# Subject: Access Request - Phi-4-multimodal-instruct

**URL:** <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/subject-access-request-phi-4-multimodal-instruct/159945>\
**Category:** 🤗Transformers\
**Created:** [June 19, 2025, 10:46am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/subject-access-request-phi-4-multimodal-instruct/159945 "2025-06-19T10:46:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 10:46am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/subject-access-request-phi-4-multimodal-instruct/159945/1 "2025-06-19T10:46:00Z")

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Hello,

I would like to use the model `microsoft/Phi-4-multimodal-instruct`, but I am consistently receiving a 401 Unauthorized error in Colab. There is no “Request access” button visible on the model page.

Could you please confirm whether the model is gated and how I can request access?

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![John6666](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/john6666/32/27664_2.png) [@John6666](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/John6666)\
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It does _not appear to be a gated model_.

When using Colab, it is common to encounter a 401 error related to tokens (Colab has various quirks…), so let’s try to find a workaround from below and test various options. In general, directly passing the token is the top priority, but using the `login()` function is a stable alternative (the advantage is that the rest of the code remains unchanged).The next option is setting the `HF_TOKEN` environment variable (preferably as a secret for security).

> [@401 Error when trying to upload model from local machine](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/401-error-when-trying-to-upload-model-from-local-machine/156020):
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> Hello everyone, im currently training LLMs locally with the Unsloth framework. After training they provide a way to upload your model to the Huggingface Hub. model.push\_to\_hub\_gguf( “LuuWee/modelspacename”, # Change hf to your username! tokenizer, quantization\_method = [“q4\_k\_m”, “q8\_0”, “q5\_k\_m”,], token = “hf\_access\_token”, ) For it to upload you need to add your username and an Accesstoken in the request. This worked for me when i trained in Google Colab. I tried the same thing in my …