Text Generation
MLX
Safetensors
English
Chinese
llama
01-ai
4-bit precision
4bit
apple-silicon
chat
code
code-generation
coding
conversational
edge-ai
instruct
local-llm
m1
m2
m3
m4
mac
mac-mini
mac-studio
macbook-air
macbook-pro
macos
metal
mlx-community
mlx-lm
no-cloud
offline
on-device
outlier
outlier-app
private
private-ai
quantized
yi
yi-coder
Instructions to use Outlier-Ai/Yi-Coder-9B-Chat-MLX-4bit with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- MLX
How to use Outlier-Ai/Yi-Coder-9B-Chat-MLX-4bit with MLX:
# Make sure mlx-lm is installed # pip install --upgrade mlx-lm # Generate text with mlx-lm from mlx_lm import load, generate model, tokenizer = load("Outlier-Ai/Yi-Coder-9B-Chat-MLX-4bit") prompt = "Write a story about Einstein" messages = [{"role": "user", "content": prompt}] prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template( messages, add_generation_prompt=True ) text = generate(model, tokenizer, prompt=prompt, verbose=True) - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- LM Studio
- MLX LM
How to use Outlier-Ai/Yi-Coder-9B-Chat-MLX-4bit with MLX LM:
Generate or start a chat session
# Install MLX LM uv tool install mlx-lm # Interactive chat REPL mlx_lm.chat --model "Outlier-Ai/Yi-Coder-9B-Chat-MLX-4bit"
Run an OpenAI-compatible server
# Install MLX LM uv tool install mlx-lm # Start the server mlx_lm.server --model "Outlier-Ai/Yi-Coder-9B-Chat-MLX-4bit" # Calling the OpenAI-compatible server with curl curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "Outlier-Ai/Yi-Coder-9B-Chat-MLX-4bit", "messages": [ {"role": "user", "content": "Hello"} ] }'
metadata
license: apache-2.0
pipeline_tag: text-generation
library_name: mlx
base_model: 01-ai/Yi-Coder-9B-Chat
base_model_relation: quantized
quantized_by: Outlier-Ai
tags:
- 01-ai
- 4-bit
- 4bit
- apple-silicon
- chat
- code
- code-generation
- coding
- conversational
- edge-ai
- instruct
- local-llm
- m1
- m2
- m3
- m4
- mac
- mac-mini
- mac-studio
- macbook-air
- macbook-pro
- macos
- metal
- mlx
- mlx-community
- mlx-lm
- no-cloud
- offline
- on-device
- outlier
- outlier-app
- private
- private-ai
- quantized
- safetensors
- text-generation
- yi
- yi-coder
language:
- en
- zh
widget:
- example_title: Python prime check
messages:
- role: user
content: >-
Write a Python function that checks if a number is prime, with a short
docstring and one edge case test.
- example_title: SQL join
messages:
- role: user
content: >-
Write a SQL query that returns the top 10 users by total purchase
value in the last 90 days.
- example_title: Debug refactor
messages:
- role: user
content: Refactor this for readability and flag one bug.
Run this on your Mac with Outlier — a free macOS app for local MLX inference.
Yi-Coder-9B-Chat (MLX 4-bit)
MLX 4-bit conversion of 01-ai/Yi-Coder-9B-Chat. License and base-model fields inherit from the original — see YAML frontmatter above.
Load with mlx-lm
pip install mlx-lm
python -m mlx_lm.generate --model Outlier-Ai/Yi-Coder-9B-Chat-MLX-4bit --prompt "Hello" --max-tokens 256
What is Outlier?
A free macOS app that runs MLX models locally — no cloud, no API keys, no usage caps.
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License
Inherits from upstream (apache-2.0). See base model card.