Practical overview
When it fits
Use Vibethinker when you want to inspect or work with its compact reasoning models for competitive-style mathematics, coding, STEM reasoning or constrained instructions, and can provide an inference environment.
Who it is for
- Developers integrating a reasoning model into an application with a separately selected inference setup.
- Researchers and evaluators studying compact models on mathematics, coding, STEM and other verifiable tasks.
Documented uses
- Review VibeThinker model reports and papers.
- Access model weights linked by the repository.
- Use the documented Transformers example to generate text from a model path.
- Evaluate model outputs on tasks where answers can be verified.
Requirements & limits
- The repository offers two model sizes, 1.5B and 3B parameters.
- Transformers 4.54.0 or later is required for the documented quick-start approach.
- The project recommends vLLM 0.10.1 or SGLang 0.4.9.post6 or later for better inference performance.
- The repository says larger general-purpose models may be more suitable for broad open-domain knowledge tasks.
- The repository metadata lists an MIT license.
Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.
Load a VibeThinker model with Transformers
Use the repository's documented Transformers example to generate a response from a local model path.
Before you start
- Transformers 4.54.0 or later
- A VibeThinker model path
- A Python environment with the dependencies required by the example
Steps
Obtain a VibeThinker model path from the model weights linked by the repository.
Load the model with AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained and its tokenizer with AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained, following the README example.
Format a user prompt with the tokenizer's chat template and generate a response using the example's generation configuration.
Expected outcome
The example returns decoded model-generated text for the supplied prompt.
Guide limitations
- The README does not specify hardware requirements.
- vLLM 0.10.1 or SGLang 0.4.9.post6 or later are recommended for better inference performance, not required by the shown Transformers example.
- The example uses trust_remote_code=True when loading the tokenizer.
Sources & review
Source record details
- Source availability
- Active
- Sources checked
- 11 October 2026
- Original website title
- WeiboAI/VibeThinker · Official homepage title · retained in its source language

