alt.freeweights.smollm / SmolLM3-3B-MLX-8bit

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SmolLM3-3B-MLX-8bit

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: d187bebSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Text generation model with 3.1B parameters. Safetensors weights, 3.28 GB in all. Published by lmstudio-community under Apache-2.0.

3.1B params

3.28GBSmolLM3-3B-MLX-8bitsafetensorspermissive

FactsParams3.1BSize3.28 GBFormatssafetensorsTasktext generationLicenseApache-2.0From sourcepermissive

$ fw get lmstudio-community/SmolLM3-3B-MLX-8bit
# manifest sha256 8db1ae272ef1… · 3.28 GB · 10 files
$ fw verify ./SmolLM3-3B-MLX-8bit lmstudio-community/SmolLM3-3B-MLX-8bit

From sourceHosted (signed)lmstudio-community/SmolLM3-3B-MLX-8bitLast check: 2026-11-15 05:14 UTC

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vLLM exo Text Generation WebUI

SGLang MLC LLM KTransformers LMCache Xinference LMDeploy mistral.rs Mooncake FlashInfer

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AIBrix fastllm ExLlamaV3

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

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mergekit TensorRT Model Optimizer

LLM Compressor Neural Compressor AutoRound AQLM GPTQModel ONNX Core ML Tools ExecuTorch

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Opik DeepEval Ragas lm-evaluation-harness OpenCompass SWE-bench

simple-evals TruLens HELM

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promptfoo garak Guardrails NeMo Guardrails Giskard DeepTeam AI Fairness 360 Fairlearn Detoxify MCP Scanner AgentDojo ModelScan

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Overview

Size: 3.28 GB
Weights: 3.27 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 d187beb. 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#

8-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 · 3.28 GBWeights 3.27 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	f2305009aac24ab1c09922da6534f4e2727678689c057d39ebe4ac966adf7634
chat_template.jinja	5.45 KB	925f0abda99abd87857b2e49dc2fc0a453a958925c92c34c4fc57eb76c453d9a
config.json	2.39 KB	2d6c68f408ca0fade61bf8cf5f2e83e46a40ed2b69e7325cfa919d95f18a429c
generation_config.json	182 B	3458d62b3f9654f4bbe285223b0f4e5a1e67cae61c92bb6aeaadf04468bf9e01
model.safetensors	3.27 GB	d4a1125c813f131aed2e1ac640581aab10502e42cb6554a2e1bac26021ccea1d
model.safetensors.index.json	58.8 KB	aed423cb7bab04e0cd9a8f0a73b380f6b2316819e8c20dbfb36ae3f8bfa5d759
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
d187bebc6c pinned now	2026-11-15 05:14 UTC	10 files · 3.28 GB

Use it

$ fw get lmstudio-community/SmolLM3-3B-MLX-8bit
# manifest sha256 8db1ae272ef1… · 3.28 GB · 10 files
$ fw verify ./SmolLM3-3B-MLX-8bit lmstudio-community/SmolLM3-3B-MLX-8bit

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-8bit.json --dir ./SmolLM3-3B-MLX-8bit
$ python3 fw.py verify ./SmolLM3-3B-MLX-8bit ./lmstudio-community__SmolLM3-3B-MLX-8bit.json

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

$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download lmstudio-community/SmolLM3-3B-MLX-8bit --revision d187bebc6c297a7203b6ddf7d76754047906fd9c --local-dir ./SmolLM3-3B-MLX-8bit

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-8bit", revision="d187bebc6c297a7203b6ddf7d76754047906fd9c")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("lmstudio-community/SmolLM3-3B-MLX-8bit", revision="d187bebc6c297a7203b6ddf7d76754047906fd9c", device_map="auto")

vLLMServe an OpenAI-compatible API.

$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com vllm serve lmstudio-community/SmolLM3-3B-MLX-8bit --revision d187bebc6c297a7203b6ddf7d76754047906fd9c

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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: f2305009aac24ab1c09922da6534f4e2727678689c057d39ebe4ac966adf7634
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-8bitDate: 2026-11-15Commit: d187bebSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Upstream: lmstudio-community/SmolLM3-3B-MLX-8bit
Pinned commit: d187bebc6c297a7203b6ddf7d76754047906fd9c
Manifest: SmolLM3-3B-MLX-8bit.json · .minisig
Manifest sha256: 8db1ae272ef1a7dd2a36cc502398fa4224f12e83a5e2f55fb00908830cf4de87
Signature: minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B
Created: 2026-11-15 05:14 UTC
Generator: freeweights-manifest/0.1.0
Takedowns: None.

How to verify

$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/lmstudio-community/SmolLM3-3B-MLX-8bit.json
$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/lmstudio-community/SmolLM3-3B-MLX-8bit.json.minisig
$ minisign -Vm SmolLM3-3B-MLX-8bit.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-8bit

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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-8bit.json. Provenance. Takedown history: none.

Source

huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/SmolLM3-3B-MLX-8bit

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SmolLM3-3B-MLX-8bit

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Overview

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💫 Community Model> SmolLM3-3B by HuggingFaceTB#

Technical Details#

Special thanks#

Disclaimers#

Files

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License

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