README.md

---
language:
- en
library_name: transformers
license: apache-2.0
tags:
- mlx
---

# mlx-community/SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct-8bit

The Model [mlx-community/SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct-8bit](https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct-8bit) was converted to MLX format from [HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct](https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct) using mlx-lm version **0.15.2**.

## Use with mlx

```bash
pip install mlx-lm
```

```python
from mlx_lm import load, generate

model, tokenizer = load("mlx-community/SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct-8bit")
response = generate(model, tokenizer, prompt="hello", verbose=True)
```