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+import os
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field
+from typing import Dict, List, Optional, Union, Literal
+from modal import Image, Secret, Stub, method, asgi_app
+from uuid import uuid4
+import time
+from fastapi import FastAPI
+
+app = FastAPI()
+
+MODEL_DIR = "/model"
+BASE_MODEL = "meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf"
+
+
+# borrowed from vLLM, but using dataclasses instead of pydantic
+@dataclass
+class ChatCompletionRequest:
+    model: str
+    messages: Union[str, List[Dict[str, str]]]
+    temperature: Optional[float] = 0.7
+    top_p: Optional[float] = 1.0
+    n: Optional[int] = 1
+    max_tokens: Optional[int] = None
+    stop: Optional[Union[str, List[str]]] = field(default_factory=list)
+    stream: Optional[bool] = False
+    presence_penalty: Optional[float] = 0.0
+    frequency_penalty: Optional[float] = 0.0
+    logit_bias: Optional[Dict[str, float]] = None
+    user: Optional[str] = None
+    # Additional parameters supported by vLLM
+    best_of: Optional[int] = None
+    top_k: Optional[int] = -1
+    ignore_eos: Optional[bool] = False
+    use_beam_search: Optional[bool] = False
+    stop_token_ids: Optional[List[int]] = field(default_factory=list)
+    skip_special_tokens: Optional[bool] = True
+    spaces_between_special_tokens: Optional[bool] = True
+
+
+@dataclass
+class UsageInfo:
+    prompt_tokens: int = 0
+    total_tokens: int = 0
+    completion_tokens: Optional[int] = 0
+
+
+@dataclass
+class ChatMessage:
+    role: str
+    content: str
+
+
+@dataclass
+class ChatCompletionResponseChoice:
+    index: int
+    message: ChatMessage
+    finish_reason: Optional[Literal["stop", "length"]] = None
+
+
+@dataclass
+class ChatCompletionResponse:
+    choices: List[ChatCompletionResponseChoice]
+    id: str = field(default_factory=lambda: f"chatcmpl-{uuid4()}")
+    object: str = "chat.completion"
+    created: int = field(default_factory=lambda: int(time.time()))
+    model: str = BASE_MODEL
+    usage: Optional[UsageInfo] = None
+
+
+def download_model_to_folder():
+    from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
+
+    snapshot_download(
+        BASE_MODEL,
+        local_dir=MODEL_DIR,
+    )
+
+
+image = (
+    Image.from_registry(
+        "nvidia/cuda:12.1.0-base-ubuntu22.04", add_python="3.10"
+    )
+    .pip_install("vllm==0.2.6")
+    .run_function(
+        download_model_to_folder,
+        secret=Secret.from_name("huggingface"),
+        timeout=60 * 20,
+    )
+)
+
+stub = Stub("example-vllm-inference", image=image)
+
+
+@stub.cls(
+    gpu="A100",
+    secret=Secret.from_name("huggingface"),
+    allow_concurrent_inputs=12,
+    container_idle_timeout=300,
+)
+class Model:
+    def __enter__(self):
+        from vllm.engine.arg_utils import AsyncEngineArgs
+        from vllm.engine.async_llm_engine import AsyncLLMEngine
+        import jinja2
+        from jinja2.exceptions import TemplateError
+        from jinja2.sandbox import ImmutableSandboxedEnvironment
+
+        def raise_exception(message):
+            raise TemplateError(message)
+
+        jinja_env = ImmutableSandboxedEnvironment(
+            trim_blocks=True, lstrip_blocks=True
+        )
+        jinja_env.globals["raise_exception"] = raise_exception
+        chat_template = "{% for message in messages %}{{'<|im_start|>' + message['role'] + '\n' + message['content'] + '<|im_end|>' + '\n'}}{% endfor %}{% if add_generation_prompt %}{{ '<|im_start|>assistant\n' }}{% endif %}"
+        self.template = jinja_env.from_string(chat_template)
+
+        engine_args = AsyncEngineArgs(
+            model=MODEL_DIR,
+            tensor_parallel_size=1,
+            # Only uses 90% of GPU memory by default
+            gpu_memory_utilization=0.95,
+        )
+
