What are the hardware requirements for MiniCPM V 4.6 Bf16?

MiniCPM V 4.6 Bf16 requires approximately 2.6 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed MiniCPM V 4.6 Bf16 and how large is it?

MiniCPM V 4.6 Bf16 is developed by mlx-community, a model with 1.3b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate MiniCPM V 4.6 Bf16?

MiniCPM V 4.6 Bf16 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

MiniCPM V 4.6 Bf16 by mlx-community — VRAM 2.6GB

Name: MiniCPM V 4.6 Bf16
Author: mlx-community

MiniCPM V 4.6 Bf16 is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 1.3b LLM, VRAM: 2.6GB, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.26.

Base model:finetune:openbmb/mi... Base model:openbmb/minicpm-v-4... Conversational Image-text-to-text Minicpm-v Minicpmv4 6 Mlx Multimodal On-device model Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/MiniCPM-V-4.6-bf16

MiniCPM V 4.6 Bf16 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	MiniCPM V 4.6 Bf16
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/MiniCPM-V-4.6-bf16
Base Model(s)	openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.6 openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.6
Model Size	1.3b
Required VRAM	2.6 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	minicpmv4_6
Model Files	2.6 GB
Model Architecture	MiniCPMV4_6ForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	5.7.0
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Errors	replace

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