mlx-examples/mixtral

Mixtral 8x7B

Run the Mixtral¹ 8x7B mixture-of-experts (MoE) model in MLX on Apple silicon.

Note, for 16-bit precision this model needs a machine with substantial RAM (~100GB) to run.

Setup

Install Git Large File Storage. For example with Homebrew:

brew install git-lfs

Download the models from HuggingFace:

git clone https://huggingface.co/someone13574/mixtral-8x7b-32kseqlen

After that's done, combine the files:

cd mixtral-8x7b-32kseqlen/
cat consolidated.00.pth-split0 consolidated.00.pth-split1 consolidated.00.pth-split2 consolidated.00.pth-split3 consolidated.00.pth-split4 consolidated.00.pth-split5 consolidated.00.pth-split6 consolidated.00.pth-split7 consolidated.00.pth-split8 consolidated.00.pth-split9 consolidated.00.pth-split10 > consolidated.00.pth

Now from mlx-exmaples/mixtral convert and save the weights as NumPy arrays so MLX can read them:

python convert.py --model_path mixtral-8x7b-32kseqlen/

The conversion script will save the converted weights in the same location.

After that's done, if you want to clean some stuff up:

rm mixtral-8x7b-32kseqlen/*.pth*

Generate

As easy as:

python mixtral.py --model_path mixtral mixtral-8x7b-32kseqlen/

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1. Refer to Mistral's blog post for more details. ↩︎