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Phi-4-mini-instruct-mlx-fp16

mlx-community/Phi-4-mini-instruct-mlx-fp16
Text generation · transformers
fp16 Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
3.8B
Weights (est.)
≈ 7.7 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/Phi-4-mini-instruct-mlx-fp16 --prompt "Hello"

Details

Base model
microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct (finetune) · Phi 4 mini instruct on the radar →
Vendor
Microsoft · Phi
Task
Text generation
Quantisation
fp16
Licence
mit
Downloads
220 in the last 30 days · 836 all time · 1 likes
Published
2026-07-27 · updated 2026-07-27 (3mo ago)
Languages
multilingual, ar, zh, cs, da, nl, en, fi, fr, de, he, hu, it, ja, ko, no, pl, pt, ru, es, sv, th, tr, uk
Tags
phi3, code, mlx-my-repo, custom_code

Other MLX builds of microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
Phi-4-mini-instruct-4bit 4-bit ≈ 2.2 GB 8 GB+ 2.6K
Phi-4-mini-instruct-mlx-4Bit 4-bit ≈ 2.2 GB 8 GB+ 475
Phi-4-mini-instruct-6bit 6-bit ≈ 3.1 GB 8 GB+ 232
Phi-4-mini-instruct-mlx-6Bit 6-bit ≈ 3.1 GB 8 GB+ 136
Phi-4-mini-instruct-8bit 8-bit ≈ 4.1 GB 8 GB+ 758
Phi-4-mini-instruct-mlx-8Bit 8-bit ≈ 4.1 GB 8 GB+ 248
Phi-4-mini-instruct-mlx-fp16 (this one) fp16 ≈ 7.7 GB 16 GB+ 220