Instructions to use meta-llama/Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use meta-llama/Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="meta-llama/Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct")
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("meta-llama/Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct")
model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("meta-llama/Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct", 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 meta-llama/Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "meta-llama/Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-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": "meta-llama/Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct",
		"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/meta-llama/Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct

SGLang

How to use meta-llama/Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-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 "meta-llama/Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-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": "meta-llama/Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct",
		"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 "meta-llama/Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-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": "meta-llama/Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct",
		"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 meta-llama/Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct
```

How to create a GGUF file for LLaMA 3.2 Vision model (MllamaForConditionalGeneration)?

#123

by Sravanthi2018 - opened Sep 4, 2025

Discussion

Sravanthi2018

Sep 4, 2025

I am trying to convert the LLaMA 3.2 11B Vision Instruct model (MllamaForConditionalGeneration) into the GGUF format to use it with llama.cpp.

I have attempted to use the official convert_hf_to_gguf.py script from llama.cpp, but it currently throws an error saying that the model architecture is not supported. I also tried using convert_hf_to_gguf_update.py, but that script is intended only for tokenizer updates.

Given the recent addition of vision capabilities in LLaMA 3.2, I would greatly appreciate guidance or examples on how to properly convert this model into GGUF format, handling the vision projection layers and tokenizer correctly.

Specifically, I would appreciate help with:

Any updated or specialized conversion scripts that support MllamaForConditionalGeneration.

Recommended best practices or workarounds for export and conversion.

Any pointers to community or official tools that can handle vision model conversion successfully.

Thank you very much for your support!

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