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CodeLlama-7b-Instruct-hf-6bit-mlx

mlx-community/CodeLlama-7b-Instruct-hf-6bit-mlx
6-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
6.7B
Weights (est.)
≈ 5.5 GB
Mac memory (est.)
16 GB+

Size is estimated from the parameter count and quantisation. Memory allows a fifth extra for context plus 2 GB for the system; long contexts need more.

Run it

With mlx-lm on an Apple silicon Mac:

pip install mlx-lmmlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/CodeLlama-7b-Instruct-hf-6bit-mlx --prompt "Hello"

Details

Base model
codellama/CodeLlama-7b-Instruct-hf (quantized)
Vendor
codellama
Task
Text generation
Quantisation
6-bit
Licence
llama2
Downloads
30 in the last 30 days · 345 all time · 0 likes
Published
2025-04-27 · updated 2025-04-27 (1y ago)
Languages
code
Tags
llama, llama-2

Other MLX builds of codellama/CodeLlama-7b-Instruct-hf

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
CodeLlama-7b-Instruct-hf-4bit-mlx-2 4-bit ≈ 3.8 GB 8 GB+ 44
CodeLlama-7b-Instruct-hf-6bit-mlx (this one) 6-bit ≈ 5.5 GB 16 GB+ 30
CodeLlama-7b-Instruct-hf-8bit-mlx 8-bit ≈ 7.2 GB 16 GB+ 48