Image-Text-to-Text
MLX
Safetensors
minimax_m3_vl
multimodal
Mixture of Experts
agent
coding
video
conversational
custom_code
4-bit precision
Instructions to use mlx-community/MiniMax-M3-4bit with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- MLX
How to use mlx-community/MiniMax-M3-4bit 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/MiniMax-M3-4bit") config = load_config("mlx-community/MiniMax-M3-4bit") # 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/MiniMax-M3-4bit 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/MiniMax-M3-4bit"
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/MiniMax-M3-4bit" } ] } } }Run Pi
# Start Pi in your project directory: pi
- Hermes Agent new
How to use mlx-community/MiniMax-M3-4bit 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/MiniMax-M3-4bit"
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/MiniMax-M3-4bit
Run Hermes
hermes
| # Copyright 2023-2024 SGLang Team | |
| # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); | |
| """ | |
| MiniMax VL family HuggingFace-compatible Processor, ImageProcessor, VideoProcessor. | |
| """ | |
| import math | |
| from typing import List, Tuple | |
| import torch | |
| from torchvision.transforms import InterpolationMode | |
| from transformers import BatchFeature | |
| from transformers.image_processing_utils_fast import ( | |
| BaseImageProcessorFast, | |
| group_images_by_shape, | |
| reorder_images, | |
| ) | |
| from transformers.image_utils import PILImageResampling, SizeDict | |
| from transformers.processing_utils import ( | |
| ImagesKwargs, | |
| Unpack, | |
| ) | |
| from transformers.utils import TensorType | |
| MAX_RATIO = 200 | |
| def round_by_factor(number: int, factor: int) -> int: | |
| return round(number / factor) * factor | |
| def ceil_by_factor(number: int, factor: int) -> int: | |
| return math.ceil(number / factor) * factor | |
| def floor_by_factor(number: int, factor: int) -> int: | |
| return math.floor(number / factor) * factor | |
| def smart_resize( | |
| height: int, | |
| width: int, | |
| factor: int = 28, | |
| min_pixels: int = 4 * 28 * 28, | |
| max_pixels: int = 451584, | |
| ) -> tuple[int, int]: | |
| if max(height, width) / min(height, width) > MAX_RATIO: | |
| raise ValueError( | |
| f"absolute aspect ratio must be smaller than {MAX_RATIO}, " | |
| f"got {max(height, width) / min(height, width)}" | |
| ) | |
| h_bar = max(factor, round_by_factor(height, factor)) | |
| w_bar = max(factor, round_by_factor(width, factor)) | |
| if h_bar * w_bar > max_pixels: | |
| beta = math.sqrt((height * width) / max_pixels) | |
| h_bar = floor_by_factor(height / beta, factor) | |
| w_bar = floor_by_factor(width / beta, factor) | |
| elif h_bar * w_bar < min_pixels: | |
| beta = math.sqrt(min_pixels / (height * width)) | |
| h_bar = ceil_by_factor(height * beta, factor) | |
| w_bar = ceil_by_factor(width * beta, factor) | |
| return h_bar, w_bar | |
| # ============================================================================== | |
| # MiniMax M3 VL Image Processor Fast (Fast Mode - Torch based) | |
| # ============================================================================== | |
| class MiniMaxM3VLImageProcessorKwargs(ImagesKwargs, total=False): | |
| patch_size: int | |
| temporal_patch_size: int | |
| merge_size: int | |
| max_pixels: int | |
| class MiniMaxM3VLImageProcessor(BaseImageProcessorFast): | |
| do_resize = True | |
| resample = PILImageResampling.BICUBIC | |
| size = {"height": 672, "width": 672} # required by base class validation, not used as resize bound | |
| default_to_square = False | |
| do_rescale = True | |
| rescale_factor = 1 / 255 | |
| do_normalize = True | |
| image_mean = [0.48145466, 0.4578275, 0.40821073] | |
| image_std = [0.26862954, 0.26130258, 0.27577711] | |
| do_convert_rgb = True | |
| patch_size = 14 | |
| temporal_patch_size = 2 | |
| merge_size = 2 | |
| max_pixels = 451584 # 672*672 | |
| valid_kwargs = MiniMaxM3VLImageProcessorKwargs | |
| model_input_names = ["pixel_values", "image_grid_thw"] | |
| def __init__(self, **kwargs: Unpack[MiniMaxM3VLImageProcessorKwargs]): | |
