Alibaba Qwen · First MLX build 11 Nov 2024

Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B

MLX Text apache-2.0

A 494M parameter text generation model from Alibaba Qwen, with 4 MLX builds, from 4-bit to bf16.

Hugging Face
Parameters
494M
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
4-bit
Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-4bit
Memory needed
3 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
278 MB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
110
This build, last 30 days
Task
Text generation
Text
MLX builds
4
On mlx-community
Devices
Mac
Apple silicon

Memory

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 · mlx-lm
$ pip install -U mlx-lm
$ mlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-4bit --prompt "Hello"

MLX builds

4 on mlx-community
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Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-4bit 4-bit 278 MB 3 GB 110
Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-4bit-gs32 4-bit 278 MB 3 GB 63
Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-8bit 8-bit 525 MB 3 GB 99
Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-bf16 bf16 988 MB 4 GB 86

Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.