Instructions to use Miladasghari/light-coder with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use Miladasghari/light-coder with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="Miladasghari/light-coder")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Miladasghari/light-coder")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Miladasghari/light-coder", device_map="auto")
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]:]))

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use Miladasghari/light-coder with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "Miladasghari/light-coder"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "Miladasghari/light-coder",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/Miladasghari/light-coder

SGLang

How to use Miladasghari/light-coder 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 "Miladasghari/light-coder" \
    --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": "Miladasghari/light-coder",
		"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 "Miladasghari/light-coder" \
        --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": "Miladasghari/light-coder",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use Miladasghari/light-coder with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/Miladasghari/light-coder
```

light-coder

light-coder is an ultra-lightweight, standalone instruction-tuned coding model created by fine-tuning Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct on ~122k programming instruction-response pairs and merging the LoRA weights directly into the base checkpoint.

At under 1 GB in size, it requires minimal VRAM, executes quickly on consumer GPUs and CPUs, and integrates out-of-the-box with tools like vLLM, Ollama, and standard Hugging Face pipelines.

Model Details

Developed by: Milad Asghari
Model Name: light-coder
Base Model: Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct
Model Type: Causal Language Model (Full Merged Weights)
Primary Domain: Code generation, refactoring, and programming instruction-following
Language(s): English, Multiple Programming Languages
License: Apache-2.0
Size: 988 MB (safetensors)

How to Get Started

Because the weights are merged, you do not need the peft library for inference:

import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model_id = "Miladasghari/light-coder"

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    model_id,
    dtype=torch.float16,
    device_map="auto"
)

messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Write a Python function to check if a string is a palindrome."}
]

prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True)
inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)

outputs = model.generate(
    **inputs,
    max_new_tokens=256,
    temperature=0.3,
    top_p=0.9,
    repetition_penalty=1.05
)

response = tokenizer.decode(outputs[0][inputs.input_ids.shape[1]:], skip_special_tokens=True)
print(response)

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