Instructions to use gnukeith/Ocelot-1-VL-MLX-4bit with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use gnukeith/Ocelot-1-VL-MLX-4bit with MLX:

# Make sure mlx-vlm is installed
# pip install --upgrade mlx-vlm

from mlx_vlm import load, generate
from mlx_vlm.prompt_utils import apply_chat_template
from mlx_vlm.utils import load_config

# Load the model
model, processor = load("gnukeith/Ocelot-1-VL-MLX-4bit")
config = load_config("gnukeith/Ocelot-1-VL-MLX-4bit")

# Prepare input
image = ["http://images.cocodataset.org/val2017/000000039769.jpg"]
prompt = "Describe this image."

# Apply chat template
formatted_prompt = apply_chat_template(
    processor, config, prompt, num_images=1
)

# Generate output
output = generate(model, processor, formatted_prompt, image)
print(output)

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings
LM Studio

How to use gnukeith/Ocelot-1-VL-MLX-4bit with Pi:

Start the MLX server

# Install MLX LM:
uv tool install mlx-lm
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server:
mlx_lm.server --model "gnukeith/Ocelot-1-VL-MLX-4bit"

Configure the model in Pi

# Install Pi:
npm install -g @mariozechner/pi-coding-agent
# Add to ~/.pi/agent/models.json:
{
  "providers": {
    "mlx-lm": {
      "baseUrl": "http://localhost:8080/v1",
      "api": "openai-completions",
      "apiKey": "none",
      "models": [
        {
          "id": "gnukeith/Ocelot-1-VL-MLX-4bit"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Run Pi

# Start Pi in your project directory:
pi

Hermes Agent new

How to use gnukeith/Ocelot-1-VL-MLX-4bit with Hermes Agent:

Start the MLX server

# Install MLX LM:
uv tool install mlx-lm
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server:
mlx_lm.server --model "gnukeith/Ocelot-1-VL-MLX-4bit"

Configure Hermes

# Install Hermes:
curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash
hermes setup
# Point Hermes at the local server:
hermes config set model.provider custom
hermes config set model.base_url http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1
hermes config set model.default gnukeith/Ocelot-1-VL-MLX-4bit

Run Hermes

hermes

OpenClaw new

How to use gnukeith/Ocelot-1-VL-MLX-4bit with OpenClaw:

Start the MLX server

# Install MLX LM:
uv tool install mlx-lm
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server:
mlx_lm.server --model "gnukeith/Ocelot-1-VL-MLX-4bit"

Configure OpenClaw

# Install OpenClaw:
npm install -g openclaw@latest
# Register the local server and set it as the default model:
openclaw onboard --non-interactive --mode local \
  --auth-choice custom-api-key \
  --custom-base-url http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1 \
  --custom-model-id "gnukeith/Ocelot-1-VL-MLX-4bit" \
  --custom-provider-id mlx-lm \
  --custom-compatibility openai \
  --custom-text-input \
  --accept-risk \
  --skip-health

Run OpenClaw

openclaw agent --local --agent main --message "Hello from Hugging Face"

Ocelot-1-VL MLX 4-bit

Recommended MLX 4-bit, group-size 64 conversion of Ocelot-1-VL, merged into its BF16 Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct base. Effective quantization is 5.577 bits/weight because sensitive and unsupported tensors remain at higher precision.

This model is specialized only for webpage summarization. Follow the strict prompt contract and limitations in the original model card.

pip install 'mlx-vlm @ git+https://github.com/Blaizzy/mlx-vlm.git'
python -m mlx_vlm generate --model . --prompt 'The is the text of a webpage: <page>Page text here</page> Summarise the content between the <page> tags, or if no content is found use the screenshots provided, in the Brave Summary style.' --max-tokens 512

For screenshots, add --image webpage.png and begin the prompt with The following is a screenshot of a webpage:. Converted with MLX-VLM revision 0b1d25e334686bd36dda71b2307d186dbb3e7859. Text and screenshot tests passed. An Apple M4 Pro test used 3.34 GB peak memory and measured 45 prompt tokens/s and 15 generation tokens/s.

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Safetensors

Model size

1B params

Tensor type

BF16

U32

MLX

Hardware compatibility

4-bit

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