Text Generation
MLX
Safetensors
qwen3_moe
qwen3-coder
coding
software-engineering
quantized
4bit
apple-silicon
Mixture of Experts
tiny-pickle
conversational
4-bit precision
Instructions to use mlx-community/Tiny-Pickle-v3-Coder-4bit with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- MLX
How to use mlx-community/Tiny-Pickle-v3-Coder-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("mlx-community/Tiny-Pickle-v3-Coder-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
- Pi
How to use mlx-community/Tiny-Pickle-v3-Coder-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/Tiny-Pickle-v3-Coder-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/Tiny-Pickle-v3-Coder-4bit" } ] } } }Run Pi
# Start Pi in your project directory: pi
- OpenClaw new
How to use mlx-community/Tiny-Pickle-v3-Coder-4bit 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/Tiny-Pickle-v3-Coder-4bit"
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/Tiny-Pickle-v3-Coder-4bit" \ --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"
- MLX LM
How to use mlx-community/Tiny-Pickle-v3-Coder-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 "mlx-community/Tiny-Pickle-v3-Coder-4bit"
Run an OpenAI-compatible server
# Install MLX LM uv tool install mlx-lm # Start the server mlx_lm.server --model "mlx-community/Tiny-Pickle-v3-Coder-4bit" # Calling the OpenAI-compatible server with curl curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "mlx-community/Tiny-Pickle-v3-Coder-4bit", "messages": [ {"role": "user", "content": "Hello"} ] }' - Hermes Agent
How to use mlx-community/Tiny-Pickle-v3-Coder-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/Tiny-Pickle-v3-Coder-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/Tiny-Pickle-v3-Coder-4bit
Run Hermes
hermes
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base_model: vsan/tiny-pickle-v3-coder
library_name: mlx
pipeline_tag: text-generation
license: apache-2.0
tags:
- mlx
- qwen3-coder
- coding
- software-engineering
- quantized
- 4bit
- apple-silicon
- moe
- tiny-pickle
---
# Tiny Pickle v3 Coder — MLX 4-bit
Tiny Pickle v3 Coder is a coding-focused adaptation of
`Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct`, converted to MLX and quantized for
Apple Silicon.
## Model lineage
- Base model: `Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct`
- LoRA adapter: `vsan/tiny-pickle-v3-coder-LoRA`
- Merged Safetensors: `vsan/tiny-pickle-v3-coder`
- Quantization: MLX affine 4-bit
- Group size: 64
- Converted directory size: 16G
## Installation
```bash
pip install -U mlx-lm
```
## Interactive chat
```bash
mlx_lm.chat --model mlx-community/Tiny-Pickle-v3-Coder-4bit
```
## Command-line generation
```bash
mlx_lm.generate \
--model mlx-community/Tiny-Pickle-v3-Coder-4bit \
--prompt "Write a tested Python implementation of an LRU cache." \
--max-tokens 800
```
## Intended use
Code generation, debugging, code review, implementation planning, test
generation, and local software-engineering assistance on Apple Silicon.
## Quantization
This release uses MLX 4-bit affine quantization with group size 64.
Quantization reduces storage and unified-memory requirements but may alter
outputs or reduce quality relative to the merged BF16 model.
## Limitations
Tiny Pickle v3 Coder is experimental and has not yet been independently
demonstrated to outperform its base model. Generated code may be incorrect,
insecure, incomplete, or non-functional and must be reviewed and tested.
## Related repositories
- LoRA: https://huggingface.co/vsan/tiny-pickle-v3-coder-LoRA
- Merged Safetensors: https://huggingface.co/vsan/tiny-pickle-v3-coder
- GGUF: https://huggingface.co/vsan/tiny-pickle-v3-coder-GGUF
## Local Performance
The following result is a single local inference measurement, not a standardized benchmark.
| Property | Result |
|---|---:|
| Hardware | Apple M1 Max |
| Unified memory | 64 GB |
| Model format | MLX 4-bit affine |
| Quantization group size | 64 |
| Prompt length | 118 tokens |
| Prompt processing speed | 119.328 tokens/s |
| Generated length | 748 tokens |
| Generation speed | 63.481 tokens/s |
| Peak unified memory | 17.393 GB |
### Test prompt
> You are reviewing a Python async web crawler. Implement a complete, production-quality crawler that uses asyncio and aiohttp; limits global concurrency to 20; limits each domain to 2 concurrent requests; respects robots.txt; retries HTTP 429 and 5xx responses with exponential backoff and jitter; avoids duplicate URLs; normalizes relative links; restricts crawling to the starting domain; supports cancellation; records failures without stopping the crawl; and includes pytest tests using mocked HTTP responses. Return one self-contained Python module followed by the tests.
Results can vary with the macOS version, MLX-LM version, background processes, context length, sampling configuration, and thermal state.
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