Instructions to use meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# pip install -U transformers accelerate
# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct", 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=256)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:]))

Inference
Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-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-3.2-3B-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-3.2-3B-Instruct",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

SGLang

How to use meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-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-3.2-3B-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-3.2-3B-Instruct",
		"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 "meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-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-3.2-3B-Instruct",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct
```

Historical Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct X-Ray comparison — correction

#302

by tetracta - opened Sep 3

Discussion

tetracta

Sep 3

We ran a before/after internal scan of meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B → meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct with a fixed probe protocol (identical prompts for both models, controlled perturbations injected at seven depths, 168 matched probes per model) and thought the result was worth putting here rather than only on our own page.

Where the difference sits. 80% of the base→instruct difference mass falls in 18 of 29 stations (a station is the output of one block; 28 layers → 29 stations). The densest five-station band is 13–17, carrying 1.72× what a uniform spread would put there and 1.49× what a flat null would. The first observable difference is station 4 — that is our probe grid's detection floor (the earliest probe is injected at layer 2), not something the tuning earned.

This one surprised us. That band is mid-network. In the same run Qwen2.5, Falcon3, OLMo-2 and Mistral all concentrated in their last five stations, so a single pair would have told us "instruction tuning is a last-layers story" — and it is not, at least not for this family.

Knowledge side. Factual recall barely moved: 0 of the 20 probe facts broke and 4 were repaired. What moved is behaviour on entities the model does not know — fake-name echo avoided went 13 → 20 of 20 (McNemar 7 improved / 0 regressed, exact two-sided p = 0.016), and a three-class judge reads refusals 2→3, echo 7→0, fabricated answers 11→17. Trajectory AUROC 0.740 → 1.000.

Data. Report: https://tetracta-model-xray-sample-reports.static.hf.space/reports/karsilastirma-llama-3-2-3b-llama-3-2-3b-instruct.html
Signed provenance/deletion attestation (its report_sha256 pins that exact file): https://www.tetracta.ai/llm_tomografi/attest/57fccb3b5c894e1ab428a3494591b04e
Machine-readable per-station profiles for this and 21 other interventions across six families: https://huggingface.co/datasets/tetracta/model-xray-gallery

If this does not match how the instruction tuning was actually done, we would genuinely like to know. The instrument is young, family differences like this are exactly what we cannot yet explain, and a correction from the people who trained the model is worth more to us than another scan.

tetracta

Sep 6

Correction — 6 September 2026

We withdraw the Model X-Ray location, spread, concentration and derived-severity conclusions in the opening post. Any legacy knowledge-separation, portrait-visualization, lesion-response or simulated-quantization conclusion linked from it is also withdrawn and must not be used as current evidence.

We are publishing no replacement figures. Validation remains pending. Correction record: https://www.tetracta.ai/model-xray/correction/

— Tetracta

tetracta

Sep 22

Following our correction of 6 September above: the opening post and title of 3 September are left for the record, but their numbers are withdrawn — the band/N80 fields, the knowledge AUROC and paired counts, and the "detection floor" sentence are not current evidence, and the report and attestation links no longer resolve. The dated correction record is https://www.tetracta.ai/model-xray/correction/ ; the current scope statement is https://www.tetracta.ai/model-xray/scope/ . This repository is not on the eligible list of the free beta (sixteen exact Apache-2.0 revisions at or below the 7B class, listed on the scope page); we will not post further measurements here unless that changes. — Tetracta

tetracta changed discussion title from Where instruction tuning landed in this pair — a propagation scan (N80 18/29, band 13–17) to Historical Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct X-Ray comparison — correction Sep 22

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