MLX Community · First MLX build 25 Sept 2024

Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct

MLX Text llama3.2

A 1.2B parameter text generation model, with 3 MLX builds, from 4-bit to bf16.

Hugging Face
Parameters
1.2B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
4-bit
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-4bit
Memory needed
3 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
695 MB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
50K
This build, last 30 days
Task
Text generation
Text
MLX builds
3
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 · mlx-lm
$ pip install -U mlx-lm
$ mlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-4bit --prompt "Hello"

MLX builds

3 on mlx-community
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Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-4bit 4-bit 695 MB 3 GB 50K
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-8bit 8-bit 1.3 GB 4 GB 2.0K
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-bf16 bf16 2.5 GB 5 GB 2.0K

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