+        self.engine = AsyncLLMEngine.from_engine_args(engine_args)
+
+    @method()
+    async def generate(
+        self, messages: List[Dict[str, str]], sampling_params: Dict[str, float]
+    ):
+        import time
+        from vllm import SamplingParams
+        from vllm.sampling_params import SamplingParams
+        from vllm.utils import random_uuid
+
+        sampling_params = SamplingParams(**sampling_params)
+        request_id = random_uuid()
+        prompt = self.template.render(
+            messages=messages,
+            add_generation_prompt=True,
+        )
+        results_generator = self.engine.generate(
+            prompt, sampling_params, request_id
+        )
+        print(prompt)
+
+        t0 = time.time()
+        index, tokens = 0, 0
+        async for request_output in results_generator:
+            if "\ufffd" == request_output.outputs[0].text[-1]:
+                continue
+            yield request_output.outputs[0].text[index:]
+            index = len(request_output.outputs[0].text)
+
+            # Token accounting
+            tokens = len(request_output.outputs[0].token_ids)
+
+        throughput = tokens / (time.time() - t0)
+        print(f"Request completed: {throughput:.4f} tokens/s")
+        # print(request_output.outputs[0].text)
+
+
+@app.post("/chat/completions")
+def create_completion(
+    request: ChatCompletionRequest,
+):
+    model = Model()
+    sampling_params = {
+        "temperature": request.temperature,
+        "top_p": request.top_p,
+        "max_tokens": request.max_tokens
+        if request.max_tokens is not None
+        else 800,
+        "presence_penalty": request.presence_penalty,
+        "frequency_penalty": request.frequency_penalty,
+    }
+    messages = request.messages
+    tokens = []
+    for i, token_text in enumerate(
+        model.generate.remote_gen(
+            messages=messages, sampling_params=sampling_params
+        )
+    ):
+        tokens.append(token_text)
+
+    return ChatCompletionResponse(
+        choices=[
+            ChatCompletionResponseChoice(
+                index=0,
+                message=ChatMessage(role="assistant", content="".join(tokens)),
+                finish_reason="length"
+                if i == len(messages) - 1
+                else "stop sequence",
+            )
+        ],
+        usage=UsageInfo(
+            prompt_tokens=len(messages),
+            total_tokens=len(tokens),
+            completion_tokens=len(tokens) - len(messages),
+        ),
+    )
+
+
+@stub.function(timeout=60 * 10, allow_concurrent_inputs=12)
+@asgi_app()
+def fastapi_app():
+    return app
+
+
+@stub.local_entrypoint()
+def main():
+    model = Model()
+    questions = [
+        "Implement a Python function to compute the Fibonacci numbers.",
+        "Write a Rust function that performs binary exponentiation.",
+    ]
+    sampling_params = {
+        "temperature": 0.75,
+        "top_p": 1,
+        "max_tokens": 800,
+        "presence_penalty": 1.15,
+    }
+
+    # for question in questions:
+    #     messages = [
+    #         {"role": "user", "content": question},
+    #     ]
+    #     tokens = []
+    #     for token_text in model.generate.remote_gen(
+    #         messages=messages,
+    #         sampling_params=sampling_params
+    #     ):
+    #         tokens.append(token_text)
+    #     print("".join(tokens))
+
+    from openai import OpenAI
+
+    client = OpenAI(
+        api_key="EMPTY",
+        base_url="https://gongy--example-vllm-inference-fastapi-app-dev.modal.run/",
+    )
+    chat_completion = client.chat.completions.create(
+        messages=[
+            {
+                "role": "user",
+                "content": "Say this is a test",
+            }
+        ],
+        model=BASE_MODEL,
+    )
+    print("Completion result:", chat_completion)