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From: lmstudio-community <huggingface.co/lmstudio-community>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject:

Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct-MLX-8bit

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 1817cc0Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Text generation model with 494M parameters. Safetensors weights, 541 MB in all. Published by lmstudio-community under Apache-2.0.

494M params541MBQwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct-MLX-8bitsafetensorspermissive
FactsParams494MSize541 MBFormatssafetensorsTasktext generationLicenseApache-2.0From sourcepermissive
$ fw get lmstudio-community/Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct-MLX-8bit
# manifest sha256 420f94384814… · 541 MB · 11 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct-MLX-8bit lmstudio-community/Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct-MLX-8bit
From sourceHosted (signed)lmstudio-community/Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct-MLX-8bitLast check: 2026-11-15 05:07 UTC
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Overview

Size
541 MB
Weights
525 MB (safetensors)
Parameters
494M
Formats
safetensors
Task
text generation
License
Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files
11, each with a sha256
Publisher
lmstudio-community
Added
2026-11-15
Section
alt.freeweights.qwen
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Base model: Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct

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💫 Community Model> Qwen2.5 Coder 0.5B Instruct by Qwen#

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Compatibility: Apple Silicon Macs

Model creator: Qwen

Original model: Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct

MLX quantizations: provided by bartowski from mlx-examples

Technical Details#

Context Support up to 32k tokens

Designed for use with Code Agents

Up to 5.5 trillion training tokens including source code, text-code grounding, and synthetic data

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Files

11 files · 541 MBWeights 525 MB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
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FileSizesha256
.gitattributes1.57 KB34448b82c17d60fec9b65b1f093c115ddbaadc04beb1b0140b6bfed2e012a930
README.md2.38 KB76bbf7bc71fa52f0432b52d87a84b43a6293411824c87b7ae11a021e0f392e9b
added_tokens.json605 B58b54bbe36fc752f79a24a271ef66a0a0830054b4dfad94bde757d851968060b
config.json863 Bc323f0087f8fd638fa083ef64f190944242b161666e39924e5d4824dce8f2fbc
merges.txt1.67 MB8831e4f1a044471340f7c0a83d7bd71306a5b867e95fd870f74d0c5308a904d5
model.safetensors525 MBf458a876c3f3a8601cf3cdcdffe71b642e3265d9c2c9d3a5e39ddc87f0d41a12
model.safetensors.index.json44.2 KBe48752ffebac15ee35d1d86e96c9b87f2efd7783b19ebf82a26955dbd43e0476
special_tokens_map.json613 B76862e765266b85aa9459767e33cbaf13970f327a0e88d1c65846c2ddd3a1ecd
tokenizer.json11.4 MB9c5ae00e602b8860cbd784ba82a8aa14e8feecec692e7076590d014d7b7fdafa
tokenizer_config.json7.31 KB7e88129d9769a0b14b1587a7d5e829fe93ac0e1511636471fdfc0811951418e6
vocab.json2.78 MBca10d7e9fb3ed18575dd1e277a2579c16d108e32f27439684afa0e10b1440910
VersionsEach time the pinned upstream commit or file list changed in this repo. Newest first.
Upstream commitDateContents
1817cc069b pinned now2026-11-15 05:07 UTC11 files · 541 MB

Use it

$ fw get lmstudio-community/Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct-MLX-8bit
# manifest sha256 420f94384814… · 541 MB · 11 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct-MLX-8bit lmstudio-community/Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct-MLX-8bit
fw.pyChecks the signature and every sha256, tries each source in order, resumes.
$ python3 fw.py get https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/lmstudio-community/Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct-MLX-8bit.json --dir ./Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct-MLX-8bit $ python3 fw.py verify ./Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct-MLX-8bit ./lmstudio-community__Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct-MLX-8bit.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download lmstudio-community/Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct-MLX-8bit --revision 1817cc069b09ff3a5d7760f1d4fb293b34863bbf --local-dir ./Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct-MLX-8bit
transformersLoad the weights in Python.
import os os.environ["HF_ENDPOINT"] = "https://freeweights.allternit.com" from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("lmstudio-community/Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct-MLX-8bit", revision="1817cc069b09ff3a5d7760f1d4fb293b34863bbf") model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("lmstudio-community/Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct-MLX-8bit", revision="1817cc069b09ff3a5d7760f1d4fb293b34863bbf", device_map="auto")
vLLMServe an OpenAI-compatible API.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com vllm serve lmstudio-community/Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct-MLX-8bit --revision 1817cc069b09ff3a5d7760f1d4fb293b34863bbf
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License

Name
Apache License 2.0
Id
Apache-2.0
Class
Permissive
Redistribution
yes
Listing
Hosted (signed)
Decided
License as declared by the publisher. No person read it. 2026-11-15
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README.md
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Provenance

From: lmstudio-community <huggingface.co/lmstudio-community>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject: Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct-MLX-8bitDate: 2026-11-15Commit: 1817cc0Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
Upstream
lmstudio-community/Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct-MLX-8bit
Pinned commit
1817cc069b09ff3a5d7760f1d4fb293b34863bbf
Manifest
Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct-MLX-8bit.json · .minisig
Manifest sha256
420f943848149dd2e5ce42a1597dc989e31bb3a3ec0f318a2d4b71bf0d2fe813
Signature
minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B
Created
2026-11-15 05:07 UTC
Generator
freeweights-manifest/0.1.0
Takedowns
None.

How to verify

$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/lmstudio-community/Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct-MLX-8bit.json $ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/lmstudio-community/Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct-MLX-8bit.json.minisig $ minisign -Vm Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct-MLX-8bit.json -P RWQ7KGqyx4zCLXtUFOqvfv8L3g+8fpKJ1FsuxPyOYMF+4KufbUxKq1Oq $ shasum -a 256 <file> # compare with the Files tab

A manifest whose signature fails must be rejected. A file whose size or sha256 does not match must be discarded. Verify a download

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Download
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download lmstudio-community/Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct-MLX-8bit
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Pull, verify and run it in the Allternit app on Desktop, web or phone.

Signed manifest
minisign, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B. Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct-MLX-8bit.json. Provenance. Takedown history: none.
Source
huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct-MLX-8bit

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