Instructions to use mlx-community/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct-4bit with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- MLX
How to use mlx-community/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct-4bit with MLX:
# Make sure mlx-lm is installed # pip install --upgrade mlx-lm # Generate text with mlx-lm from mlx_lm import load, generate model, tokenizer = load("mlx-community/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct-4bit") prompt = "Write a story about Einstein" messages = [{"role": "user", "content": prompt}] prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template( messages, add_generation_prompt=True ) text = generate(model, tokenizer, prompt=prompt, verbose=True) - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- LM Studio
- Pi
How to use mlx-community/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct-4bit with Pi:
Start the MLX server
# Install MLX LM: uv tool install mlx-lm # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server: mlx_lm.server --model "mlx-community/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct-4bit"
Configure the model in Pi
# Install Pi: npm install -g @mariozechner/pi-coding-agent # Add to ~/.pi/agent/models.json: { "providers": { "mlx-lm": { "baseUrl": "http://localhost:8080/v1", "api": "openai-completions", "apiKey": "none", "models": [ { "id": "mlx-community/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct-4bit" } ] } } }Run Pi
# Start Pi in your project directory: pi
- Hermes Agent new
How to use mlx-community/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct-4bit with Hermes Agent:
Start the MLX server
# Install MLX LM: uv tool install mlx-lm # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server: mlx_lm.server --model "mlx-community/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct-4bit"
Configure Hermes
# Install Hermes: curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash hermes setup # Point Hermes at the local server: hermes config set model.provider custom hermes config set model.base_url http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1 hermes config set model.default mlx-community/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct-4bit
Run Hermes
hermes
- OpenClaw new
How to use mlx-community/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct-4bit with OpenClaw:
Start the MLX server
# Install MLX LM: uv tool install mlx-lm # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server: mlx_lm.server --model "mlx-community/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct-4bit"
Configure OpenClaw
# Install OpenClaw: npm install -g openclaw@latest # Register the local server and set it as the default model: openclaw onboard --non-interactive --mode local \ --auth-choice custom-api-key \ --custom-base-url http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1 \ --custom-model-id "mlx-community/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct-4bit" \ --custom-provider-id mlx-lm \ --custom-compatibility openai \ --custom-text-input \ --accept-risk \ --skip-health
Run OpenClaw
openclaw agent --local --agent main --message "Hello from Hugging Face"
- MLX LM
How to use mlx-community/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct-4bit with MLX LM:
Generate or start a chat session
# Install MLX LM uv tool install mlx-lm # Interactive chat REPL mlx_lm.chat --model "mlx-community/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct-4bit"
Run an OpenAI-compatible server
# Install MLX LM uv tool install mlx-lm # Start the server mlx_lm.server --model "mlx-community/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct-4bit" # Calling the OpenAI-compatible server with curl curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "mlx-community/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct-4bit", "messages": [ {"role": "user", "content": "Hello"} ] }'
| # coding=utf-8 | |
| from typing import Optional | |
| from transformers.configuration_utils import PretrainedConfig | |
| class KimiLinearConfig(PretrainedConfig): | |
| model_type = "kimi_linear" | |
| keys_to_ignore_at_inference = ["past_key_values"] | |
| def __init__( | |
| self, | |
| model_type="kimi_linear", | |
| vocab_size=163840, | |
