facebook · First MLX build 7 Jan 2026

Perception-LM-3B

MLX fair-noncommercial-research-license

A 3.5B parameter model from facebook, with one MLX build.

Hugging Face
Parameters
3.5B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
Unstated
Perception-LM-3B
Memory needed
18 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
14.1 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
5
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-3B

MLX builds

1 on mlx-community
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Perception-LM-3B Unstated 14.1 GB 18 GB 5

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