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baidu/ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-PT

Baidu ERNIE 4.5 VL MoE vision-language models (28B-A3B, 424B-A47B) with heterogeneous text/vision experts

moe28B / 3B131,072 ctxvLLM 0.11.0+multimodal
Default configuration: 8× H200 · Tensor Parallel · BF16
vllm serve baidu/ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-PT \
  --trust-remote-code \
  --tensor-parallel-size 1 \
  --mm-encoder-tp-mode data

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Guide

Overview

ERNIE 4.5 VL is Baidu's multimodal MoE model with heterogeneous experts (separate text and vision experts). Because of the heterogeneous architecture, torch.compile and CUDA graphs are not supported.

  • baidu/ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-PT — 28B total / 3B active (1x80GB)
  • baidu/ERNIE-4.5-VL-424B-A47B-PT — 424B total / 47B active (8x140GB BF16, 8x80GB FP8+offload, or 16x80GB BF16)

Prerequisites

  • vLLM: support added to main branch recently; install latest
  • Hardware depends on variant

Install vLLM (CUDA)

uv venv --python 3.12 --seed
source .venv/bin/activate
uv pip install -U vllm --torch-backend auto

Install vLLM (AMD ROCm MI300X/MI325X/MI355X)

uv pip install vllm --extra-index-url https://wheels.vllm.ai/rocm/

Launch commands

28B on 1x80GB:

vllm serve baidu/ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-PT --trust-remote-code

424B BF16 on 8x140GB:

vllm serve baidu/ERNIE-4.5-VL-424B-A47B-PT \
  --trust-remote-code \
  --tensor-parallel-size 8

424B with FP8 + CPU offload on 8x80GB (testing only):

vllm serve baidu/ERNIE-4.5-VL-424B-A47B-PT \
  --trust-remote-code \
  --tensor-parallel-size 8 \
  --quantization fp8 \
  --cpu-offload-gb 50

28B on AMD MI300X+:

VLLM_ROCM_USE_AITER=1 SAFETENSORS_FAST_GPU=1 \
  vllm serve baidu/ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-PT \
  --tensor-parallel-size 4 \
  --gpu-memory-utilization 0.9 \
  --trust-remote-code

Benchmarking

vllm bench serve \
  --model baidu/ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-PT \
  --dataset-name random \
  --random-input-len 8000 --random-output-len 1000 \
  --request-rate 10 --num-prompts 16 --ignore-eos --trust-remote-code

References