metadata
library_name: mlx
pipeline_tag: image-text-to-text
license: other
license_name: bsl-1.1
license_link: LICENSE.md
base_model: moondream/moondream3-preview
tags:
- mlx
- moondream
- moondream3
- vision-language
- image-text-to-text
moondream3-preview-mlx-4bit
A 4-bit MLX quantization of moondream/moondream3-preview for running on Apple Silicon with mlx-vlm.
| Quantization | affine, 4 bits, group size 64 (vision tower included) |
| On-disk size | ~5 GB |
| Peak memory | ~6.5 GB |
| Tokenizer | loaded from moondream/starmie-v1 at runtime (not bundled) |
Usage
pip install mlx-vlm
python -m mlx_vlm.generate \
--model beshkenadze/moondream3-preview-mlx-4bit \
--image path/to/image.jpg \
--prompt "Describe this image." \
--max-tokens 128 --temperature 0.0
License
moondream3 is released under the Business Source License 1.1 (BSL 1.1) — see LICENSE.md. This quantization is a derivative redistribution under the same terms.