Can you do an optiq quant?

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by codelion - opened

Hello, thanks for the model, is it possible to provide optiq quant from mlx-optiq.com? It will help in efficient inference at apple macs.

Hello, thanks for the model, is it possible to provide optiq quant from mlx-optiq.com? It will help in efficient inference at apple macs.

Thanks for the suggestion, providing optiq quants for efficient inference on Apple Macs is a great idea. The blocker right now is architecture support: mlx-lm doesn't support the Hy3 architecture yet. Since optiq builds on top of mlx-lm for both quantization and inference, supporting it properly would mean adding Hy3 to mlx-lm and registering/adapting it in mlx-optiq. We’ll keep it in mind for the future, as MLX does indeed provide more efficient inference on Macs.

In the meantime, our AngelSlim team is exploring low-bit GGUF compression for on-device deployment. We’ll share updates when there’s more progress :)

https://huggingface.co/avlp12/Hy3-Alis-MLX-Dynamic seems like there are others who have done some quants using it can be a useful reference ot try.

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