Instructions to use dlab-spp/vanilla-1.7b-instruct with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use dlab-spp/vanilla-1.7b-instruct with Transformers:

# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="dlab-spp/vanilla-1.7b-instruct")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("dlab-spp/vanilla-1.7b-instruct")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("dlab-spp/vanilla-1.7b-instruct", device_map="auto")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
inputs = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
	messages,
	add_generation_prompt=True,
	tokenize=True,
	return_dict=True,
	return_tensors="pt",
).to(model.device)

outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=40)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:]))

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use dlab-spp/vanilla-1.7b-instruct with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "dlab-spp/vanilla-1.7b-instruct"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "dlab-spp/vanilla-1.7b-instruct",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/dlab-spp/vanilla-1.7b-instruct

SGLang

How to use dlab-spp/vanilla-1.7b-instruct with SGLang:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install SGLang from pip:
pip install sglang
# Start the SGLang server:
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
    --model-path "dlab-spp/vanilla-1.7b-instruct" \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "dlab-spp/vanilla-1.7b-instruct",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker images

docker run --gpus all \
    --shm-size 32g \
    -p 30000:30000 \
    -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
    --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \
    --ipc=host \
    lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
    python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
        --model-path "dlab-spp/vanilla-1.7b-instruct" \
        --host 0.0.0.0 \
        --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "dlab-spp/vanilla-1.7b-instruct",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use dlab-spp/vanilla-1.7b-instruct with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/dlab-spp/vanilla-1.7b-instruct
```

Vanilla — Instruct (1.7B)

Type: instruction-tuned model (base model + persona-binding supervised fine-tuning).

Baseline (no pretraining safety intervention), post-trained with the shared persona-binding SFT.

Base counterpart: dlab-spp/vanilla-1.7b-base.

Model details

Architecture: SmolLM2-1.7B architecture, trained from scratch.
Tokenizer: SmolLM2 tokenizer with an added <assistant> marker token (vocabulary 49188).
Pretraining: ~100B tokens on a subset of the Olmo 3 Dolma 3 mixture.
Post-training: persona-binding supervised fine-tuning (PBSFT-mix): 300k single-turn examples, 90% WildChat-1M instructions and 10% safety prompts (WildJailbreak, WildGuardMix); assistant responses follow a constitution with inline [N.M] citations; response-only loss, one epoch.

Chat format

There is no system prompt. Each assistant turn opens with <|im_start|><assistant>. Use the built-in chat template:

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
import torch

repo = "dlab-spp/vanilla-1.7b-instruct"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(repo, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16, device_map="auto")

msgs = [{"role": "user", "content": "How should I think about honesty?"}]
ids = tok.apply_chat_template(msgs, add_generation_prompt=True, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
out = model.generate(ids, max_new_tokens=512)
print(tok.decode(out[0, ids.shape[1]:], skip_special_tokens=False))

Intended use

Research on alignment and safety (constitutional alignment, value generalization, jailbreak robustness). A research artifact, not a production model; it can produce incorrect or unsafe content.

Citation

@misc{minder2026syntheticpersonapretrainingalignment,
      title={Synthetic Persona Pretraining: Alignment from Token Zero},
      author={Julian Minder and Viktor Moskvoretskii and Raghav Singhal and Difan Jiao and Andy Arditi and Shaobo Cui and Yiderigun Borjigin and Kartik Bali and Stefan Krsteski and Harsh Raj and Huu Nguyen and Jannik Brinkmann and Ashton Anderson and Roland Aydin and Robert West},
      year={2026},
      eprint={2608.13482},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.LG},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13482},
}

License: to be finalised.

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Safetensors

Model size

2B params

Tensor type

BF16

Collection including dlab-spp/vanilla-1.7b-instruct

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Collection

1.7B SPP models: bases publish their training trajectory as step-* revisions, plus persona-binding instruct counterparts. • 10 items • Updated 22 days ago

Paper for dlab-spp/vanilla-1.7b-instruct

Synthetic Persona Pretraining: Alignment from Token Zero

Paper • 2608.13482 • Published 10 days ago

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