{
  "hf_id": "internlm/Intern-S1",
  "meta": {
    "title": "Intern-S1",
    "slug": "intern-s1",
    "provider": "InternLM",
    "description": "Intern-S1 vision-language model from Shanghai AI Lab with BF16/FP8 variants and thinking/non-thinking modes",
    "date_added": "2025-08-19",
    "date_updated": "2026-04-17",
    "tasks": [
      "multimodal"
    ],
    "related_recipes": [
      "OpenGVLab/InternVL3_5-8B"
    ],
    "hardware": {
      "mi300x": "verified",
      "mi325x": "verified",
      "mi355x": "verified"
    }
  },
  "recommended_command": {
    "hardware": "h200",
    "strategy": "single_node_tp",
    "variant": "default",
    "node_count": 1,
    "deploy_type": "single_node",
    "env": {},
    "docker_image": "vllm/vllm-openai:latest",
    "command": "vllm serve internlm/Intern-S1 \\\n  --trust-remote-code \\\n  --tensor-parallel-size 8 \\\n  --enable-auto-tool-choice \\\n  --tool-call-parser internlm \\\n  --reasoning-parser deepseek_r1 \\\n  --mm-encoder-tp-mode data",
    "argv": [
      "vllm",
      "serve",
      "internlm/Intern-S1",
      "--trust-remote-code",
      "--tensor-parallel-size",
      "8",
      "--enable-auto-tool-choice",
      "--tool-call-parser",
      "internlm",
      "--reasoning-parser",
      "deepseek_r1",
      "--mm-encoder-tp-mode",
      "data"
    ],
    "docker_command": "docker run --gpus all \\\n  --privileged --ipc=host -p 8000:8000 \\\n  -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \\\n  vllm/vllm-openai:latest internlm/Intern-S1 \\\n  --trust-remote-code \\\n  --tensor-parallel-size 8 \\\n  --enable-auto-tool-choice \\\n  --tool-call-parser internlm \\\n  --reasoning-parser deepseek_r1 \\\n  --mm-encoder-tp-mode data",
    "docker_argv": [
      "docker",
      "run",
      "--gpus",
      "all",
      "--privileged",
      "--ipc=host",
      "-p",
      "8000:8000",
      "-v",
      "~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface",
      "vllm/vllm-openai:latest",
      "internlm/Intern-S1",
      "--trust-remote-code",
      "--tensor-parallel-size",
      "8",
      "--enable-auto-tool-choice",
      "--tool-call-parser",
      "internlm",
      "--reasoning-parser",
      "deepseek_r1",
      "--mm-encoder-tp-mode",
      "data"
    ],
    "strategy_spec": {
      "name": "single_node_tp",
      "deploy_type": "single_node",
      "display_name": "Tensor Parallel",
      "short_label": "TP",
      "orientation": "latency",
      "description": "Single-node tensor parallel. Splits the model across all local GPUs. TP size is set to the GPU count at deploy time. The simplest multi-GPU strategy — works for all model architectures.\n",
      "hardware_match": {
        "min_gpus": 1,
        "max_gpus": 8,
        "multi_node": false
      },
      "vllm_args": [],
      "parallel_flag": "--tensor-parallel-size"
    },
    "hardware_profile": {
      "brand": "NVIDIA",
      "generation": "hopper",
      "compute_arch": "sm90",
      "display_name": "H200",
      "description": "NVIDIA H200 SXM 141 GB HBM3e · 8-GPU HGX node",
      "gpu_count": 8,
      "vram_gb": 1128,
      "multi_node": false
    },
    "alternatives": {
      "multi_node_tp": "/internlm/Intern-S1/strategies/multi_node_tp.json",
      "multi_node_tp_pp": "/internlm/Intern-S1/strategies/multi_node_tp_pp.json",
      "multi_node_tep": "/internlm/Intern-S1/strategies/multi_node_tep.json",
      "multi_node_dep": "/internlm/Intern-S1/strategies/multi_node_dep.json",
      "kv_store_centralized_mooncake": "/internlm/Intern-S1/strategies/kv_store_centralized_mooncake.json",
      "kv_store_distributed_mooncake": "/internlm/Intern-S1/strategies/kv_store_distributed_mooncake.json"
    },
    "by_hardware": {
      "h200": "/internlm/Intern-S1/hw/h200.json",
      "h100": "/internlm/Intern-S1/hw/h100.json",
      "b200": "/internlm/Intern-S1/hw/b200.json",
      "gb200": "/internlm/Intern-S1/hw/gb200.json",
      "b300": "/internlm/Intern-S1/hw/b300.json",
      "gb300": "/internlm/Intern-S1/hw/gb300.json",
      "mi300x": "/internlm/Intern-S1/hw/mi300x.json",
      "mi325x": "/internlm/Intern-S1/hw/mi325x.json",
      "mi350x": "/internlm/Intern-S1/hw/mi350x.json",
      "mi355x": "/internlm/Intern-S1/hw/mi355x.json"
    }
  },
  "model": {
    "model_id": "internlm/Intern-S1",
    "min_vllm_version": "0.10.2",
    "architecture": "moe",
    "parameter_count": "241B",
    "active_parameters": "28B",
    "context_length": 65536,
    "base_args": [
      "--trust-remote-code"
