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DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B (MLX 4-bit)

MLX 4-bit conversion of deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B, repackaged for Apple Silicon. Original weights, original license — see frontmatter above. This repo only changes the on-disk format (safetensors, MLX 4-bit, chat_template.jinja, tokenizer).

About this conversion

Format: MLX 4-bit safetensors (group size 64, symmetric)
Tooling: mlx-lm 0.31.x compatible
Files: model.safetensors shards · config.json · tokenizer · chat_template.jinja
License: inherits from the upstream base model — see YAML license field

Load directly with `mlx-lm`

pip install mlx-lm
python -m mlx_lm.generate \
  --model Outlier-Ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-MLX-4bit \
  --prompt "Hello, world." \
  --max-tokens 256

Or in Python:

from mlx_lm import load, generate
model, tokenizer = load("Outlier-Ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-MLX-4bit")
print(generate(model, tokenizer, prompt="Hello, world.", max_tokens=256))

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License

This conversion preserves the upstream license declared in the frontmatter (mit). Refer to the upstream base model card for the canonical license text and any usage restrictions.