Text Generation
MLX
Safetensors
gemma3_text
gemma3
gemma
google
functiongemma
conversational
8-bit precision
Instructions to use mlx-community/functiongemma-270m-it-8bit with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- MLX
How to use mlx-community/functiongemma-270m-it-8bit 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/functiongemma-270m-it-8bit") 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
- Pi
How to use mlx-community/functiongemma-270m-it-8bit with Pi:
Start the MLX server
# Install MLX LM: uv tool install mlx-lm # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server: mlx_lm.server --model "mlx-community/functiongemma-270m-it-8bit"
Configure the model in Pi
# Install Pi: npm install -g @mariozechner/pi-coding-agent # Add to ~/.pi/agent/models.json: { "providers": { "mlx-lm": { "baseUrl": "http://localhost:8080/v1", "api": "openai-completions", "apiKey": "none", "models": [ { "id": "mlx-community/functiongemma-270m-it-8bit" } ] } } }Run Pi
# Start Pi in your project directory: pi
- Hermes Agent new
How to use mlx-community/functiongemma-270m-it-8bit with Hermes Agent:
Start the MLX server
# Install MLX LM: uv tool install mlx-lm # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server: mlx_lm.server --model "mlx-community/functiongemma-270m-it-8bit"
Configure Hermes
# Install Hermes: curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash hermes setup # Point Hermes at the local server: hermes config set model.provider custom hermes config set model.base_url http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1 hermes config set model.default mlx-community/functiongemma-270m-it-8bit
Run Hermes
hermes
- MLX LM
How to use mlx-community/functiongemma-270m-it-8bit 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/functiongemma-270m-it-8bit"
Run an OpenAI-compatible server
# Install MLX LM uv tool install mlx-lm # Start the server mlx_lm.server --model "mlx-community/functiongemma-270m-it-8bit" # 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/functiongemma-270m-it-8bit", "messages": [ {"role": "user", "content": "Hello"} ] }'
metadata
license: gemma
tags:
- gemma3
- gemma
- google
- functiongemma
- mlx
pipeline_tag: text-generation
library_name: mlx
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base_model: google/functiongemma-270m-it
mlx-community/functiongemma-270m-it-8bit
This model mlx-community/functiongemma-270m-it-8bit was converted to MLX format from google/functiongemma-270m-it using mlx-lm version 0.28.4.
Use with mlx
pip install mlx-lm
from mlx_lm import load, generate
model, tokenizer = load("mlx-community/functiongemma-270m-it-8bit")
prompt = "hello"
if tokenizer.chat_template is not None:
messages = [{"role": "user", "content": prompt}]
prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
messages, add_generation_prompt=True
)
response = generate(model, tokenizer, prompt=prompt, verbose=True)