Octen · First MLX build 24 Aug 2026
Octen-Embedding-4B
MLX
Text apache-2.0
A 4B parameter embeddings model from Octen, with one MLX build at 4-bit.
- Parameters
- 4B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 4-bit Octen-Embedding-4B-MLX-4bit
- Memory needed
- 5 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 2.3 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 62 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Embeddings Text
- MLX builds
- 1 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 5 GB at 4-bit
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64 GB
128 GB
Fits with headroomTight, close other appsWon’t fit
Estimated from the size of the weights, plus a fifth for context and working memory and 2 GB for macOS and your apps. Long contexts need more.
Run it
Terminal · Hugging Face CLI$ pip install -U huggingface_hub
$ hf download mlx-community/Octen-Embedding-4B-MLX-4bitMLX builds
1 on mlx-community| Octen-Embedding-4B-MLX-4bit | 4-bit | 2.3 GB | 5 GB | 62 |
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Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.