MLX Community · First MLX build 19 Feb 2025

paligemma2-3b-mix-224

MLX TextVision gemma

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

Hugging Face
Parameters
3B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
4-bit
paligemma2-3b-mix-224-4bit
Memory needed
5 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
2.3 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
36
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/paligemma2-3b-mix-224-4bit --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.
paligemma2-3b-mix-224-3bit 3-bit 2.0 GB 5 GB 18
paligemma2-3b-mix-224-4bit 4-bit 2.3 GB 5 GB 36
paligemma2-3b-mix-224-6bit 6-bit 3.0 GB 6 GB 18
paligemma2-3b-mix-224-8bit 8-bit 3.6 GB 7 GB 21
paligemma2-3b-mix-224-bf16 bf16 6.1 GB 9 GB 30

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