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# MLX Community

A community org for model weights compatible with [mlx-examples](https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx-examples) powered by [MLX](https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx).

These are pre-converted weights and ready to be used in the example scripts.


# Quick start for LLMs

Install `mlx-lm`:

```
pip install mlx-lm
```

You can use `mlx-lm` from the command line. For example:

```
mlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3-4bit --prompt "hello"
```

This will download a Mistral 7B model from the Hugging Face Hub and generate
text using the given prompt. 

For a full list of options run:

```
mlx_lm.generate --help
```

To quantize a model from the command line run:

```
mlx_lm.convert --hf-path mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 -q 
```

For more options run:

```
mlx_lm.convert --help
```

You can upload new models to Hugging Face by specifying `--upload-repo` to
`convert`. For example, to upload a quantized Mistral-7B model to the 
[MLX Hugging Face community](https://huggingface.co/mlx-community) you can do:

```
mlx_lm.convert \
    --hf-path mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 \
    -q \
    --upload-repo mlx-community/my-4bit-mistral
```

For more details on the API checkout the full [README](https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx-examples/tree/main/llms)


### Other Examples:

For more examples, visit the [MLX Examples](https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx-examples) repo. The repo includes examples of:

- Parameter efficient fine tuning with LoRA
- Speech recognition with Whisper
- Image generation with Stable Diffusion

  and many other examples of different machine learning applications and algorithms.