DeepSeek · First MLX build 25 Feb 2025

DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Instruct

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A 16B parameter text generation model from DeepSeek, with 3 MLX builds, from 4-bit to 6-bit.

Hugging Face
Parameters
16B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
4-bit
DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Instruct-4bit
Memory needed
12 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
8.8 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
830
This build, last 30 days
Task
Text generation
Text
MLX builds
3
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 · Hugging Face CLI
$ pip install -U huggingface_hub
$ hf download mlx-community/DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Instruct-4bit

MLX builds

3 on mlx-community
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DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Instruct-4bit 4-bit 8.8 GB 12 GB 830
DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Instruct-4bit-AWQ 4-bit 8.8 GB 12 GB 275
DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Instruct-6bit 6-bit 12.8 GB 17 GB 279

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