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Homunculus-4bit

mlx-community/Homunculus-4bit
4-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
12B
Weights (est.)
≈ 7.0 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/Homunculus-4bit --prompt "Hello"

Details

Base model
arcee-ai/Homunculus (quantized)
Vendor
arcee-ai
Task
Text generation
Quantisation
4-bit
Licence
apache-2.0
Downloads
20 in the last 30 days · 181 all time · 0 likes
Published
2025-06-03 · updated 2025-06-03 (1y ago)
Languages
en
Tags
mistral, distillation, /think, /nothink, reasoning-transfer, arcee-ai

Other MLX builds of arcee-ai/Homunculus

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
Homunculus-4bit (this one) 4-bit ≈ 7.0 GB 16 GB+ 20
Homunculus-6bit 6-bit ≈ 10.1 GB 16 GB+ 22
Homunculus-8bit 8-bit ≈ 13.2 GB 24 GB+ 20
Homunculus-bf16 bf16 ≈ 24.9 GB 32 GB+ 27