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# mlx-community/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct-6bit
This model was converted to MLX format from [`meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct`]() using mlx-vlm version **0.1.21**.
Refer to the [original model card](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct) for more details on the model.
## Use with mlx

```bash
pip install -U mlx-vlm
```

```bash
python -m mlx_vlm.generate --model mlx-community/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct-6bit --max-tokens 100 --temperature 0.0 --prompt "Describe this image." --image <path_to_image>
```