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# Inkling-Small

> Use NeMo AutoModel to fine-tune Inkling-Small for VLM workflows with checked-in image-text-to-text recipes and documented distributed settings.

[Inkling-Small](https://huggingface.co/thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small) has a checked-in NeMo AutoModel recipe for image-text-to-text.
The Hugging Face configuration declares the `InklingForConditionalGeneration` architecture.

## Fine-Tune Inkling-Small

Follow the [installation instructions](/get-started/installation), then review the checked-in recipe and
its declared topology below before choosing a local or cluster launcher.

Use the [Slurm launcher guide](/job-launchers/slurm-cluster) for the multi-node run.

## Choose a Workflow

| Goal                                  | Start Here                                                                                                                                       |
| ------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Run the primary recipe for this model | Use the [recipe configuration](https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Automodel/blob/main/examples/vlm_finetune/inkling/Inkling_small_medpix_ep64.yaml). |
| Prepare your environment              | Follow the [installation instructions](/get-started/installation).                                                                               |

### Configuration

| Setting  | Configuration                                                                             |
| -------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Hardware | -                                                                                         |
| Strategy | FSDP2; tp\_size=1, pp\_size=1, cp\_size=1, ep\_size=64                                    |
| Nodes    | 8                                                                                         |
| Features | Activation checkpointing (activation\_checkpointing=true), HybridEP (dispatcher=hybridep) |
| Advanced | bfloat16, attention=sdpa, linear=torch, experts=torch\_mm, dispatcher=hybridep            |

## Model Reference

### Model Architecture

| Property     | Value                             |
| ------------ | --------------------------------- |
| Task         | Image-text-to-text                |
| Architecture | `InklingForConditionalGeneration` |

### Available Models

* [`thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small`](https://huggingface.co/thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small)

## Related Resources

* [Vision-language model fine-tuning guide](/recipes-e2e-examples/gemma-3-3n)