Llama-3.1-Swallow-8B-Instruct-v0.5-8bit
mlx-community/Llama-3.1-Swallow-8B-Instruct-v0.5-8bit
Text generation · mlx
8-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
8.0B
Weights (est.)
≈ 8.5 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/Llama-3.1-Swallow-8B-Instruct-v0.5-8bit --prompt "Hello"
Details
- Base model
- tokyotech-llm/Llama-3.1-Swallow-8B-Instruct-v0.5 (quantized)
- Vendor
- tokyotech-llm
- Task
- Text generation
- Quantisation
- 8-bit
- Licence
- llama3.3
- Downloads
- 37 in the last 30 days · 433 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 | 4-bit | ≈ 4.5 GB | 8 GB+ | 134 |
| Llama-3.1-Swallow-8B-Instruct-v0.5-8bit (this one) | 8-bit | ≈ 8.5 GB | 16 GB+ | 37 |
| Llama-3.1-Swallow-8B-Instruct-v0.5 | — | ≈ 16.1 GB | 24 GB+ | 46 |