| hidden_size=4096, | |
| head_dim=None, | |
| intermediate_size=11008, | |
| num_hidden_layers=32, | |
| num_attention_heads=32, | |
| num_key_value_heads=None, | |
| hidden_act="silu", | |
| initializer_range=0.02, | |
| rms_norm_eps=1e-6, | |
| use_cache=True, | |
| pad_token_id=0, | |
| bos_token_id=1, | |
| eos_token_id=2, | |
| rope_theta=10000.0, | |
| rope_scaling=None, | |
| tie_word_embeddings=False, | |
| moe_intermediate_size: Optional[int] = None, | |
| moe_renormalize: bool = True, | |
| moe_router_activation_func: str = "sigmoid", | |
| num_experts: Optional[int] = None, | |
| num_experts_per_token: Optional[int] = None, | |
| num_shared_experts: int = 0, | |
| routed_scaling_factor: float = 1.0, | |
| first_k_dense_replace: int = 0, | |
| moe_layer_freq: int = 1, | |
| use_grouped_topk: bool = True, | |
| num_expert_group: int = 1, | |
| topk_group: int = 1, | |
| q_lora_rank: Optional[int] = None, | |
| kv_lora_rank: Optional[int] = None, | |
| qk_nope_head_dim: Optional[int] = None, | |
| qk_rope_head_dim: Optional[int] = None, | |
| v_head_dim: Optional[int] = None, | |
| mla_use_nope: Optional[bool] = False, | |
| num_nextn_predict_layers: int = 0, | |
| linear_attn_config: Optional[dict] = None, | |
| **kwargs, | |
| ): | |
| self.model_type = model_type | |
| self.vocab_size = vocab_size | |
| self.hidden_size = hidden_size | |
| self.head_dim = ( | |
| head_dim if head_dim is not None else hidden_size // num_attention_heads | |
| ) | |
| self.intermediate_size = intermediate_size | |
| self.num_hidden_layers = num_hidden_layers | |
| self.num_attention_heads = num_attention_heads | |
| # for backward compatibility | |
| if num_key_value_heads is None: | |
| num_key_value_heads = num_attention_heads | |
| self.num_key_value_heads = num_key_value_heads | |
| self.hidden_act = hidden_act | |
| self.initializer_range = initializer_range | |
| self.rms_norm_eps = rms_norm_eps | |
| self.use_cache = use_cache | |
| self.rope_theta = rope_theta | |
| self.rope_scaling = rope_scaling | |
| self.q_lora_rank = q_lora_rank | |
| self.kv_lora_rank = kv_lora_rank | |
| self.qk_nope_head_dim = qk_nope_head_dim | |
| self.qk_rope_head_dim = qk_rope_head_dim | |
| self.v_head_dim = v_head_dim | |
| self.mla_use_nope = mla_use_nope | |
| # moe config | |
| self.num_experts = num_experts | |
| self.num_experts_per_token = num_experts_per_token | |
| self.moe_renormalize = moe_renormalize | |
| self.num_shared_experts = num_shared_experts | |
| self.routed_scaling_factor = routed_scaling_factor | |
| self.moe_router_activation_func = moe_router_activation_func | |
| assert self.moe_router_activation_func in ("softmax", "sigmoid") | |
| self.moe_intermediate_size = moe_intermediate_size | |
| self.first_k_dense_replace = first_k_dense_replace | |
| self.moe_layer_freq = moe_layer_freq | |
| self.use_grouped_topk = use_grouped_topk | |
| self.num_expert_group = num_expert_group | |
| self.topk_group = topk_group | |
| self.num_nextn_predict_layers = num_nextn_predict_layers | |
| if linear_attn_config is not None: | |
| assert linear_attn_config["kda_layers"] is not None | |
| assert linear_attn_config["full_attn_layers"] is not None | |
| self.linear_attn_config = linear_attn_config | |
| super().__init__( | |
| pad_token_id=pad_token_id, | |
| bos_token_id=bos_token_id, | |
| eos_token_id=eos_token_id, | |
| tie_word_embeddings=tie_word_embeddings, | |
| **kwargs, | |
| ) | |
| def is_mla(self): | |
| return ( | |
| self.q_lora_rank is not None | |
| or self.kv_lora_rank is not None | |
| or self.qk_nope_head_dim is not None | |
| or self.qk_rope_head_dim is not None | |
| or self.v_head_dim is not None | |
| or self.mla_use_nope is True | |
| ) | |
| def is_moe(self): | |
| return self.num_experts is not None | |
| def is_linear_attn(self) -> bool: | |
| return not ( | |
| self.linear_attn_config is None | |
| or ( | |
| isinstance(self.linear_attn_config, dict) | |
| and self.linear_attn_config["kda_layers"] is not None | |
| and len(self.linear_attn_config["kda_layers"]) == 0 | |
| ) | |
| ) | |
| def is_kda_layer(self, layer_idx: int): | |
| return ( | |
| self.linear_attn_config is not None | |
| and (layer_idx + 1) in self.linear_attn_config["kda_layers"] | |
| ) | |