MLX Community · First MLX build 6 Jun 2024

Qwen2-1.5B

MLX Text apache-2.0

A 1.5B parameter text generation model, with 2 MLX builds, from 4-bit to 8-bit.

Hugging Face
Parameters
1.5B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
8-bit
Qwen2-1.5B-8bit
Memory needed
4 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
1.6 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
28
This build, last 30 days
Task
Text generation
Text
MLX builds
2
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/Qwen2-1.5B-8bit --prompt "Hello"

MLX builds

2 on mlx-community
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Qwen2-1.5B-4bit 4-bit 869 MB 3 GB 23
Qwen2-1.5B-8bit 8-bit 1.6 GB 4 GB 28

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