Image-Text-to-Text
MLX
Safetensors
inkling_mm_model
inkling
Mixture of Experts
multimodal
text-generation
apple-silicon
conversational
Instructions to use mlx-community/Inkling-Small-mlx-3bit with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- MLX
How to use mlx-community/Inkling-Small-mlx-3bit with MLX:
# Make sure mlx-vlm is installed # pip install --upgrade mlx-vlm from mlx_vlm import load, generate from mlx_vlm.prompt_utils import apply_chat_template from mlx_vlm.utils import load_config # Load the model model, processor = load("mlx-community/Inkling-Small-mlx-3bit") config = load_config("mlx-community/Inkling-Small-mlx-3bit") # Prepare input image = ["http://images.cocodataset.org/val2017/000000039769.jpg"] prompt = "Describe this image." # Apply chat template formatted_prompt = apply_chat_template( processor, config, prompt, num_images=1 ) # Generate output output = generate(model, processor, formatted_prompt, image) print(output) - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- LM Studio
- Pi
How to use mlx-community/Inkling-Small-mlx-3bit with Pi:
Start the MLX server
# Install MLX LM: uv tool install mlx-lm # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server: mlx_lm.server --model "mlx-community/Inkling-Small-mlx-3bit"
Configure the model in Pi
# Install Pi: npm install -g @mariozechner/pi-coding-agent # Add to ~/.pi/agent/models.json: { "providers": { "mlx-lm": { "baseUrl": "http://localhost:8080/v1", "api": "openai-completions", "apiKey": "none", "models": [ { "id": "mlx-community/Inkling-Small-mlx-3bit" } ] } } }Run Pi
# Start Pi in your project directory: pi
- Hermes Agent new
How to use mlx-community/Inkling-Small-mlx-3bit with Hermes Agent:
Start the MLX server
# Install MLX LM: uv tool install mlx-lm # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server: mlx_lm.server --model "mlx-community/Inkling-Small-mlx-3bit"
Configure Hermes
# Install Hermes: curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash hermes setup # Point Hermes at the local server: hermes config set model.provider custom hermes config set model.base_url http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1 hermes config set model.default mlx-community/Inkling-Small-mlx-3bit
Run Hermes
hermes
- OpenClaw new
How to use mlx-community/Inkling-Small-mlx-3bit with OpenClaw:
Start the MLX server
# Install MLX LM: uv tool install mlx-lm # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server: mlx_lm.server --model "mlx-community/Inkling-Small-mlx-3bit"
Configure OpenClaw
# Install OpenClaw: npm install -g openclaw@latest # Register the local server and set it as the default model: openclaw onboard --non-interactive --mode local \ --auth-choice custom-api-key \ --custom-base-url http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1 \ --custom-model-id "mlx-community/Inkling-Small-mlx-3bit" \ --custom-provider-id mlx-lm \ --custom-compatibility openai \ --custom-text-input \ --accept-risk \ --skip-health
Run OpenClaw
openclaw agent --local --agent main --message "Hello from Hugging Face"
| """Inkling decoder layer: attention + MLP, each wrapped by a pre-norm and a | |
| trailing short-convolution, with residual adds. Mirrors ``InklingDecoderLayer``. | |
| """ | |
| from __future__ import annotations | |
| import mlx.core as mx | |
| import mlx.nn as nn | |
| from .attention import Attention | |
| from .common import RMSNorm, ShortConvolution | |
| from .config import TextConfig | |
| from .moe import DenseMLP, MoE | |
| class DecoderLayer(nn.Module): | |
| def __init__(self, config: TextConfig, layer_idx: int): | |
| super().__init__() | |
| self.attn = Attention(config, layer_idx) | |
| self.attn_norm = RMSNorm(config.hidden_size, eps=config.rms_norm_eps) | |
| self.mlp_norm = RMSNorm(config.hidden_size, eps=config.rms_norm_eps) | |
| if config.mlp_layer_types[layer_idx] == "sparse": | |
| self.mlp = MoE(config) | |
| else: | |
| self.mlp = DenseMLP(config) | |
| self.attn_sconv = ShortConvolution(config.hidden_size, config.sconv_kernel_size) | |
| self.mlp_sconv = ShortConvolution(config.hidden_size, config.sconv_kernel_size) | |
| def __call__(self, x, start_pos=0, cache=None, conv_mask=None): | |
| kv = cache.kv if cache is not None else None | |
| residual = x | |
| h = self.attn_norm(x) | |
| h = self.attn( | |
| h, start_pos=start_pos, kv_cache=kv, | |
| k_conv=cache.k_conv if cache is not None else None, | |
| v_conv=cache.v_conv if cache is not None else None, | |
| conv_mask=conv_mask, | |
| ) | |
| h = self.attn_sconv(h, mask=conv_mask, cache=cache.attn_conv if cache is not None else None) | |
| x = residual + h | |
| residual = x | |
| h = self.mlp_norm(x) | |
| h = self.mlp(h) | |
| h = self.mlp_sconv(h, mask=conv_mask, cache=cache.mlp_conv if cache is not None else None) | |
| x = residual + h | |
| return x | |