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Ming-flash-omni 2.0
Online serving for multimodal chat + standalone TTS
Summary
- Vendor: inclusionAI
- Model:
Jonathan1909/Ming-flash-omni-2.0 - Task: Multimodal chat with text, image, audio, or video input; standalone text-to-speech (TTS); and image generation
- Mode: Online serving with the OpenAI-compatible API
- Maintainer: Community
When to use this recipe
Use this recipe when you want a known-good starting point for serving
Jonathan1909/Ming-flash-omni-2.0 with vLLM-Omni in one of three modes:
- Thinker only — multimodal understanding with text output.
- Thinker + Talker (omni-speech) — multimodal understanding with text and spoken output.
- Thinker + Imagegen (DiT) — text-to-image / img2img
- Talker only (TTS) — standalone text-to-speech via the OpenAI
/v1/audio/speechendpoint.
References
- Upstream model:
inclusionAI/Ming - For offline inference and additional client variants, see the
multimodal example dirs
examples/offline_inference/ming_flash_omni/andexamples/online_serving/ming_flash_omni/. The standalone TTS variant lives under the consolidated text-to-speech hub atexamples/offline_inference/text_to_speech/ming_flash_omni_tts/andexamples/online_serving/text_to_speech/ming_flash_omni_tts/.
Hardware Support
This recipe documents reference GPU configurations for the two-stage omni-speech deployment and the standalone TTS deployment. Other hardware and configurations are welcome as community validation lands.
GPU
4x H100 80GB — omni-speech/chat (thinker + talker)
The bundled ming_flash_omni.yaml runs the thinker with tensor parallel size
4 on GPUs 0–3 and the talker on GPU 3.
Adjust devices in the YAML to match your hardware.
Environment
- OS: Linux
- Python: 3.10+
- CUDA Driver Version: 590.48.01
- CUDA 13.0
- vLLM version: 0.19.0
- vLLM-Omni version or commit: 0.19.0rc1
Command
Thinker + talker (text and/or audio output):
vllm serve Jonathan1909/Ming-flash-omni-2.0 \
--omni \
--port 8091 \
--log-stats
Thinker only (text-only output):
vllm serve Jonathan1909/Ming-flash-omni-2.0 \
--omni \
--deploy-config vllm_omni/deploy/ming_flash_omni_thinker_only.yaml \
--port 8091
--log-stats is optional but recommended while validating the deployment.
Verification
Text output from a multimodal (image) input:
curl http://localhost:8091/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "Jonathan1909/Ming-flash-omni-2.0",
"messages": [
{"role": "system", "content": [{"type": "text", "text": "你是一个友好的AI助手。\n\ndetailed thinking off"}]},
{"role": "user", "content": [
{"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": "https://vllm-public-assets.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vision_model_images/cherry_blossom.jpg"}},
{"type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in detail."}
]}
],
"modalities": ["text"]
}'
Spoken response from a text query (save the WAV bytes):
curl http://localhost:8091/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "Jonathan1909/Ming-flash-omni-2.0",
"messages": [
{"role": "system", "content": [{"type": "text", "text": "你是一个友好的AI助手。\n\ndetailed thinking off"}]},
{"role": "user", "content": "请详细介绍鹦鹉的生活习性。"}
],
"modalities": ["audio"]
}' | jq -r '.choices[0].message.audio.data' | base64 -d > ming_omni_parrot.wav
Text + audio output from an audio input (swap audio_url for video_url
or image_url to exercise the other multimodal input paths):
curl http://localhost:8091/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "Jonathan1909/Ming-flash-omni-2.0",
"messages": [
{"role": "system", "content": [{"type": "text", "text": "你是一个友好的AI助手。\n\ndetailed thinking off"}]},
{"role": "user", "content": [
{"type": "audio_url", "audio_url": {"url": "https://vllm-public-assets.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/multimodal_asset/mary_had_lamb.ogg"}},
{"type": "text", "text": "Please recognize the language of this speech and transcribe it. Format: oral."}
]}
],
"modalities": ["text", "audio"]
}' | jq -r '.choices[0].message.content'
Streaming text output via SSE (set "stream": true):
curl -N http://localhost:8091/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "Jonathan1909/Ming-flash-omni-2.0",
"messages": [
{"role": "system", "content": [{"type": "text", "text": "你是一个友好的AI助手。\n\ndetailed thinking off"}]},
{"role": "user", "content": "请详细介绍鹦鹉的生活习性。"}
],
"modalities": ["text"],
"stream": true
}'
Each SSE event carries a data: line with a chat-completion chunk; text
deltas appear at choices[0].delta.content.
Notes
- Output modality is selected by the request body:
"modalities": ["text"],["audio"], or["text", "audio"]. The two-stage omni-speech server must be launched for any request containingaudio. - Reasoning mode: flip the system prompt suffix from
detailed thinking offtodetailed thinking onin any request above. - Memory usage: size depends on output modalities and multimodal input; leave headroom for video frames and audio caches.
Image generation (text-to-image / img2img)
Ming-flash-omni-2.0 also exposes an image-generation (diffusion) stage. Launch with the image deploy YAML, which adds an image-gen stage behind the thinker.
