*This model was released on 2025-09-02 and added to Hugging Face Transformers on 2025-08-28.*
# Apertus
## Overview
[Apertus](https://www.swiss-ai.org) is a family of large language models from the Swiss AI Initiative.
> [!TIP]
> Coming soon
The example below demonstrates how to generate text with [`Pipeline`] or the [`AutoModel`], and from the command line.
```py
import torch
from transformers import pipeline
pipeline = pipeline(
task="text-generation",
model="swiss-ai/Apertus-8B",
dtype=torch.bfloat16,
device=0
)
pipeline("Plants create energy through a process known as")
```
```py
import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
"swiss-ai/Apertus-8B",
)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
"swiss-ai/Apertus-8B",
dtype=torch.bfloat16,
device_map="auto",
attn_implementation="sdpa"
)
input_ids = tokenizer("Plants create energy through a process known as", return_tensors="pt").to("cuda")
output = model.generate(**input_ids)
print(tokenizer.decode(output[0], skip_special_tokens=True))
```
```bash
echo -e "Plants create energy through a process known as" | transformers run --task text-generation --model swiss-ai/Apertus-8B --device 0
```
## ApertusConfig
[[autodoc]] ApertusConfig
## ApertusModel
[[autodoc]] ApertusModel
- forward
## ApertusForCausalLM
[[autodoc]] ApertusForCausalLM
- forward
## ApertusForTokenClassification
[[autodoc]] ApertusForTokenClassification
- forward
