This container houses the Phi-4-Mini-Instruct, a lightweight open model from the Phi-4 family. Trained on high-quality, reasoning-dense data, it supports a 128K context length and is fine-tuned for precise instruction adherence and robust safety.
Phi-4-Mini-Instruct Overview
Description:
This container houses the Phi-4-Mini-Instruct, which is a lightweight open model built upon synthetic data and filtered publicly available websites - with a focus on high-quality, reasoning dense data. The model belongs to the Phi-4 model family and supports 128K token context length. The model underwent an enhancement process, incorporating both supervised fine-tuning and direct preference optimization to support precise instruction adherence and robust safety measures.
The container components are ready for commercial/non-commercial use.
Third-Party Community Consideration
This model is not owned or developed by NVIDIA. This model has been developed and built to a third-party's requirements for this application and use case; see link to Non-NVIDIA[microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct]
(microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct · Hugging Face).
License/Terms of Use:
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: MIT License.
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Deployment Geography:
Global
Release Date:
Build.Nvidia.com 02/26/2025 via
phi-4-mini-instruct Model by Microsoft | NVIDIA NIM
Github 02/26/2026 via
Phi-4-mini-instruct and Phi-4-multimodal-instruct are now available in GitHub Models (GA) - GitHub Changelog
Huggingface 02/27/2025 via
microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct · Hugging Face
Phi-4-Mini-Instruct
Phi-4-Mini-Instruct Container includes the following model:
| Model Name & Link | Use Case | How to Pull the Model |
|---|---|---|
| Phi-4-Mini-Instruct | Instruction-tuned small language model for reasoning, math, code generation, and general-purpose dialogue, suitable for deployment in constrained compute environments or as a backbone for fine-tuned task-specific systems. | Automatic |
Deployment Details:
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Container Version(s):
Phi-4-Mini-Instruct-1.12.0
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