The image-generation stage is a standard vLLM-Omni diffusion pipeline (MingImagePipeline); its request knobs are declared in vllm_omni/model_extras/ming_flash_omni.py and routed through extra_body, so they no longer need a bespoke sampling_params_list recipe (that form is still available for per-stage thinker sampling — see below).
vllm serve Jonathan1909/Ming-flash-omni-2.0 --omni \
--deploy-config vllm_omni/deploy/ming_flash_omni_image.yaml \
--stage-init-timeout 1800 \
--init-timeout 1800 \
--port 8091
With fewer GPUs, copy the YAML and drop the thinker to TP=2 with the DiT on a free card.
Online (text-to-image)
Request image output with "modalities": ["image"]:
curl -s http://127.0.0.1:8091/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "Jonathan1909/Ming-flash-omni-2.0",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Please draw a cute cat."
}
],
"modalities": ["image"]
}' \
| jq -r '.choices[0].message.content[0].image_url.url | split(",")[1]' \
| base64 -d > ming_imagegen.png
Quick form — extra_body (keys are filtered against the declared set and routed into every stage's extra_args). Convenient, but it does not let you set the thinker (stage-0) sampling params. Wrap the knobs in a literal "extra_body" object for raw curl; the OpenAI Python client's extra_body= kwarg produces the same request:
curl http://127.0.0.1:8091/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "Jonathan1909/Ming-flash-omni-2.0",
"modalities": ["image"],
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Draw a poster."
}
],
"extra_body": {
"steps": 6,
"cfg": 1.5,
"height": 512,
"width": 512,
"seed": 123,
"byte5_text": ["理解与生成统一"],
"negative_prompt": "ugly, blurry, distorted"
}
}' \
| jq -r '.choices[0].message.content[0].image_url.url | split(",")[1]' \
| base64 -d > ming_imagegen_extra_body.png
Full control — sampling_params_list (one entry per stage: [thinker, imagegen]).
Use this when you need to tune the thinker's own sampling (temperature / top_p / top_k / max_tokens), or to place knobs explicitly per stage.
Note negative_prompt must sit on the stage-0 thinker extra_args; the imagegen-stage knobs (steps / cfg / height / width / seed / byte5_text) go on the stage-1 entry:
curl http://127.0.0.1:8091/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "Jonathan1909/Ming-flash-omni-2.0",
"modalities": ["image"],
"sampling_params_list": [
{
"temperature": 0.4,
"top_p": 0.9,
"top_k": 1,
"max_tokens": 1,
"seed": 42,
"extra_args": {
"negative_prompt": "ugly, blurry, distorted"
}
},
{
"seed": 42,
"extra_args": {
"steps": 6,
"cfg": 1.5,
"height": 512,
"width": 512,
"seed": 123,
"byte5_text": ["理解与生成统一"]
}
}
],
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Draw a poster."
}
]
}' \
| jq -r '.choices[0].message.content[0].image_url.url | split(",")[1]' \
| base64 -d > ming_imagegen_knobs.png
Knobs (declared extra_body params)
| Key | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
height / width |
1024 | Output resolution (multiples of vae_scale_factor * 2, currently 16). |
steps |
30 | Number of FlowMatchEuler denoise steps. |
cfg |
2.0 | Classifier-free guidance scale. |
seed |
42 | Per-request RNG seed. |
byte5_text |
(auto) | Glyph text for ByT5 enhancement; raw strings are auto-wrapped to Ming's Text "…". format. Auto-extracted from quoted spans in the prompt when omitted. |
negative_prompt |
(empty) | Real CFG negative conditioning. Spawns a CFG-text companion via expand_cfg_prompts; online / text-to-image only (offline uses Ming's default zero-negative). |
For img2img, add an image_url content part to the user message (online) or pass --image (offline); the reference image is routed into the DiT stage as extra[reference_image].
1x H100 80GB — standalone TTS (talker only)
The bundled ming_flash_omni_tts.yaml runs the talker on a single GPU and exposes the OpenAI /v1/audio/speech endpoint.
Environment
- OS: Linux
- Python: 3.10+
- CUDA Driver Version: 590.48.01
- CUDA 13.0
- vLLM version: 0.19.0
- vLLM-Omni version or commit: 0.19.0rc1
Command
vllm serve Jonathan1909/Ming-flash-omni-2.0 \
--omni \
--deploy-config vllm_omni/deploy/ming_flash_omni_tts.yaml \
--port 8091 \
--log-stats
--log-stats is optional but recommended while validating the deployment.
Verification
Basic curl:
curl -X POST http://localhost:8091/v1/audio/speech \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "Jonathan1909/Ming-flash-omni-2.0",
"input": "我会一直在这里陪着你。",
"response_format": "wav"
}' --output ming_online.wav
Speaker selection (e.g. lingguang):
curl -X POST http://localhost:8091/v1/audio/speech \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "Jonathan1909/Ming-flash-omni-2.0",
"input": "春天来了,万物复苏,大地一片生机盎然。田野里的油菜花开得金灿灿的,蜜蜂在花丛中忙碌地采蜜。远处的山坡上,桃花和杏花竞相绽放,粉的白的交织在一起,美不胜收。清晨的微风带着泥土的芬芳,轻轻拂过脸颊,让人感到无比惬意。孩子们在田间小路上追逐嬉戏,老人们坐在门前晒太阳,享受着这份宁静与美好。",
"speaker": "lingguang",
"response_format": "wav"
}' --output ming_online_lingguang.wav
Notes
- The OpenAI
instructionsfield is forwarded to the talker as the caption JSON — pass a raw string for风格(style) only, or a JSON-encoded object for multiple entries such as方言(dialect) and情感(emotion).