distilbert · First MLX build 27 Jun 2026
distilgpt2
MLX
Text apache-2.0
A 82M parameter text generation model from distilbert, with one MLX build.
- Parameters
- 82M From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- Unstated distilgpt2
- Memory needed
- 3 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 164 MB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 68 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Text generation Text
- MLX builds
- 1 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 3 GB at Unstated
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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 · mlx-lm$ pip install -U mlx-lm
$ mlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/distilgpt2 --prompt "Hello"MLX builds
1 on mlx-community| distilgpt2 | Unstated | 164 MB | 3 GB | 68 |
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Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.