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macOS

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brew install mlx-lm

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overview

Package summary

Run LLMs with MLX

Project links

Homepage

Commands and aliases

mlx_lm
mlx_lm.awq
mlx_lm.benchmark
mlx_lm.cache_prompt
mlx_lm.chat
mlx_lm.convert
mlx_lm.dwq
mlx_lm.dynamic_quant
mlx_lm.evaluate
mlx_lm.fuse
mlx_lm.generate
mlx_lm.gptq
mlx_lm.lora
mlx_lm.manage
mlx_lm.perplexity
mlx_lm.server
mlx_lm.share
mlx_lm.upload

history

Project history and usage

MLX LM is the language-model layer built on top of Apple's MLX array framework. The upstream project describes it as a Python package for generating text and fine-tuning large language models on Apple silicon with MLX. It packages common local-LLM workflows into command-line tools and Python APIs: generation, chat, model conversion, quantization, LoRA and full fine-tuning, benchmarking, prompt caching, upload/share flows, and a local server.

Project history

Its ecosystem role is to make MLX usable for Hugging Face-style LLM work without each user wiring model loading, tokenization, generation loops, quantization, and fine-tuning scripts by hand. The README highlights Hugging Face Hub integration, quantizing and uploading models, low-rank and full fine-tuning with quantized models, and distributed inference and fine-tuning through MLX distributed support. The MLX examples repository points users from earlier LLM examples to MLX LM as the more fully featured package.

How it is used

Adoption is tied to the Apple-silicon local-model community. The MLX Community organization on Hugging Face hosts ready-to-use model weights for MLX LM and related MLX projects, and Apple's WWDC material presents MLX LM as the package for running and fine-tuning large language models on Macs. In Homebrew it is a convenience package for users who want the MLX LLM command suite installed as normal CLI tools rather than only through Python packaging.

Sources

security posture

Risk level: orange

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. formula declares a Homebrew service.

Risk classifier

orange risk · medium confidence · infrastructure

Why

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
formula declares a Homebrew service

Signals

metadata:service
text:upload,server

Install behavior

No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.

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executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`mlx_lm`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`mlx_lm.awq`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`mlx_lm.benchmark`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`mlx_lm.cache_prompt`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`mlx_lm.chat`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`mlx_lm.convert`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`mlx_lm.dwq`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`mlx_lm.dynamic_quant`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`mlx_lm.evaluate`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`mlx_lm.fuse`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`mlx_lm.generate`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`mlx_lm.gptq`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`mlx_lm.lora`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`mlx_lm.manage`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`mlx_lm.perplexity`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`mlx_lm.server`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`mlx_lm.share`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`mlx_lm.upload`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-08-03

manager version0.31.3

manager updated2026-06-20

local dataunknown

upstreamnot available

latest detectednot detected

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:mlx-lm
Version	0.31.3
Package manager	Homebrew
Homepage	https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx-lm
Repository	https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx-lm
Last updated	2026-06-20T05:07:43Z
Pulse	updated
Bottle	not recorded
Service	none declared

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combined/mlx-lm.yml

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