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# Transformers fallback in SGLang
`sglang` can fall back to using models that are available in `transformers`. This works for most decoder-style language models and support for vision-language models is coming soon!
## Example launch Command
By default, we will use sglang implementation if it is available. Otherwise, we will fall back to transformers one. However, you can switch the implementation by setting `--model-impl` to `transformers`.
```shell
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
--model-path meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct \
--host 0.0.0.0 \
--port 30000 \
--model-impl transformers
```
## Supported features
### Quantization
Transformers fall back has supported most of available quantization in SGLang (except GGUF). See [Quantization page](../advanced_features/quantization.md) for more information about supported quantization in SGLang.
### Remote code
This fallback also means that any model on the hub that can be used in `transformers` with `trust_remote_code=True` that correctly implements attention can be used in production!
A model just needs the following two things:
```python
from transformers import PreTrainedModel
from torch import nn
class MyAttention(nn.Module):
def forward(self, hidden_states, **kwargs): # <- kwargs are required
...
attention_interface = ALL_ATTENTION_FUNCTIONS[self.config._attn_implementation]
attn_output, attn_weights = attention_interface(
self,
query_states,
key_states,
value_states,
**kwargs,
)
...
class MyModel(PreTrainedModel):
_supports_attention_backend = True
```
Here is what happens in the background:
1. The config is loaded
2. `MyModel` python class is loaded from the `auto_map`, and we check that the model `_supports_attention_backend`.
3. The `TransformersModel` backend is used. See `/srt/models/transformers`, which leverages `self.config._attn_implementation = "sglang"`, thus the need to use `ALL_ATTENTION_FUNCTIONS`.
That's it!