mlx-vlm

Repository facts

Stars

5,636

Forks

839

Open issues and pull requests

244

Primary language

Python

License

MIT License (MIT)

Owner

Blaizzy · Personal account

Created

Apr 16, 2024

Last push

Oct 18, 2026

Topics

• apple-silicon
• florence2
• idefics
• llava
• llm
• local-ai
• mlx
• molmo
• paligemma
• pixtral
• vision-framework
• vision-language-model
• vision-transformer

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