# SmolLM3
SmolLM3 is a fully open, compact language model designed for efficient deployment while maintaining strong performance. It uses a Transformer decoder architecture with Grouped Query Attention (GQA) to reduce the kv cache, and no RoPE, enabling improved performance on long-context tasks. It is trained using a multi-stage training approach on high-quality public datasets across web, code, and math domains. The model is multilingual and supports very large context lengths. The instruct variant is optimized for reasoning and tool use.
> [!TIP]
> Click on the SmolLM3 models in the right sidebar for more examples of how to apply SmolLM3 to different language tasks.
The example below demonstrates how to generate text with [`Pipeline`], [`AutoModel`], and from the command line using the instruction-tuned models.
```python
import torch
from transformers import pipeline
pipe = pipeline(
task="text-generation",
model="HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B",
torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
device_map=0
)
messages = [
{"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant."},
{"role": "user", "content": "Tell me about yourself."},
]
outputs = pipe(messages, max_new_tokens=256, do_sample=True, temperature=0.7, top_k=50, top_p=0.95)
print(outputs[0]["generated_text"][-1]['content'])
```
```python
import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
"HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B",
torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
device_map="auto",
attn_implementation="sdpa"
)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B")
prompt = "Give me a short introduction to large language models."
messages = [
{"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant."},
{"role": "user", "content": prompt}
]
text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
messages,
tokenize=False,
add_generation_prompt=True
)
model_inputs = tokenizer([text], return_tensors="pt").to("cuda")
generated_ids = model.generate(
model_inputs.input_ids,
cache_implementation="static",
max_new_tokens=512,
do_sample=True,
temperature=0.7,
top_k=50,
top_p=0.95
)
generated_ids = [
output_ids[len(input_ids):] for input_ids, output_ids in zip(model_inputs.input_ids, generated_ids)
]
response = tokenizer.batch_decode(generated_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)[0]
print(response)
```
```bash
# pip install -U flash-attn --no-build-isolation
transformers chat HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B --torch_dtype auto --attn_implementation flash_attention_2 --device 0
```
Quantization reduces the memory burden of large models by representing the weights in a lower precision. Refer to the [Quantization](../quantization/overview) overview for more available quantization backends.
The example below uses [bitsandbytes](../quantization/bitsandbytes) to quantize the weights to 4-bits.
```python
# pip install -U flash-attn --no-build-isolation
import torch
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM, BitsAndBytesConfig
quantization_config = BitsAndBytesConfig(
load_in_4bit=True,
bnb_4bit_compute_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
bnb_4bit_quant_type="nf4",
bnb_4bit_use_double_quant=True,
)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
"HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B",
torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
device_map="auto",
quantization_config=quantization_config,
attn_implementation="flash_attention_2"
)
inputs = tokenizer("Gravity is the force", return_tensors="pt").to("cuda")
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=100)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True))
```
## Notes
- Ensure your Transformers library version is up-to-date. SmolLM3 requires Transformers>=4.53.0 for full support.
## SmolLM3Config
[[autodoc]] SmolLM3Config
## SmolLM3Model
[[autodoc]] SmolLM3Model
- forward
## SmolLM3ForCausalLM
[[autodoc]] SmolLM3ForCausalLM
- forward
## SmolLM3ForSequenceClassification
[[autodoc]] SmolLM3ForSequenceClassification
- forward
## SmolLM3ForTokenClassification
[[autodoc]] SmolLM3ForTokenClassification
- forward
## SmolLM3ForQuestionAnswering
[[autodoc]] SmolLM3ForQuestionAnswering
- forward
