MLX Community · First MLX build 28 Mar 2024
Starling-LM-7B-beta
MLX
Text apache-2.0
A 7.2B parameter text generation model, with 3 MLX builds, from 4-bit to 8-bit.
- Parameters
- 7.2B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 4-bit Starling-LM-7B-beta-4bit
- Memory needed
- 7 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 4.3 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 37 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 7 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/Starling-LM-7B-beta-4bit --prompt "Hello"MLX builds
3 on mlx-community| Starling-LM-7B-beta-4bit | 4-bit | 4.3 GB | 7 GB | 37 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starling-LM-7B-beta-8bit | 8-bit | 7.8 GB | 11 GB | 27 |
| Starling-LM-7B-beta | Unstated | 28.7 GB | 35 GB | 31 |
Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.