DeepSeek · First MLX build 20 Jan 2025

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B

MLX Text mit

A 1.8B parameter text generation model from DeepSeek, with 9 MLX builds, from 3-bit to bf16.

Hugging Face
Parameters
1.8B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
4-bit
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B-4bit
Memory needed
4 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
1000 MB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
3.0K
This build, last 30 days
Task
Text generation
Text
MLX builds
9
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-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B-4bit

MLX builds

9 on mlx-community
Click a column to sort. Smallest size and most downloads are highlighted.
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B-3bit 3-bit 778 MB 3 GB 171
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B-4bit 4-bit 1000 MB 4 GB 3.0K
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B-6bit 6-bit 1.4 GB 4 GB 90
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B-8bit 8-bit 1.9 GB 5 GB 757
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B-MLX-Q8 8-bit 1.9 GB 5 GB 59
deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-1.5b Unstated 3.6 GB 6 GB 1.0K
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B-chat-mlx-16bit 16-bit 3.6 GB 6 GB 575
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B-bf16 bf16 3.6 GB 6 GB 70
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B-MLX Unstated — — 0

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