alt.freeweights.smollm / SmolLM3-3B-MLX-4bit

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SmolLM3-3B-MLX-4bit

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 2fd5543Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Text generation model with 3.1B parameters. Safetensors weights, 1.75 GB in all. Published by lmstudio-community under Apache-2.0.

3.1B params

1.75GBSmolLM3-3B-MLX-4bitsafetensorspermissive

FactsParams3.1BSize1.75 GBFormatssafetensorsTasktext generationLicenseApache-2.0From sourcepermissive

$ fw get lmstudio-community/SmolLM3-3B-MLX-4bit
# manifest sha256 c6db2bd5d27c… · 1.75 GB · 10 files
$ fw verify ./SmolLM3-3B-MLX-4bit lmstudio-community/SmolLM3-3B-MLX-4bit

From sourceHosted (signed)lmstudio-community/SmolLM3-3B-MLX-4bitLast check: 2026-11-15 05:21 UTC

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Transformers LocalAI tinygrad gpu-unlock Triton Inference Server BentoML CTranslate2 ExLlamaV2 LitServe

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Overview

Size: 1.75 GB
Weights: 1.73 GB (safetensors)
Parameters: 3.1B
Formats: safetensors
Task: text generation
License: Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files: 10, each with a sha256
Publisher: lmstudio-community
Added: 2026-11-15
Section: alt.freeweights.smollm

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Base model: HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B

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Model card

From the publisher at commit 2fd5543. Shown as plain text with links; images open at the publisher.

💫 Community Model> SmolLM3-3B by HuggingFaceTB#

👾 LM Studio Community models highlights program. Highlighting new & noteworthy models by the community. Join the conversation on Discord.

Model creator: HuggingFaceTB

Original model: SmolLM3-3B

MLX quantization: provided by LM Studio team using mlx_lm

Technical Details#

4-bit quantized version of SmolLM3-3B using MLX, optimized for Apple Silicon.

Special thanks#

🙏 Special thanks to the Apple Machine Learning Research team for creating MLX.

Disclaimers#

LM Studio is not the creator, originator, or owner of any Model featured in the Community Model Program. Each Community Model is created and provided by third parties. LM Studio does not endorse, support, represent or guarantee the completeness, truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any Community Model. You understand that Community Models can produce content that might be offensive, harmful, inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate, or deceptive. Each Community Model is the sole responsibility of the person or entity who originated such Model. LM Studio may not monitor or control the Community Models and cannot, and does not, take responsibility for any such Model. LM Studio disclaims all warranties or guarantees about the accuracy, reliability or benefits of the Community Models. LM Studio further disclaims any warranty that the Community Model will meet your requirements, be secure, uninterrupted or available at any time or location, or error-free, viruses-free, or that any errors will be corrected, or otherwise. You will be solely responsible for any damage resulting from your use of or access to the Community Models, your downloading of any Community Model, or use of any other Community Model provided by or through LM Studio.

Files

10 files · 1.75 GBWeights 1.73 GB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.

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File	Size	sha256
.gitattributes	1.57 KB	34448b82c17d60fec9b65b1f093c115ddbaadc04beb1b0140b6bfed2e012a930
README.md	2.25 KB	868962999509c5201ee1b94b83ce0f517323fee0d50ba35db2a1a2b28870e249
chat_template.jinja	5.45 KB	925f0abda99abd87857b2e49dc2fc0a453a958925c92c34c4fc57eb76c453d9a
config.json	2.39 KB	6d0046fc9fc07c74601b25107b8ff96077dc9c63941492f2856743eabc2a3d99
generation_config.json	182 B	3458d62b3f9654f4bbe285223b0f4e5a1e67cae61c92bb6aeaadf04468bf9e01
model.safetensors	1.73 GB	dd592ed26893f8f7fcc88386ff73c2e6f0ed338c9e73c1a63f972461350334ea
model.safetensors.index.json	58.8 KB	64148ac05ad909f2fc69ec126ef9efe38545512a41914bdba17d1dc29437c19d
special_tokens_map.json	289 B	12403efb970f069ba62ddf3b66166a27254be4a198166b61ad1ee604bd3a4515
tokenizer.json	17.2 MB	7b6a500b662a34eb3f0374db856ba4ad7de4c81040571d78dc0d357238930005
tokenizer_config.json	50.4 KB	16f30338b9776ade6f6f2b09422e650b052b7112f836bc005cd6eac89e6ec0dc

VersionsEach time the pinned upstream commit or file list changed in this repo. Newest first.