| super().__init__(**kwargs) | |
| def preprocess( | |
| self, images, **kwargs: Unpack[MiniMaxM3VLImageProcessorKwargs] | |
| ) -> BatchFeature: | |
| return super().preprocess(images, **kwargs) | |
| def _preprocess( | |
| self, | |
| images: List[torch.Tensor], | |
| do_resize: bool, | |
| size: SizeDict, | |
| resample: PILImageResampling | InterpolationMode | int | None, | |
| do_rescale: bool, | |
| rescale_factor: float, | |
| do_normalize: bool, | |
| image_mean: float | List[float] | None, | |
| image_std: float | List[float] | None, | |
| patch_size: int, | |
| temporal_patch_size: int, | |
| merge_size: int, | |
| max_pixels: int, | |
| disable_grouping: bool | None, | |
| return_tensors: str | TensorType | None, | |
| **kwargs, | |
| ) -> BatchFeature: | |
| grouped_images, grouped_images_index = group_images_by_shape( | |
| images, disable_grouping=disable_grouping | |
| ) | |
| resized_images_grouped = {} | |
| factor = patch_size * merge_size | |
| for shape, stacked_images in grouped_images.items(): | |
| height, width = stacked_images.shape[-2:] | |
| if do_resize: | |
| resized_height, resized_width = smart_resize( | |
| height, width, factor=factor, | |
| max_pixels=max_pixels, | |
| ) | |
| stacked_images = self.resize( | |
| stacked_images, | |
| size=SizeDict(height=resized_height, width=resized_width), | |
| resample=resample, | |
| ) | |
| resized_images_grouped[shape] = stacked_images | |
| resized_images = reorder_images(resized_images_grouped, grouped_images_index) | |
| grouped_images, grouped_images_index = group_images_by_shape( | |
| resized_images, disable_grouping=disable_grouping | |
| ) | |
| processed_images_grouped = {} | |
| processed_grids = {} | |
| for shape, stacked_images in grouped_images.items(): | |
| resized_height, resized_width = stacked_images.shape[-2:] | |
| patches = self.rescale_and_normalize( | |
| stacked_images, | |
| do_rescale, | |
| rescale_factor, | |
| do_normalize, | |
| image_mean, | |
| image_std, | |
| ) | |
| if patches.ndim == 4: | |
| patches = patches.unsqueeze(1) | |
| if patches.shape[1] % temporal_patch_size != 0: | |
| repeats = patches[:, -1:].repeat( | |
| 1, | |
| temporal_patch_size - (patches.shape[1] % temporal_patch_size), | |
| 1, | |
| 1, | |
| 1, | |
| ) | |
| patches = torch.cat([patches, repeats], dim=1) | |
| batch_size, grid_t, channel = patches.shape[:3] | |
| grid_t = grid_t // temporal_patch_size | |
| grid_h, grid_w = resized_height // patch_size, resized_width // patch_size | |
| patches = patches.view( | |
| batch_size, | |
| grid_t, | |
| temporal_patch_size, | |
| channel, | |
| grid_h // merge_size, | |
| merge_size, | |
| patch_size, | |
| grid_w // merge_size, | |
| merge_size, | |
| patch_size, | |
| ) | |
| patches = patches.permute(0, 1, 4, 7, 5, 8, 3, 2, 6, 9) | |
| flatten_patches = patches.reshape( | |
| batch_size, | |
| grid_t * grid_h * grid_w, | |
| channel * temporal_patch_size * patch_size * patch_size, | |
| ) | |
| processed_images_grouped[shape] = flatten_patches | |
| processed_grids[shape] = [[grid_t, grid_h, grid_w]] * batch_size | |
| processed_images = reorder_images( | |
| processed_images_grouped, grouped_images_index | |
| ) | |
| processed_grids = reorder_images(processed_grids, grouped_images_index) | |
| pixel_values = torch.cat(processed_images, dim=0) | |
| image_grid_thw = torch.tensor(processed_grids, dtype=torch.long) | |
| return BatchFeature( | |
| data={"pixel_values": pixel_values, "image_grid_thw": image_grid_thw}, | |
| tensor_type=return_tensors, | |
| ) | |
| def get_number_of_image_patches(self, height: int, width: int, images_kwargs=None): | |
| images_kwargs = images_kwargs or {} | |
| patch_size = images_kwargs.get("patch_size", self.patch_size) | |
| merge_size = images_kwargs.get("merge_size", self.merge_size) | |
| max_pixels = images_kwargs.get("max_pixels", self.max_pixels) | |
| resized_height, resized_width = smart_resize( | |
| height, width, factor=patch_size * merge_size, | |
| max_pixels=max_pixels, | |
| ) | |
| grid_h, grid_w = resized_height // patch_size, resized_width // patch_size | |
| return grid_h * grid_w | |