5-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
4.0B
Weights (est.)
≈ 2.8 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/Polaris-4B-Preview-5bit --prompt "Hello"
Details
- Base model
- POLARIS-Project/Polaris-4B-Preview (quantized)
- Vendor
- POLARIS-Project
- Task
- Text generation
- Quantisation
- 5-bit
- Licence
- apache-2.0
- Downloads
- 28 in the last 30 days · 140 all time · 0 likes
- Published
- 2025-07-03 · updated 2025-07-03 (1y ago)
- Languages
- en
- Tags
- qwen3
Other MLX builds of POLARIS-Project/Polaris-4B-Preview
| Build | Quantisation | Weights | Mac memory | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Polaris-4B-Preview-4bit | 4-bit | ≈ 2.3 GB | 8 GB+ | 32 |
| Polaris-4B-Preview-5bit (this one) | 5-bit | ≈ 2.8 GB | 8 GB+ | 28 |
| Polaris-4B-Preview-6bit | 6-bit | ≈ 3.3 GB | 8 GB+ | 24 |
| Polaris-4B-Preview-8bit | 8-bit | ≈ 4.3 GB | 8 GB+ | 25 |
| Polaris-4B-Preview-bf16 | bf16 | ≈ 8.0 GB | 16 GB+ | 20 |