Blaizzy/mlx-vlm
MLX-VLM is a package for inference and fine-tuning of Vision Language Models (VLMs) on your Mac using MLX.
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 5 days ago, with 198 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #39 in the weekly ranking the week of Apr 5, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides inference and fine-tuning of Vision Language Models and Omni Models on Mac using MLX for multi-modal inputs including images, audio, and video.
- Enables local, efficient multi-modal model deployment with support for multi-image chat, video understanding, and audio processing on Apple Silicon Macs.
- Use for building interactive chatbots that analyze and describe multiple images simultaneously in a single conversation.
- Use for developing applications that generate captions, summaries, or analyses of video content using supported vision-language models.
- Use for fine-tuning vision-language models locally with LoRA and QLoRA techniques to customize model behavior on specific datasets.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
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From the README
MLX-VLM is a package for inference and fine-tuning of Vision Language Models (VLMs) and Omni Models (VLMs with audio and video support) on your Mac using MLX.
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872+174
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270+123
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| Blaizzy/mlx-vlm | 5.7K | — | 60 | 5 days ago |
| Category median | 113.6K | +5.5K | 60 | — |
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