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LightOnOCR-3-1B-mlx-4bit

mlx-community/LightOnOCR-3-1B-mlx-4bit
4-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
1.0B
Weights (est.)
≈ 1.2 GB
Mac memory (est.)
8 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-vlm on an Apple silicon Mac:

pip install mlx-vlmpython -m mlx_vlm.generate --model mlx-community/LightOnOCR-3-1B-mlx-4bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"

Details

Base model
lightonai/LightOnOCR-3-1B (quantized)
Vendor
lightonai
Task
Vision + text
Quantisation
4-bit
Licence
apache-2.0
Downloads
189 in the last 30 days · 189 all time · 0 likes
Published
2026-10-17 · updated 2026-10-17 (25d ago)
Tags
mistral3, document-understanding, visual-grounding, vision-language, tables, forms

Other MLX builds of lightonai/LightOnOCR-3-1B

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
LightOnOCR-3-1B-mlx-4bit (this one) 4-bit ≈ 1.2 GB 8 GB+ 189
LightOnOCR-3-1B-mlx-8bit 8-bit ≈ 1.5 GB 8 GB+ 248