Llama 3.2 3B Instruct by mlx-community

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Llama 3.2 3B Instruct is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.5GB, Context: 128K, License: llama3.2, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.28, ELO: 1166.

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Llama 3.2 3B Instruct Benchmarks

nn.n% — How the model compares to the reference models: Anthropic Sonnet 3.5 ("so35"), GPT-4o ("gpt4o") or GPT-4 ("gpt4").

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct Parameters and Internals

LLM NameLlama 3.2 3B Instruct
Repository 🤗https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct 
Base Model(s)  meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct   meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct
Model Size3b
Required VRAM6.5 GB
Updated2026-05-24
Maintainermlx-community
Model Typellama
Instruction-BasedYes
Model Files  5.4 GB: 1-of-2   1.1 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languagesen de fr it pt hi es th
Model ArchitectureLlamaForCausalLM
Licensellama3.2
Context Length131072
Model Max Length131072
Transformers Version4.45.0.dev0
Tokenizer ClassPreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size128256
Torch Data Typebfloat16

Quantized Models of the Llama 3.2 3B Instruct

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Llama 3.2 3B Instruct 4bit31147891 GB
... Summary Llama 3.2 3B Instruct08156 GB
...ry Agent Llama 3.2 3B Instruct0576 GB

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