MLX LM
Run and fine-tune LLMs locally on Apple Silicon with MLX
MLX LM is a Python package from Apple's MLX project for running and fine-tuning large language models efficiently on Apple Silicon. It provides a command-line interface and HTTP server for local text generation entirely on-device.
Key features
- Native Apple Silicon inference
- LoRA fine-tuning
- OpenAI-compatible server
- Model quantization
Strengths
- Released under the MIT license
- Mature project with 7.1k GitHub stars
- Written in Python
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