To use your model, you can either:
  1. Host it on Together AI as a dedicated endpoint(DE) for an hourly usage fee
  2. Run it immediately if the model supports Serverless LoRA Inference
  3. Download your model and run it locally

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Hosting your model on Together AI

If you select your model in the models dashboard you can click CREATE DEDICATED ENDPOINT to create a dedicated endpoint for the fine-tuned model.
Once it’s deployed, you can use the ID to query your new model using any of our APIs: 
together chat.completions \
  --model "[email protected]/Meta-Llama-3-8B-2024-07-11-22-57-17" \
  --message "user" "What are some fun things to do in New York?"
Hosting your fine-tuned model is charged per minute hosted. You can see the hourly pricing for fine-tuned model inference in the pricing table. When you’re not using the model, be sure to stop the endpoint from the the models dashboard. Read more about dedicated inference here.

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Serverless LoRA Inference

If you fine-tuned the model using parameter efficient LoRA fine-tuning you can select the model in the models dashbaord and can click OPEN IN PLAYGROUND to quickly test the fine-tuned model. You can also call the model directly just like any other model on the Together AI platform, by providing the unique fine-tuned model output_name that you can find for the specific model on the dashboard. See the list of models that support LoRA Inference. 
MODEL_NAME_FOR_INFERENCE="[email protected]/Meta-Llama-3-8B-2024-07-11-22-57-17" #from Model page or Fine-tuning page

curl -X POST https://api.together.xyz/v1/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOGETHER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "'$MODEL_NAME_FOR_INFERENCE'",
    "messages": [
      {
        "role": "user",
        "content": "What are some fun things to do in New York?",
      },
    ],
    "max_tokens": 128
  }'
You can even upload LoRA adapters from HuggingFace or an s3 bucket. Read more about Serverless LoRA Inference here .

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Running Your Model Locally

To run your model locally, first download it by calling download with your job ID: 
together fine-tuning download "ft-bb62e747-b8fc-49a3-985c-f32f7cc6bb04"
Your model will be downloaded to the location specified in output as a tar.zst file, which is an archive file format that uses the ZStandard algorithm. You’ll need to install ZStandard to decompress your model. On Macs, you can use Homebrew: 
brew install zstd
cd my-model
zstd -d model.tar.zst
tar -xvf model.tar
cd ..
Once your archive is decompressed, you should see the following set of files: 
tokenizer_config.json
special_tokens_map.json
pytorch_model.bin
generation_config.json
tokenizer.json
config.json
These can be used with various libraries and languages to run your model locally. Transformers is a popular Python library for working with pretrained models, and using it with your new model looks like this: 
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
import torch

device = torch.device("cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu")

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("./my-model")

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
  "./my-model",
  trust_remote_code=True,
).to(device)

input_context = "Space Robots are"
input_ids = tokenizer.encode(input_context, return_tensors="pt")
output = model.generate(input_ids.to(device), max_length=128, temperature=0.7).cpu()
output_text = tokenizer.decode(output[0], skip_special_tokens=True)

print(output_text)

Space Robots are a great way to get your kids interested in science. After all, they are the future!
If you see the output, your new model is working! You now have a custom fine-tuned model that you can run completely locally, either on your own machine or on networked hardware of your choice.