` parameter with the file path to the chat