Llama 3.2 3B 8bit by mlx-community

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Llama 3.2 3B 8bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 3.4GB, Context: 128K, License: llama3.2, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.15.

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Llama 3.2 3B 8bit Benchmarks

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Llama 3.2 3B 8bit Parameters and Internals

Model Type 
text generation
Additional Notes 
Converted to MLX format from meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B using mlx-lm version 0.17.1.
Supported Languages 
en (full), de (full), fr (full), it (full), pt (full), hi (full), es (full), th (full)
Input Output 
Accepted Modalities:
text
Output Format:
text
LLM NameLlama 3.2 3B 8bit
Repository 🤗https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Llama-3.2-3B-8bit 
Model Size3b
Required VRAM3.4 GB
Updated2026-05-20
Maintainermlx-community
Model Typellama
Model Files  3.4 GB
Supported Languagesen de fr it pt hi es th
Quantization Type8bit
Model ArchitectureLlamaForCausalLM
Licensellama3.2
Context Length131072
Model Max Length131072
Transformers Version4.45.0.dev0
Tokenizer ClassPreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size128256
Torch Data Typebfloat16

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