MLX Community · First MLX build 8 Jun 2024

deepseek-vl-7b-chat

MLX TextVision deepseek

A 7.3B parameter vision and text model, with 2 MLX builds, from 4-bit to 8-bit.

Hugging Face
Parameters
7.3B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
4-bit
deepseek-vl-7b-chat-4bit
Memory needed
7 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
4.2 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
134
This build, last 30 days
Task
Vision and text
Text, Vision
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-vlm
$ pip install -U mlx-vlm
$ python -m mlx_vlm.generate --model mlx-community/deepseek-vl-7b-chat-4bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"

MLX builds

2 on mlx-community
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deepseek-vl-7b-chat-4bit 4-bit 4.2 GB 7 GB 134
deepseek-vl-7b-chat-8bit 8-bit 7.8 GB 11 GB 77

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