MLX Community · First MLX build 20 Aug 2024

Phi-3.5-mini-instruct

MLX Text mit

A 3.8B parameter text generation model, with 4 MLX builds, from 6-bit to bf16.

Hugging Face
Parameters
3.8B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
4-bit
Phi-3.5-mini-instruct-4bit
Memory needed
5 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
2.1 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
5.9K
This build, last 30 days
Task
Text generation
Text
MLX builds
4
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/Phi-3.5-mini-instruct-4bit --prompt "Hello"

MLX builds

4 on mlx-community
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Phi-3.5-mini-instruct-6bit 6-bit 821 MB 3 GB 32
Phi-3.5-mini-instruct-4bit 4-bit 2.1 GB 5 GB 5.9K
Phi-3.5-mini-instruct-8bit 8-bit 4.1 GB 7 GB 90
Phi-3.5-mini-instruct-bf16 bf16 7.6 GB 11 GB 62

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