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
| 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. | |