# Deepseek Coder

Deepseek Coder is a family of code generating language models based on the
Llama architecture.[^1] The models were trained from scratch on a corpus of 2T
tokens, with a composition of 87% code and 13% natural language containing both
English and Chinese.

### Setup

Install the dependencies:

```
pip install -r requirements.txt
```

Next, download and convert the model. 

```sh
python convert.py --hf-path <path_to_huggingface_model>
```

To generate a 4-bit quantized model, use `-q`. For a full list of options run:

```
python convert.py --help
```

The converter downloads the model from Hugging Face. The default model is
`deepseek-ai/deepseek-coder-6.7b-instruct`. Check out the [Hugging Face
page](https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai) to see a list of available models.

By default, the conversion script will save the converted `weights.npz`,
tokenizer, and `config.json` in the `mlx_model` directory.

> [!TIP] Alternatively, you can also download a few converted checkpoints from
> the [MLX Community](https://huggingface.co/mlx-community) organization on
> Hugging Face and skip the conversion step.

### Run

Once you've converted the weights, you can interact with the Deepseek coder
model:

```
python deepseek_coder.py --prompt "write a quick sort algorithm in python."
```

[^1]: For more information [blog post](https://deepseekcoder.github.io/) by
  DeepSeek AI