Instructions to use openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4_5 with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4_5 with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4_5", 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 AutoModel
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4_5", trust_remote_code=True, device_map="auto")

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4_5 with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4_5"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4_5",
		"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/openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4_5

SGLang

How to use openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4_5 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 "openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4_5" \
    --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": "openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4_5",
		"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 "openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4_5" \
        --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": "openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4_5",
		"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 openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4_5 with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4_5
```

wangchongyi commited on Aug 29, 2025

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@@ -260,6 +260,35 @@ answer = model.chat(
 print(answer)
 ```
 ## License
 #### Model License

 print(answer)
 ```
+#### Chat with multiple images
+<details>
+<summary> Click to show Python code running MiniCPM-V 4.5 with multiple images input. </summary>
+```python
+import torch
+from PIL import Image
+from transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer
+model = AutoModel.from_pretrained('openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4_5', trust_remote_code=True,
+    attn_implementation='sdpa', torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16) # sdpa or flash_attention_2
+model = model.eval().cuda()
+tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4_5', trust_remote_code=True)
+image1 = Image.open('image1.jpg').convert('RGB')
+image2 = Image.open('image2.jpg').convert('RGB')
+question = 'Compare image 1 and image 2, tell me about the differences between image 1 and image 2.'
+msgs = [{'role': 'user', 'content': [image1, image2, question]}]
+answer = model.chat(
+    image=None,
+    msgs=msgs,
+    tokenizer=tokenizer
+)
+print(answer)
+```
+</details>
 ## License
 #### Model License