code: def serve(
      model_name_or_path: str = "",
      model_config: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None,
      mii_config: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None,
      **kwargs,
  ) -> Union[None, MIIClient]:
      mii_config = _parse_kwargs_to_mii_config(
          model_name_or_path=model_name_or_path,
          model_config=model_config,
          mii_config=mii_config,
          **kwargs,
      )
  
      # Eventually we will move away from generating score files, leaving this
      # here as a placeholder for now.
      # MIIServer(mii_config)
      create_score_file(mii_config)
  
      if mii_config.deployment_type == DeploymentType.LOCAL:
          import_score_file(
              mii_config.deployment_name, DeploymentType.LOCAL
          ).init()
          return MIIClient(mii_config=mii_config)
      if mii_config.deployment_type == DeploymentType.AML:
          acr_name = mii.aml_related.utils.get_acr_name()
          mii.aml_related.utils.generate_aml_scripts(
              acr_name=acr_name,
              deployment_name=mii_config.deployment_name,
              model_name=mii_config.model_config.model,
              task_name=mii_config.model_config.task,
              replica_num=mii_config.model_config.replica_num,
              instance_type=mii_config.instance_type,
              version=mii_config.version,
          )
          print(
              f"AML deployment assets at {mii.aml_related.utils.aml_output_path(mii_config.deployment_name)}"
          )
          print(
              "Please run 'deploy.sh' to bring your deployment online"
          )
  
file_path: deepspeed-mii/mii/api.py
imports: from typing import Optional, Any, Dict, Tuple, Union
  import mii
  from mii.backend import MIIClient
  from mii.batching import MIIPipeline, MIIAsyncPipeline
  from mii.config import get_mii_config, ModelConfig, MIIConfig
  from mii.constants import DeploymentType
  from mii.errors import UnknownArgument
  from mii.modeling.models import load_model
  from mii.score import create_score_file
  from mii.modeling.tokenizers import load_tokenizer
  from mii.utils import import_score_file
label_desc: Use image node_id 4 for calling a global function with example usage: serve(model_name_or_path, model_config, mii_config) and returns: MIIClient