MLX Community · First MLX build 22 Dec 2024

deepseek-vl2-tiny

MLX TextVision deepseek

A 3.4B parameter vision and text model, with 5 MLX builds, from 3-bit to bf16.

Hugging Face
Parameters
3.4B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
4-bit
deepseek-vl2-tiny-4bit
Memory needed
5 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
2.1 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
170
This build, last 30 days
Task
Vision and text
Text, Vision
MLX builds
5
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-vl2-tiny-4bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"

MLX builds

5 on mlx-community
Click a column to sort. Smallest size and most downloads are highlighted.
deepseek-vl2-tiny-3bit 3-bit 1.7 GB 4 GB 70
deepseek-vl2-tiny-4bit 4-bit 2.1 GB 5 GB 170
deepseek-vl2-tiny-6bit 6-bit 2.9 GB 6 GB 93
deepseek-vl2-tiny-8bit 8-bit 3.7 GB 7 GB 93
deepseek-vl2-tiny-bf16 bf16 6.7 GB 10 GB 81

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