sglang/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/docs/cli.md

# SGLang diffusion CLI Inference

The SGLang-diffusion CLI provides a quick way to access the inference pipeline for image and video generation.

## Prerequisites

- A working SGLang diffusion installation and the `sglang` CLI available in `$PATH`.
- Python 3.11+ if you plan to use the OpenAI Python SDK.


## Supported Arguments

### Server Arguments

- `--model-path {MODEL_PATH}`: Path to the model or model ID
- `--num-gpus {NUM_GPUS}`: Number of GPUs to use
- `--tp-size {TP_SIZE}`: Tensor parallelism size (only for the encoder; should not be larger than 1 if text encoder offload is enabled, as layer-wise offload plus prefetch is faster)
- `--sp-size {SP_SIZE}`: Sequence parallelism size (typically should match the number of GPUs)
- `--ulysses-degree {ULYSSES_DEGREE}`: The degree of DeepSpeed-Ulysses-style SP in USP
- `--ring-degree {RING_DEGREE}`: The degree of ring attention-style SP in USP


### Sampling Parameters

- `--prompt {PROMPT}`: Text description for the video you want to generate
- `--num-inference-steps {STEPS}`: Number of denoising steps
- `--negative-prompt {PROMPT}`: Negative prompt to guide generation away from certain concepts
- `--seed {SEED}`: Random seed for reproducible generation


#### Image/Video Configuration

- `--height {HEIGHT}`: Height of the generated output
- `--width {WIDTH}`: Width of the generated output
- `--num-frames {NUM_FRAMES}`: Number of frames to generate
- `--fps {FPS}`: Frames per second for the saved output, if this is a video-generation task


#### Output Options

- `--output-path {PATH}`: Directory to save the generated video
- `--save-output`: Whether to save the image/video to disk
- `--return-frames`: Whether to return the raw frames

### Using Configuration Files

Instead of specifying all parameters on the command line, you can use a configuration file:

```bash
sglang generate --config {CONFIG_FILE_PATH}
```

The configuration file should be in JSON or YAML format with the same parameter names as the CLI options. Command-line arguments take precedence over settings in the configuration file, allowing you to override specific values while keeping the rest from the configuration file.

Example configuration file (config.json):

```json
{
    "model_path": "FastVideo/FastHunyuan-diffusers",
    "prompt": "A beautiful woman in a red dress walking down a street",
    "output_path": "outputs/",
    "num_gpus": 2,
    "sp_size": 2,
    "tp_size": 1,
    "num_frames": 45,
    "height": 720,
    "width": 1280,
    "num_inference_steps": 6,
    "seed": 1024,
    "fps": 24,
    "precision": "bf16",
    "vae_precision": "fp16",
    "vae_tiling": true,
    "vae_sp": true,
    "vae_config": {
        "load_encoder": false,
        "load_decoder": true,
        "tile_sample_min_height": 256,
        "tile_sample_min_width": 256
    },
    "text_encoder_precisions": [
        "fp16",
        "fp16"
    ],
    "mask_strategy_file_path": null,
    "enable_torch_compile": false
}
```

Or using YAML format (config.yaml):

```yaml
model_path: "FastVideo/FastHunyuan-diffusers"
prompt: "A beautiful woman in a red dress walking down a street"
output_path: "outputs/"
num_gpus: 2
sp_size: 2
tp_size: 1
num_frames: 45
height: 720
width: 1280
num_inference_steps: 6
seed: 1024
fps: 24
precision: "bf16"
vae_precision: "fp16"
vae_tiling: true
vae_sp: true
vae_config:
  load_encoder: false
  load_decoder: true
  tile_sample_min_height: 256
  tile_sample_min_width: 256
text_encoder_precisions:
  - "fp16"
  - "fp16"
mask_strategy_file_path: null
enable_torch_compile: false
```


To see all the options, you can use the `--help` flag:

```bash
sglang generate --help
```

## Serve

Launch the SGLang diffusion HTTP server and interact with it using the OpenAI SDK and curl.

### Start the server

Use the following command to launch the server:

```bash
SERVER_ARGS=(
  --model-path Wan-AI/Wan2.1-T2V-1.3B-Diffusers
  --text-encoder-cpu-offload
  --pin-cpu-memory
  --num-gpus 4
  --ulysses-degree=2
  --ring-degree=2
)

sglang serve "${SERVER_ARGS[@]}"
```

- **--model-path**: Which model to load. The example uses `Wan-AI/Wan2.1-T2V-1.3B-Diffusers`.
- **--port**: HTTP port to listen on (the default here is `30010`).

For detailed API usage, including Image, Video Generation and LoRA management, please refer to the [OpenAI API Documentation](openai_api.md).


## Generate

Run a one-off generation task without launching a persistent server.

To use it, pass both server arguments and sampling parameters in one command, after the `generate` subcommand, for example:

```bash
SERVER_ARGS=(
  --model-path Wan-AI/Wan2.2-T2V-A14B-Diffusers
  --text-encoder-cpu-offload
  --pin-cpu-memory
  --num-gpus 4
  --ulysses-degree=2
  --ring-degree=2
)

SAMPLING_ARGS=(
  --prompt "A curious raccoon"
  --save-output
  --output-path outputs
  --output-file-name "A curious raccoon.mp4"
)

sglang generate "${SERVER_ARGS[@]}" "${SAMPLING_ARGS[@]}"
```

Once the generation task has finished, the server will shut down automatically.

> [!NOTE]
> The HTTP server-related arguments are ignored in this subcommand.