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gemma-3-4b-it-6bit

mlx-community/gemma-3-4b-it-6bit
Vision + text · transformers
6-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
5.0B
Weights (est.)
≈ 4.5 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-vlm on an Apple silicon Mac:

pip install mlx-vlmpython -m mlx_vlm.generate --model mlx-community/gemma-3-4b-it-6bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"

Details

Base model
google/gemma-3-4b-pt (finetune)
Vendor
Google · Gemma
Task
Vision + text
Quantisation
6-bit
Licence
gemma
Downloads
47 in the last 30 days · 613 all time · 0 likes
Published
2025-03-12 · updated 2025-03-19 (1y ago)
Tags
gemma3

Other MLX builds of google/gemma-3-4b-pt

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
gemma-3-4b-it-4bit 4-bit ≈ 3.4 GB 8 GB+ 2.7K
gemma-3-4b-it-6bit (this one) 6-bit ≈ 4.5 GB 8 GB+ 47
gemma-3-4b-it-8bit 8-bit ≈ 5.7 GB 16 GB+ 18K
gemma-3-4b-it-bf16 bf16 ≈ 9.9 GB 16 GB+ 640