- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use mlx-community/Falcon3-3B-Instruct-3bit with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline
pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="mlx-community/Falcon3-3B-Instruct-3bit")
messages = [
{"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages) # pip install -U transformers accelerate
# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("mlx-community/Falcon3-3B-Instruct-3bit")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("mlx-community/Falcon3-3B-Instruct-3bit", device_map="auto")
messages = [
{"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
inputs = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
messages,
add_generation_prompt=True,
tokenize=True,
return_dict=True,
return_tensors="pt",
).to(model.device)
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=256)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:])) - MLX
How to use mlx-community/Falcon3-3B-Instruct-3bit with MLX:
# Make sure mlx-lm is installed
# pip install --upgrade mlx-lm
# Generate text with mlx-lm
from mlx_lm import load, generate
model, tokenizer = load("mlx-community/Falcon3-3B-Instruct-3bit")
prompt = "Write a story about Einstein"
messages = [{"role": "user", "content": prompt}]
prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
messages, add_generation_prompt=True
)
text = generate(model, tokenizer, prompt=prompt, verbose=True) - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- LM Studio
- vLLM
How to use mlx-community/Falcon3-3B-Instruct-3bit with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "mlx-community/Falcon3-3B-Instruct-3bit"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{
"model": "mlx-community/Falcon3-3B-Instruct-3bit",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "What is the capital of France?"
}
]
}'Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/mlx-community/Falcon3-3B-Instruct-3bit
- SGLang
How to use mlx-community/Falcon3-3B-Instruct-3bit with SGLang:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install SGLang from pip:
pip install sglang
# Start the SGLang server:
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
--model-path "mlx-community/Falcon3-3B-Instruct-3bit" \
--host 0.0.0.0 \
--port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{
"model": "mlx-community/Falcon3-3B-Instruct-3bit",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "What is the capital of France?"
}
]
}'Use Docker images
docker run --gpus all \
--shm-size 32g \
-p 30000:30000 \
-v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
--env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \
--ipc=host \
lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
--model-path "mlx-community/Falcon3-3B-Instruct-3bit" \
--host 0.0.0.0 \
--port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{
"model": "mlx-community/Falcon3-3B-Instruct-3bit",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "What is the capital of France?"
}
]
}' - MLX LM
How to use mlx-community/Falcon3-3B-Instruct-3bit with MLX LM:
Generate or start a chat session
# Install MLX LM
uv tool install mlx-lm
# Interactive chat REPL
mlx_lm.chat --model "mlx-community/Falcon3-3B-Instruct-3bit"
Run an OpenAI-compatible server
# Install MLX LM
uv tool install mlx-lm
# Start the server
mlx_lm.server --model "mlx-community/Falcon3-3B-Instruct-3bit"
# Calling the OpenAI-compatible server with curl
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{
"model": "mlx-community/Falcon3-3B-Instruct-3bit",
"messages": [
{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}
]
}' - Docker Model Runner
How to use mlx-community/Falcon3-3B-Instruct-3bit with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/mlx-community/Falcon3-3B-Instruct-3bit
- Atomic Chat
