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Llama-3.1-Swallow-8B-Instruct-v0.5-4bit

mlx-community/Llama-3.1-Swallow-8B-Instruct-v0.5-4bit
4-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
8.0B
Weights (est.)
≈ 4.5 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-lm on an Apple silicon Mac:

pip install mlx-lmmlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/Llama-3.1-Swallow-8B-Instruct-v0.5-4bit --prompt "Hello"

Details

Base model
tokyotech-llm/Llama-3.1-Swallow-8B-Instruct-v0.5 (quantized)
Vendor
tokyotech-llm
Task
Text generation
Quantisation
4-bit
Licence
llama3.3
Downloads
134 in the last 30 days · 754 all time · 0 likes
Published
2025-06-25 · updated 2025-06-25 (1y ago)
Languages
en, ja
Tags
llama

Other MLX builds of tokyotech-llm/Llama-3.1-Swallow-8B-Instruct-v0.5

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
Llama-3.1-Swallow-8B-Instruct-v0.5-4bit (this one) 4-bit ≈ 4.5 GB 8 GB+ 134
Llama-3.1-Swallow-8B-Instruct-v0.5-8bit 8-bit ≈ 8.5 GB 16 GB+ 37
Llama-3.1-Swallow-8B-Instruct-v0.5 — ≈ 16.1 GB 24 GB+ 46