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DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B

mlx-community/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B
Text generation · transformers
Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
8.0B
Weights (est.)
≈ 16.1 GB
Mac memory (est.)
24 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/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B --prompt "Hello"

Details

Base model
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B (finetune)
Vendor
DeepSeek
Task
Text generation
Quantisation
Not stated
Licence
—
Downloads
197 in the last 30 days · 2.0K all time · 4 likes
Published
2025-01-22 · updated 2025-02-16 (1y ago)
Tags
llama

Other MLX builds of deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-3bit 3-bit ≈ 3.5 GB 8 GB+ 53
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-4bit 4-bit ≈ 4.5 GB 8 GB+ 809
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-4bit-mlx 4-bit ≈ 4.5 GB 8 GB+ 73
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-6bit 6-bit ≈ 6.5 GB 16 GB+ 62
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-8bit 8-bit ≈ 8.5 GB 16 GB+ 142
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-8bit-mlx 8-bit ≈ 8.5 GB 16 GB+ 53
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B (this one) — ≈ 16.1 GB 24 GB+ 197
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-bf16 bf16 ≈ 16.1 GB 24 GB+ 67