TensorRT-LLMs/docs/source/quick-start-guide.md
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# Quick Start Guide
This is the starting point to try out TensorRT-LLM. Specifically, this Quick Start Guide enables you to quickly get set up and send HTTP requests using TensorRT-LLM.
## Installation
There are multiple ways to install and run TensorRT-LLM. For most users, the options below should be ordered from simple to complex. The approaches are equivalent in terms of the supported features.
Note: **This project will download and install additional third-party open source software projects. Review the license terms of these open source projects before use.**
1. [](installation/containers)
1. Pre-built release wheels on [PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/tensorrt-llm) (see [](installation/linux))
1. [Building from source](installation/build-from-source-linux)
The following examples can most easily be executed using the prebuilt [Docker release container available on NGC](https://registry.ngc.nvidia.com/orgs/nvstaging/teams/tensorrt-llm/containers/release) (see also [release.md](https://github.com/NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM/blob/main/docker/release.md) on GitHub). Ensure to run these commands as a user with appropriate permissions, preferably `root`, to streamline the setup process.
## Launch Docker on a node with NVIDIA GPUs deployed.
```bash
docker run --ipc host --gpus all -it nvcr.io/nvidia/tensorrt-llm/release
```
## Run Offline inference with LLM API
The LLM API is a Python API designed to facilitate setup and inference with TensorRT-LLM directly within Python. It enables model optimization by simply specifying a HuggingFace repository name or a model checkpoint. The LLM API streamlines the process by managing checkpoint conversion, engine building, engine loading, and model inference, all through a single Python object.
Here is a simple example to show how to use the LLM API with TinyLlama.
```{literalinclude} ../../examples/llm-api/quickstart_example.py
:language: python
:linenos:
```
You can also directly load TensorRT Model Optimizer's [quantized checkpoints on Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/collections/nvidia/model-optimizer-66aa84f7966b3150262481a4) in the LLM constructor.
To learn more about the LLM API, check out the [](llm-api/index) and [](examples/llm_api_examples).
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## Deploy online serving with trtllm-serve
You can use the `trtllm-serve` command to start an OpenAI compatible server to interact with a model.
To start the server, you can run a command like the following example inside a Docker container:
```bash
trtllm-serve "TinyLlama/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0"
```
> [!NOTE]
> If you are running `trtllm-server` inside a Docker container, you have two options for sending API requests:
> 1. Expose port `8000` to access the server from outside the container.
> 2. Open a new terminal and use the following command to directly attach to the running container:
> ```bash
> docker exec -it <container_id> bash
> ```
After the server has started, you can access well-known OpenAI endpoints such as `v1/chat/completions`.
Inference can then be performed using examples similar to the one provided below, from a separate terminal.
```bash
curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "TinyLlama/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0",
"messages":[{"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant."},
{"role": "user", "content": "Where is New York? Tell me in a single sentence."}],
"max_tokens": 32,
"temperature": 0
}'
```
_Example Output_
```json
{
"id": "chatcmpl-ef648e7489c040679d87ed12db5d3214",
"object": "chat.completion",
"created": 1741966075,
"model": "TinyLlama/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0",
"choices": [
{
"index": 0,
"message": {
"role": "assistant",
"content": "New York is a city in the northeastern United States, located on the eastern coast of the state of New York.",
"tool_calls": []
},
"logprobs": null,
"finish_reason": "stop",
"stop_reason": null
}
],
"usage": {
"prompt_tokens": 43,
"total_tokens": 69,
"completion_tokens": 26
}
}
```
For detailed examples and command syntax, refer to the [trtllm-serve](commands/trtllm-serve.rst) section.
1. Expose port `8000` to access the server from outside the container.
2. Open a new terminal and use the following command to directly attach to the running container:
```bash:docs/source/quick-start-guide.md
docker exec -it <container_id> bash
```
## Next Steps
In this Quick Start Guide, you:
- Saw an example of the LLM API
- Learned about deploying a model with `trtllm-serve`
For more examples, refer to:
- [examples](https://github.com/NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM/tree/main/examples) for showcases of how to run a quick benchmark on latest LLMs.
## Related Information
- [Best Practices Guide](https://nvidia.github.io/TensorRT-LLM/performance/performance-tuning-guide/index.html)
- [Support Matrix](https://nvidia.github.io/TensorRT-LLM/reference/support-matrix.html)