Upstream commit	Date	Contents
2fd55434f0 pinned now	2026-11-15 05:21 UTC	10 files · 1.75 GB

Use it

$ fw get lmstudio-community/SmolLM3-3B-MLX-4bit
# manifest sha256 c6db2bd5d27c… · 1.75 GB · 10 files
$ fw verify ./SmolLM3-3B-MLX-4bit lmstudio-community/SmolLM3-3B-MLX-4bit

fw.pyChecks the signature and every sha256, tries each source in order, resumes.

$ python3 fw.py get https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/lmstudio-community/SmolLM3-3B-MLX-4bit.json --dir ./SmolLM3-3B-MLX-4bit
$ python3 fw.py verify ./SmolLM3-3B-MLX-4bit ./lmstudio-community__SmolLM3-3B-MLX-4bit.json

hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.

$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download lmstudio-community/SmolLM3-3B-MLX-4bit --revision 2fd55434f0dcd0f22dada2a1fbf15b3fb8ef0842 --local-dir ./SmolLM3-3B-MLX-4bit

transformersLoad the weights in Python.

import os
os.environ["HF_ENDPOINT"] = "https://freeweights.allternit.com"
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("lmstudio-community/SmolLM3-3B-MLX-4bit", revision="2fd55434f0dcd0f22dada2a1fbf15b3fb8ef0842")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("lmstudio-community/SmolLM3-3B-MLX-4bit", revision="2fd55434f0dcd0f22dada2a1fbf15b3fb8ef0842", device_map="auto")

vLLMServe an OpenAI-compatible API.

$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com vllm serve lmstudio-community/SmolLM3-3B-MLX-4bit --revision 2fd55434f0dcd0f22dada2a1fbf15b3fb8ef0842

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License

Name: Apache License 2.0
Id: Apache-2.0
Class: Permissive
Redistribution: yes
Listing: Hosted (signed)
Decided: License as declared by the publisher. No person read it. 2026-11-15
Text in: README.md
Text sha256: 868962999509c5201ee1b94b83ce0f517323fee0d50ba35db2a1a2b28870e249
Terms gate: No extra terms beyond the license.

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Provenance

From:

lmstudio-community <huggingface.co/lmstudio-community>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.smollmSubject: SmolLM3-3B-MLX-4bitDate: 2026-11-15Commit: 2fd5543Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Upstream: lmstudio-community/SmolLM3-3B-MLX-4bit
Pinned commit: 2fd55434f0dcd0f22dada2a1fbf15b3fb8ef0842
Manifest: SmolLM3-3B-MLX-4bit.json · .minisig
Manifest sha256: c6db2bd5d27c4d100d16033873f920b5b595ee07ae9dfe5e6747b9f99f7d35bf
Signature: minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B
Created: 2026-11-15 05:21 UTC
Generator: freeweights-manifest/0.1.0
Takedowns: None.

How to verify

$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/lmstudio-community/SmolLM3-3B-MLX-4bit.json
$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/lmstudio-community/SmolLM3-3B-MLX-4bit.json.minisig
$ minisign -Vm SmolLM3-3B-MLX-4bit.json -P RWQ7KGqyx4zCLXtUFOqvfv8L3g+8fpKJ1FsuxPyOYMF+4KufbUxKq1Oq
$ shasum -a 256 <file>   # compare with the Files tab

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HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B · this model is a quantization of it

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Download

$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download lmstudio-community/SmolLM3-3B-MLX-4bit

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Pull, verify and run it in the Allternit app on Desktop, web or phone.

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minisign, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B. SmolLM3-3B-MLX-4bit.json. Provenance. Takedown history: none.

Source

huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/SmolLM3-3B-MLX-4bit

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💫 Community Model> SmolLM3-3B by HuggingFaceTB#

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Disclaimers#

Files

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