- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-8bit with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline
pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-8bit") # Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-8bit")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-8bit", device_map="auto") - MLX
How to use mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-8bit with MLX:
# Make sure mlx-lm is installed
# pip install --upgrade mlx-lm
# if on a CUDA device, also pip install mlx[cuda]
# Generate text with mlx-lm
from mlx_lm import load, generate
model, tokenizer = load("mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-8bit")
prompt = "Once upon a time in"
text = generate(model, tokenizer, prompt=prompt, verbose=True) - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- LM Studio
- vLLM
How to use mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-8bit with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-8bit"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/completions" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{
"model": "mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-8bit",
"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
"max_tokens": 512,
"temperature": 0.5
}'Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-8bit
- SGLang
How to use mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-8bit with SGLang:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install SGLang from pip:
pip install sglang
# Start the SGLang server:
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
--model-path "mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-8bit" \
--host 0.0.0.0 \
--port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{
"model": "mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-8bit",
"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
"max_tokens": 512,
"temperature": 0.5
}'Use Docker images
docker run --gpus all \
--shm-size 32g \
-p 30000:30000 \
-v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
--env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \
--ipc=host \
lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
--model-path "mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-8bit" \
--host 0.0.0.0 \
--port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{
"model": "mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-8bit",
"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
"max_tokens": 512,
"temperature": 0.5
}' - MLX LM
How to use mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-8bit with MLX LM:
Generate or start a chat session
# Install MLX LM
uv tool install mlx-lm
# Generate some text
mlx_lm.generate --model "mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-8bit" --prompt "Once upon a time"
- Docker Model Runner
How to use mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-8bit with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-8bit
