Instructions to use RedHatAI/GLM-5.3-Flash-NVFP4 with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use RedHatAI/GLM-5.3-Flash-NVFP4 with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="RedHatAI/GLM-5.3-Flash-NVFP4")
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 AutoProcessor, AutoModelForMultimodalLM

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("RedHatAI/GLM-5.3-Flash-NVFP4")
model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("RedHatAI/GLM-5.3-Flash-NVFP4", device_map="auto")
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?"}
        ]
    },
]
inputs = processor.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(processor.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:]))

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use RedHatAI/GLM-5.3-Flash-NVFP4 with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "RedHatAI/GLM-5.3-Flash-NVFP4"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "RedHatAI/GLM-5.3-Flash-NVFP4",
		"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/RedHatAI/GLM-5.3-Flash-NVFP4

SGLang

How to use RedHatAI/GLM-5.3-Flash-NVFP4 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 "RedHatAI/GLM-5.3-Flash-NVFP4" \
    --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": "RedHatAI/GLM-5.3-Flash-NVFP4",
		"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 "RedHatAI/GLM-5.3-Flash-NVFP4" \
        --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": "RedHatAI/GLM-5.3-Flash-NVFP4",
		"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 RedHatAI/GLM-5.3-Flash-NVFP4 with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/RedHatAI/GLM-5.3-Flash-NVFP4
```

MTP layer 45 weights are missing from the checkpoint

by colabbear - opened 3 days ago

Discussion

colabbear

3 days ago

Hi,

I noticed that the MTP / NextN weights appear to be missing from the RedHatAI/GLM-5.3-Flash-NVFP4 checkpoint.

The original zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash configuration indicates that the model has one NextN prediction layer:

"num_hidden_layers": 45,
"num_nextn_predict_layers": 1

Therefore, the MTP layer is expected to be stored as layer 45.

However, after checking model.safetensors.index.json in this repository, I could not find any tensors corresponding to layer 45 (model.layers.45.* / equivalent names).

When attempting to run the model with vLLM MTP speculative decoding enabled, vLLM fails during model loading with:

ValueError: MTP speculative decoding layer 45 weights missing from checkpoint.

For example, this happens when using an MTP speculative decoding configuration such as:

--speculative-config '{"method":"mtp","num_speculative_tokens":4}'

Without MTP speculative decoding enabled, the model can proceed without trying to load the missing MTP layer.

Could you clarify whether:

the MTP / NextN layer was intentionally excluded during NVFP4 quantization/conversion, or
the layer was unintentionally dropped during the conversion/save process?

If MTP is intentionally unsupported by this checkpoint, it may also be helpful to mention this limitation in the model card, since the inherited model configuration still indicates num_nextn_predict_layers: 1.

Thanks!

dsikka

Red Hat AI org 3 days ago

Thank you for flagging! Working on an update

dsikka

Red Hat AI org 3 days ago

@colabbear Thank you for calling this out. The checkpoint has been updated.

dsikka changed discussion status to closed 3 days ago

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