facebook · First MLX build 7 Jan 2026

Perception-LM-1B

MLX fair-noncommercial-research-license

A 1.5B parameter model from facebook, with one MLX build.

Hugging Face
Parameters
1.5B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
Unstated
Perception-LM-1B
Memory needed
9 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
6.1 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
10
This build, last 30 days
Task
—
MLX builds
1
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/Perception-LM-1B

MLX builds

1 on mlx-community
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Perception-LM-1B Unstated 6.1 GB 9 GB 10

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