llm-jp · First MLX build 16 Jun 2025
llm-jp-3.1-1.8b-instruct4
MLX
Text apache-2.0
A 1.9B parameter text generation model from llm-jp, with 3 MLX builds, from 4-bit to 8-bit.
- Parameters
- 1.9B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 4-bit llm-jp-3.1-1.8b-instruct4-4bit
- Memory needed
- 4 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 1.1 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 89 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Text generation Text
- MLX builds
- 3 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 4 GB at 4-bit
8 GB
16 GB
24 GB
32 GB
64 GB
128 GB
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/llm-jp-3.1-1.8b-instruct4-4bit --prompt "Hello"MLX builds
3 on mlx-community| llm-jp-3.1-1.8b-instruct4-4bit | 4-bit | 1.1 GB | 4 GB | 89 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| llm-jp-3.1-1.8b-instruct4-8bit | 8-bit | 2.0 GB | 5 GB | 51 |
| llm-jp-3.1-1.8b-instruct4 | Unstated | 3.7 GB | 7 GB | 40 |
Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.