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Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-8bit

mlx-community/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-8bit
8-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
3.1B
Weights (est.)
≈ 3.3 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/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-8bit --prompt "Hello"

Details

Base model
Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B (finetune)
Vendor
Qwen
Task
Text generation
Quantisation
8-bit
Licence
qwen-research
Downloads
150 in the last 30 days · 5.1K all time · 0 likes
Published
2024-09-18 · updated 2024-09-18 (2y ago)
Languages
en
Tags
qwen2, chat

Other MLX builds of Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-4bit 4-bit ≈ 1.7 GB 8 GB+ 13K
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-8bit (this one) 8-bit ≈ 3.3 GB 8 GB+ 150
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-bf16 bf16 ≈ 6.2 GB 16 GB+ 115