python -m fastdeploy.entrypoints.openai.api_server \
       --model baidu/ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-Thinking \
       --port 8180 \
       --metrics-port 8181 \
       --engine-worker-queue-port 8182 \
       --load-choices "default_v1" \
       --tensor-parallel-size 1 \
       --max-model-len 131072 \
       --reasoning-parser ernie_x1 \
       --tool-call-parser ernie_x1 \
       --max-num-seqs 32

curl -X POST "http://0.0.0.0:8180/v1/chat/completions" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d $'{
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "How \'s the weather in Beijing today?"
    }
  ],
  "tools": [
    {
      "type": "function",
      "function": {
        "name": "get_weather",
        "description": "Determine weather in my location",
        "parameters": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "location": {
              "type": "string",
              "description": "The city and state e.g. San Francisco, CA"
            },
            "unit": {
              "type": "string",
              "enum": [
                "c",
                "f"
              ]
            }
          },
          "additionalProperties": false,
          "required": [
            "location",
            "unit"
          ]
        },
        "strict": true
      }
    }]
}'

vllm serve baidu/ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-Thinking

import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model_name = "baidu/ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-Thinking"

# load the tokenizer and the model
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    model_name,
    device_map="auto",
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
)

# prepare the model input
prompt = "Give me a short introduction to large language model."
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": prompt}
]
text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
    messages,
    tokenize=False,
    add_generation_prompt=True
)
model_inputs = tokenizer([text], add_special_tokens=False, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)

# conduct text completion
generated_ids = model.generate(
    **model_inputs,
    max_new_tokens=1024
)
output_ids = generated_ids[0][len(model_inputs.input_ids[0]):].tolist()

# decode the generated ids
generate_text = tokenizer.decode(output_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)
print("generate_text:", generate_text)

@misc{ernie2025technicalreport,
      title={ERNIE 4.5 Technical Report},
      author={Baidu-ERNIE-Team},
      year={2025},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      howpublished={\url{https://ernie.baidu.com/blog/publication/ERNIE_Technical_Report.pdf}}
}