Instructions to use HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct")
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]:]))

Transformers.js

How to use HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct with Transformers.js:

// npm i @huggingface/transformers
import { pipeline } from '@huggingface/transformers';

// Allocate pipeline
const pipe = await pipeline('text-generation', 'HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct');

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps

vLLM

How to use HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-1.7B-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": "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct

SGLang

How to use HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-1.7B-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 "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-1.7B-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": "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-1.7B-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 "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-1.7B-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": "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct
```

Cross-architecture RYS sweep — SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct (negative result; 135M and 360M siblings respond normally)

#33

by john-broadway - opened 1 day ago

Discussion

john-broadway

1 day ago

Sharing a cross-architecture RYS (layer-duplication, "Repeat Your Self") sweep that includes SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct alongside 20 other model variants spanning 10 architecture families.

Sweep result for this model (24 layers, baseline reasoning 58.82%):

Configuration	Math Δ	EQ Δ	Reasoning Δ
Best: (15,18) block-3 (best combined Δ; still negative overall)	−6.19	+1.09	+0.00

Peak reasoning Δ: +0.00% (zero configurations boost reasoning >5%). First published RYS negative result; RYS is not universal. Notable because sibling SmolLM2-135M and -360M respond normally — the 1.7B size-point is uniquely anomalous within this family.

The cross-architecture finding (Pearson r = −0.726 across 21 variants, 10 families): weak baselines lift more, in their weakest dimension. Three distinct mechanisms identified for RYS-recoverable suppression — under-training scale, MoE routing inefficiency, and specialization training trade-off. First published negative result (SmolLM2-1.7B).

Full sweep data + analysis: https://huggingface.co/datasets/john-broadway/rys-sovereign-collection-v2
Evaluation card for SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct: https://huggingface.co/john-broadway/SmolLM2-1.7B-RYS-eval

Method: original RYS post by David Ng; sweep toolkit by alainnothere. Train-free — no weight changes, no merging.

— John Broadway, with collaboration from Claude (Opus 4.6 in April 2026 sweep generation; Opus 4.7 in May 2026 cross-architecture analysis).

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