Instructions to use unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF", trust_remote_code=True)
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF", trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF", trust_remote_code=True)

llama-cpp-python

How to use unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF with llama-cpp-python:

# !pip install llama-cpp-python

from llama_cpp import Llama

llm = Llama.from_pretrained(
	repo_id="unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF",
	filename="DeepSeek-R1-BF16/DeepSeek-R1.BF16-00001-of-00030.gguf",
)

llm.create_chat_completion(
	messages = [
		{
			"role": "user",
			"content": "What is the capital of France?"
		}
	]
)

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps

llama.cpp

How to use unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF with llama.cpp:

Install from brew

brew install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
llama-server -hf unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF:Q4_K_M
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
llama-cli -hf unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Install from WinGet (Windows)

winget install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
llama-server -hf unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF:Q4_K_M
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
llama-cli -hf unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Use pre-built binary

# Download pre-built binary from:
# https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/releases
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
./llama-server -hf unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF:Q4_K_M
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
./llama-cli -hf unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Build from source code

git clone https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp.git
cd llama.cpp
cmake -B build
cmake --build build -j --target llama-server llama-cli
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
./build/bin/llama-server -hf unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF:Q4_K_M
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
./build/bin/llama-cli -hf unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF:Q4_K_M

LM Studio
Jan

vLLM

How to use unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF:Q4_K_M

SGLang

How to use unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF 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 "unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF" \
    --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": "unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF",
		"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 "unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF" \
        --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": "unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Ollama
How to use unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF with Ollama:
```
ollama run hf.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF:Q4_K_M
```

Unsloth Studio new

How to use unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF with Unsloth Studio:

Install Unsloth Studio (macOS, Linux, WSL)

curl -fsSL https://unsloth.ai/install.sh | sh
# Run unsloth studio
unsloth studio -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8888
# Then open http://localhost:8888 in your browser
# Search for unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF to start chatting

Install Unsloth Studio (Windows)

irm https://unsloth.ai/install.ps1 | iex
# Run unsloth studio
unsloth studio -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8888
# Then open http://localhost:8888 in your browser
# Search for unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF to start chatting

Using HuggingFace Spaces for Unsloth

# No setup required
# Open https://huggingface.co/spaces/unsloth/studio in your browser
# Search for unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF to start chatting

Docker Model Runner
How to use unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF:Q4_K_M
```

Lemonade

How to use unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF with Lemonade:

Pull the model

# Download Lemonade from https://lemonade-server.ai/
lemonade pull unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Run and chat with the model

lemonade run user.DeepSeek-R1-GGUF-Q4_K_M

List all available models

lemonade list

Running this model using vLLM Docker

by moficodes - opened Jan 28, 2025

Discussion

moficodes

Jan 28, 2025

The instruction in Use This Model in the corner from vLLM says to run this.

docker run --runtime nvidia --gpus all \
    --name my_vllm_container \
    -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
     --env "HUGGING_FACE_HUB_TOKEN=<secret>" \
    -p 8000:8000 \
    --ipc=host \
    vllm/vllm-openai:latest \
    --model unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF

How do I choose which quantization to run?

DannyDabbles

Jan 31, 2025

•

edited Jan 31, 2025

I posted my steps to (in theory) get this working here. However, it appears that @shimmyshimmer has removed the mention of using vLLM from the original blog post due to the current lack of practical support for DeepSeek GGUF files in vLLM.

Fwiw, I also didn't have luck running this model in oobabooga/text-generation-webui. Looks like that tool uses an older version of llama.cpp via llama-cpp-python which hasn't had a release since last year, meaning it's not up-to-date with the new llama.cpp changes to support DeepSeek models.

pengjiang80

Jan 31, 2025

You can run it with GPUStack (https://github.com/gpustack/gpustack), it contains llama-box which is based on llama.cpp and has up-to-date changes.

caoyizhen

Feb 13, 2025

•

edited Feb 13, 2025

code from https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/features/quantization/gguf.html

from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams

# In this script, we demonstrate how to pass input to the chat method:
conversation = [
   {
      "role": "system",
      "content": "You are a helpful assistant"
   },
   {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Hello"
   },
   {
      "role": "assistant",
      "content": "Hello! How can I assist you today?"
   },
   {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Write an essay about the importance of higher education.",
   },
]

# Create a sampling params object.
sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.8, top_p=0.95)

# Create an LLM.
llm = LLM(model="unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-GGUF",
         tokenizer="Qwen/Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct")
# Generate texts from the prompts. The output is a list of RequestOutput objects
# that contain the prompt, generated text, and other information.
outputs = llm.chat(conversation, sampling_params)

# Print the outputs.
for output in outputs:
   prompt = output.prompt
   generated_text = output.outputs[0].text
   print(f"Prompt: {prompt!r}, Generated text: {generated_text!r}")

modify model and tokenizer
raise a error:

OSERROR: It looks like the config file at 'xxxx/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-Q4_K_M.gguf' is not a valid JSON file.

Question

this gguf not supported by vllm?

shimmyshimmer

Unsloth AI org Feb 13, 2025

Follow the Github issue here:

Should be supported soon once it's pushed: https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues/12573

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