prism-ml/Bonsai-27B-mlx-1bit

text-generation model by prism-ml

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Prism ML Website  |  Whitepaper  |  Demo & Examples  |  Discord Full 27B-class reasoning in binary transformer weights — the first 27B-class model to run on a phone Each weight is a single sign bit: 0 maps to −scale, 1 maps to +scale. Every group of 128 weights shares one FP16 scale factor. Effective bits per weight: 1.125 (1 sign bit + 16-bit scale amortized over 128 weights) — an idealized 14.2x reduction vs FP16. This is the most aggressive operating point in the Bonsai 27B family: it minimizes both stored footprint and the weight traffic incurred at every decoding step, and it is what brings a 27B model within a phone's memory budget. The binary build deploys at its native 1-bit g128 layout, so ideal and deployed sizes match. The deployed figure describes the language model alone — the only component that must stay resident for text inference; a…

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  1. 1-bit Bonsai 27B
  2. Highlights
  3. Resources
  4. Model Overview
  5. Weight Representation: Binary g128
  6. Memory Requirement
  7. Shipped Components
  8. MLX Packaging
  9. Peak Memory at Context
  10. Best Practices
  11. Generation Parameters
  12. System Prompt

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prism-ml/Bonsai-27B-mlx-1bit is a text-generation model repository published by prism-ml on Hugging Face. The source reports the mlx library.

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Task
text-generation
Library
mlx
Recent downloads (30 days)
973,798
Cumulative likes
285
Hugging Face trending score
2
Reported safetensors parameters
1,724,001,520
Architecture
Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
License
apache-2.0
Access
Not gated by Hugging Face
Created
2026-07-04T00:24:55.000Z
Last modified
2026-07-14T21:39:12.000Z

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Reported base models: Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B

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