README.md

---
language:
- en
- ja
library_name: transformers
license: llama3
pipeline_tag: text-generation
tags:
- mlx
model_type: llama
---

# mlx-community/Llama-3-Swallow-8B-v0.1-8bit

The Model [mlx-community/Llama-3-Swallow-8B-v0.1-8bit](https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Llama-3-Swallow-8B-v0.1-8bit) was converted to MLX format from [tokyotech-llm/Llama-3-Swallow-8B-v0.1](https://huggingface.co/tokyotech-llm/Llama-3-Swallow-8B-v0.1) using mlx-lm version **0.18.1**.

## Use with mlx

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

```python
from mlx_lm import load, generate

model, tokenizer = load("mlx-community/Llama-3-Swallow-8B-v0.1-8bit")
response = generate(model, tokenizer, prompt="hello", verbose=True)
```