phi-4-mini-instruct-int4-ov-npu

Phi-4-mini-instruct-int4-ov

• Model creator: Microsoft
• Original model: Phi-4-mini-instruct

Description

This is Phi-4-mini-instruct model converted to the OpenVINO™ IR (Intermediate Representation) format with weights compressed to INT4 by NNCF.

With the following pyproject.yoml

[project]
name = "export"
version = "0.1.0"
description = "Export models"
readme = "README.md"
requires-python = "==3.12.*"
dependencies = [
    "openvino==2025.2.0",
    "optimum[openvino]",
    "optimum-intel",
    "openvino-genai",
    "huggingface-hub==0.33.0",
    "tokenizers==0.21.1"
]

Then run the export

uv sync
uv run optimum-cli export openvino --model microsoft/phi-4-mini-instruct --task text-generation-with-past --weight-format int4 --group-size -1 --ratio 1.0 --sym --trust-remote-code phi-4-mini-instruct/INT4-NPU_compressed_weights 

Compatibility

The provided OpenVINO™ IR model is compatible with:

• OpenVINO version 2025.2.0 and higher
• Optimum Intel 1.23.0 and higher

Running Model Inference with OpenVINO GenAI

1. Install packages required for using OpenVINO GenAI.

pip install -U openvino openvino-tokenizers openvino-genai
pip install huggingface_hub

1. Download model from HuggingFace Hub

import huggingface_hub as hf_hub
model_id = "bweng/phi-4-mini-instruct-int4-ov-npu"
model_path = "phi-4-mini-instruct-int4-ov"
hf_hub.snapshot_download(model_id, local_dir=model_path)

1. Run model inference:

import openvino_genai as ov_genai
device = "NPU"
pipe = ov_genai.LLMPipeline(model_path, "NPU", MAX_PROMPT_LEN=4096, CACHE_DIR="./cache")

# Create a proper GenerationConfig object
gen_config = GenerationConfig(apply_chat_template=True, max_new_tokens=1024)

# Now call generate with the correct config object
output = pipe.generate("How are you doing?", generation_config=gen_config)
print(output)

More GenAI usage examples can be found in OpenVINO GenAI library docs and samples

You can find more detaild usage examples in OpenVINO Notebooks:

• LLM
• RAG text generation

Limitations

Check the original model card for original model card for limitations.

Legal information

The original model is distributed under mit license. More details can be found in original model card.

Disclaimer

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