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Phi-4-mini-reasoning-6bit

mlx-community/Phi-4-mini-reasoning-6bit
6-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
3.8B
Weights (est.)
≈ 3.1 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/Phi-4-mini-reasoning-6bit --prompt "Hello"

Details

Base model
microsoft/Phi-4-mini-reasoning (quantized) · Phi 4 mini reasoning on the radar →
Vendor
Microsoft · Phi
Task
Text generation
Quantisation
6-bit
Licence
mit
Downloads
68 in the last 30 days · 459 all time · 1 likes
Published
2025-05-01 · updated 2025-05-01 (1y ago)
Languages
en
Tags
phi3, math, code

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

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
Phi-4-mini-reasoning-4bit 4-bit ≈ 2.2 GB 8 GB+ 286
Phi-4-mini-reasoning-6bit (this one) 6-bit ≈ 3.1 GB 8 GB+ 68
Phi-4-mini-reasoning-8bit 8-bit ≈ 4.1 GB 8 GB+ 85
Phi-4-mini-reasoning-bf16 bf16 ≈ 7.7 GB 16 GB+ 77