    ],
    "base_env": {},
    "install": {
      "pip": {
        "command": "uv venv\nsource .venv/bin/activate\nuv pip install -U vllm --torch-backend auto"
      },
      "docker": {
        "command": "docker pull vllm/vllm-openai:latest"
      }
    }
  },
  "features": {
    "tool_calling": {
      "description": "InternLM tool-call parser with automatic tool choice",
      "args": [
        "--enable-auto-tool-choice",
        "--tool-call-parser",
        "internlm"
      ]
    },
    "reasoning": {
      "description": "DeepSeek-R1 reasoning parser extracts <think>...</think>",
      "args": [
        "--reasoning-parser",
        "deepseek_r1"
      ]
    },
    "text_only": {
      "description": "Skip loading the vision encoder for text-only workloads — frees VRAM for KV cache. Mutually exclusive with encoder_parallel.",
      "args": [
        "--language-model-only"
      ]
    },
    "encoder_parallel": {
      "description": "Run the vision encoder in data-parallel mode — avoids TP comm overhead on the small encoder. Mutually exclusive with text_only.",
      "args": [
        "--mm-encoder-tp-mode",
        "data"
      ]
    }
  },
  "opt_in_features": [
    "text_only"
  ],
  "variants": {
    "default": {
      "precision": "bf16",
      "vram_minimum_gb": 578,
      "tp": 8,
      "description": "BF16 on 8x H800 (80GB each)"
    },
    "fp8": {
      "model_id": "internlm/Intern-S1-FP8",
      "precision": "fp8",
      "vram_minimum_gb": 289,
      "tp": 4,
      "description": "FP8 on 4x H800 (80GB each)",
      "json": "/internlm/Intern-S1-FP8.json"
    }
  },
  "hardware_overrides": {
    "amd": {
      "extra_args": [],
      "extra_env": {
        "VLLM_ROCM_USE_AITER": "1",
        "VLLM_ROCM_USE_AITER_MOE": "0"
      }
    }
  },
  "guide": "## Overview\n\n[Intern-S1](https://github.com/InternLM/Intern-S1) is a vision-language model developed\nby Shanghai AI Laboratory. It supports thinking and non-thinking modes via chat-template\nkwargs and ships in BF16 and FP8 variants.\n\n## Prerequisites\n\n- Hardware: 8xH800 (80GB) for BF16, 4xH800 for FP8, or 4-8x MI300X/MI325X/MI355X\n- vLLM >= 0.10.2\n\n### Install vLLM (CUDA)\n\n```bash\nuv venv\nsource .venv/bin/activate\nuv pip install -U vllm --torch-backend auto\n```\n\n### Install vLLM (AMD ROCm)\n\n```bash\nuv pip install vllm --extra-index-url https://wheels.vllm.ai/rocm/0.14.1/rocm700\n```\n\n## Launch commands\n\nBF16 on 8xH800:\n\n```bash\nvllm serve internlm/Intern-S1 \\\n  --trust-remote-code \\\n  --tensor-parallel-size 8 \\\n  --enable-auto-tool-choice \\\n  --reasoning-parser deepseek_r1 \\\n  --tool-call-parser internlm\n```\n\nFP8 on 4xH800:\n\n```bash\nvllm serve internlm/Intern-S1-FP8 \\\n  --trust-remote-code \\\n  --tensor-parallel-size 4 \\\n  --enable-auto-tool-choice \\\n  --reasoning-parser deepseek_r1 \\\n  --tool-call-parser internlm\n```\n\nFP8 on 8xMI300X/MI325X:\n\n```bash\nexport VLLM_ROCM_USE_AITER=1\nexport VLLM_ROCM_USE_AITER_MOE=0\nvllm serve internlm/Intern-S1-FP8 \\\n  --trust-remote-code --tensor-parallel-size 8 \\\n  --enable-auto-tool-choice --reasoning-parser deepseek_r1 --tool-call-parser internlm\n```\n\nFP8 on 8xMI355X: set only `VLLM_ROCM_USE_AITER=1` (no need to disable AITER MoE).\n\n## Switching Between Thinking and Non-Thinking Modes\n\n```python\nfrom openai import OpenAI\nclient = OpenAI(api_key=\"YOUR_API_KEY\", base_url=\"http://0.0.0.0:8000/v1\")\nmodel_name = client.models.list().data[0].id\n\nresponse = client.chat.completions.create(\n    model=model_name,\n    messages=[{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"9.11 and 9.8, which is greater?\"}],\n    temperature=0.8, top_p=0.8,\n    extra_body={\"chat_template_kwargs\": {\"enable_thinking\": False}},\n)\nprint(response)\n```\n\n## Troubleshooting\n\n- `ValueError: No available memory for the cache blocks.` — add `--gpu-memory-utilization 0.95`.\n\n## References\n\n- [Intern-S1 on Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/internlm/Intern-S1)\n- [Intern-S1-FP8](https://huggingface.co/internlm/Intern-S1-FP8)\n- [Intern-S1 GitHub](https://github.com/InternLM/Intern-S1)\n",
  "source": {
    "source": "vllm",
    "repo": "vllm-project/vllm",
    "ref": "main",
    "sha": "389ffebe555705c85337025d5df108d0384d365e",
    "path": "recipes/models/internlm/Intern-S1.yaml",
    "edit_url": "https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/edit/main/recipes/models/internlm/Intern-S1.yaml",
    "overlays": []
  }
}