Instructions to use themindstudio/Lens-Turbo-mlx-6bit with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- MLX
How to use themindstudio/Lens-Turbo-mlx-6bit with MLX:
# Download the model from the Hub pip install huggingface_hub[hf_xet] huggingface-cli download --local-dir Lens-Turbo-mlx-6bit themindstudio/Lens-Turbo-mlx-6bit
- Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- LM Studio
Lens-Turbo-MLX-6bit
This repository contains the 6-bit quantized version of Microsoft's Lens-Turbo text-to-image model, optimized for Apple Silicon using MLX.
Lens-Turbo is a fast, high-quality 3.8B parameter text-to-image model.
Model Details
- Original Model: microsoft/Lens-Turbo
- MindCraft Studio: MindCraft Studio Homepage
- Quantization: 6-bit weight-only quantization (
quantize=6) via MLX. - Inference Steps: Recommended 4 steps.
- Guidance Scale: 1.0 (CFG is disabled/forced to 1.0 for the distilled Turbo architecture).
How to Use in MindCraft Studio
- Open MindCraft Studio.
- Go to Settings -> Model Library -> Import Remote Model.
- Point to this directory.
- The model will show up as
Lens(Turbo) and is ready for high-speed generation.
Credits & References
- Original Model: microsoft/Lens-Turbo
- MindCraft Studio: themindstudio.cc/mindcraft
Hardware compatibility
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Model tree for themindstudio/Lens-Turbo-mlx-6bit
Base model
microsoft/Lens-Turbo