Feature Overview:
This Feature card is part of validating 3rd-party inference models in vllm inference flow for RHELAI 1.5. This is separate from the ilab model serve inference validation.

3rd-party model for this card: Mistral Small 3 24B-Instruct

Goals:

• Serve Mistral Small 3 24B with vllm in RHELAI 1.5 - functional test
  • Chat with it to confirm it functions
  • No errors/warnings arise
• Start documentation for MVP vllm inferencing on RHELAI 1.5 
• Run for all quantized variants of the model (Base, INT4, INT8, FP8)

 Out of Scope [To be updated post-refinement]:

• Ilab model serve functional testing, this is a separate endeavor

Requirements:

• Documentation to be updated to reflect the workaround for directly deploying vllm for inferencing on RHELAI
  • Specifying the entrypoint command to run vllm when the container starts: ie. for Podman
  • Specifying how models are downloaded and referenced in the command to be served

• • ENTRYPOINT=/opt/app-root/bin/vllm
    IMAGE=registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/instructlab-nvidia-rhel9:1.4-1738905416
    
    podman run --rm -ti \
    --device "nvidia.com/gpu=all" \
    --security-opt "label=disable" \
    --net host \
    --shm-size 10G \
    --pids-limit -1 \
    -v $HOME:$HOME \
    --entrypoint $ENTRYPOINT \
    $IMAGE \
    serve ~/models/a57d425d-80c2-4361-bbf7-23f1262ceea1 --served-model-name wcabanba0308sves-mlang-skill --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8000 

• All base and quantized variants of the model are able to be served via this workaround

Done - Acceptance Criteria:

• QE ensures all functional requirements are met 

• Model	Quantization Level	Confirmed
  Mistral Small 3 24B-Instruct	Baseline
  Mistral Small 3 24B-Instruct INT4	INT4
  Mistral Small 3 24B-Instruct INT8	INT8
  Mistral Small 3 24B-Instruct FP8	FP8

• Documentation is updated
• All base and quantized versions of the Model are confirmed to meet the requirements and all have a 'X' in the Confirmed boxes

Use Cases - i.e. User Experience & Workflow:

• User downloads the model via quay or huggingface
• User serves the model following the documentation to bypass other components of the RHELAI container and serves directly on vllm

Documentation Considerations:{}

• See requirements

Questions to answer:

• Which vllm version is in the 1.4 vs what is planned for 1.5?

Background & Strategic Fit:

Customers have been asking to leverage the latest and greatest third-party models from Meta, Mistral, Microsoft, Qwen, etc. within Red Hat AI Products. As our they continue to adopt and deploy OS models, the third-party model validation pipeline provides inference performance benchmarking and accuracy evaluations for third-party models to give customers confidence and predictability bringing third-party models to Instruct Lab and vLLM within RHEL AI and RHOAI.

See Red Hat AI Model Validation Strategy Doc

See Redhat Q1 2025 Third Party Model Validation Presentation