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Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-MLX-8bit

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: e73e3fbSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Image text to text model with 4.4B parameters. Safetensors weights, 5.12 GB in all. Published by lmstudio-community under Apache-2.0.

4.4B params5.12GBQwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-MLX-8bitsafetensorspermissive
FactsParams4.4BSize5.12 GBFormatssafetensorsTaskimage text to textLicenseApache-2.0From sourcepermissive
$ fw get lmstudio-community/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-MLX-8bit
# manifest sha256 673bce05d3af… · 5.12 GB · 16 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-MLX-8bit lmstudio-community/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-MLX-8bit
From sourceHosted (signed)lmstudio-community/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-MLX-8bitLast check: 2026-11-15 04:38 UTC
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Overview

Size
5.12 GB
Weights
5.10 GB (safetensors)
Parameters
4.4B
Formats
safetensors
Task
image text to text
License
Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files
16, each with a sha256
Publisher
lmstudio-community
Added
2026-11-15
Section
alt.freeweights.qwen
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Base model: Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct

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💫 Community Model> Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct by Qwen#

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Model creator: Qwen

Original model: Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct

MLX quantization: provided by LM Studio team using mlx_vlm

LM Studio model page: Qwen3-VL

Technical Details#

8-bit quantized version of Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct using MLX, optimized for Apple Silicon.

Special thanks#

🙏 Special thanks to the Apple Machine Learning Research team for creating MLX.

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Files

16 files · 5.12 GBWeights 5.10 GB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
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FileSizesha256
.gitattributes1.57 KB34448b82c17d60fec9b65b1f093c115ddbaadc04beb1b0140b6bfed2e012a930
README.md2.28 KB63699198a16e027111eee0279a63719fcd8396e5be7d2a0d21ed9a572ad90a3a
added_tokens.json707 Bc0284b582e14987fbd3d5a2cb2bd139084371ed9acbae488829a1c900833c680
chat_template.jinja5.29 KB3636d0f0bd6bef02654cdffdc447b79cb2cef8ab02cc75267345946291a489e4
chat_template.json5.50 KB6f8a6a55027e3da5160105556cda5dd69f6423f1c32645f6730d32de7773d0c4
config.json7.14 KBfee774d715db204c712a1a10d4d1d703bce05a401b111659ed5ac3b830beb946
generation_config.json269 B8469742d1fce0de951c8909b26a2c0c0d8490837ce476efb114da9e0cefc4d44
merges.txt1.67 MB8831e4f1a044471340f7c0a83d7bd71306a5b867e95fd870f74d0c5308a904d5
model.safetensors5.10 GB49313ba7eb04191cb38fff8486ff87436d5fb6dcbb3eb9a32df250b0bef7f60d
model.safetensors.index.json64.7 KB58a7841d7bff2548dd91577d216274a83cf1b500bc6a534b809d6c1b1707cf2b
preprocessor_config.json782 B93585062a80db5e8ca038efc7726a3e6411d9db948472d81d63c6303993be8c5
special_tokens_map.json613 B76862e765266b85aa9459767e33cbaf13970f327a0e88d1c65846c2ddd3a1ecd
tokenizer.json11.4 MBaeb13307a71acd8fe81861d94ad54ab689df773318809eed3cbe794b4492dae4
tokenizer_config.json10.9 KB2f5750f0005aa83359351b68f1d6a07bca3caac443d572d39d269f1d437a7fd4
video_preprocessor_config.json817 B59c5c9eb52182eb14c06ffb10ca9effd29adce5f238a95de23ca14a38dbd2cb1
vocab.json2.78 MBca10d7e9fb3ed18575dd1e277a2579c16d108e32f27439684afa0e10b1440910
VersionsEach time the pinned upstream commit or file list changed in this repo. Newest first.
Upstream commitDateContents
e73e3fbb7d pinned now2026-11-15 04:38 UTC16 files · 5.12 GB

Use it

$ fw get lmstudio-community/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-MLX-8bit
# manifest sha256 673bce05d3af… · 5.12 GB · 16 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-MLX-8bit lmstudio-community/Qwen3-VL-4B-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/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-MLX-8bit.json --dir ./Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-MLX-8bit $ python3 fw.py verify ./Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-MLX-8bit ./lmstudio-community__Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-MLX-8bit.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download lmstudio-community/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-MLX-8bit --revision e73e3fbb7dae9f23283989a81a05d327a3958f3f --local-dir ./Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-MLX-8bit
transformersLoad the weights in Python.
import os os.environ["HF_ENDPOINT"] = "https://freeweights.allternit.com" from transformers import AutoModelForImageTextToText, AutoProcessor processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("lmstudio-community/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-MLX-8bit", revision="e73e3fbb7dae9f23283989a81a05d327a3958f3f") model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained("lmstudio-community/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-MLX-8bit", revision="e73e3fbb7dae9f23283989a81a05d327a3958f3f", device_map="auto")
vLLMServe an OpenAI-compatible API.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com vllm serve lmstudio-community/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-MLX-8bit --revision e73e3fbb7dae9f23283989a81a05d327a3958f3f
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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
Text in
README.md
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Provenance

From: lmstudio-community <huggingface.co/lmstudio-community>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject: Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-MLX-8bitDate: 2026-11-15Commit: e73e3fbSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
Upstream
lmstudio-community/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-MLX-8bit
Pinned commit
e73e3fbb7dae9f23283989a81a05d327a3958f3f
Manifest
Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-MLX-8bit.json · .minisig
Manifest sha256
673bce05d3af8fcdc1d697fa471620769b2eb7713101fa68889b146366b13dfd
Signature
minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B
Created
2026-11-15 04:38 UTC
Generator
freeweights-manifest/0.1.0
Takedowns
None.

How to verify

$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/lmstudio-community/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-MLX-8bit.json $ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/lmstudio-community/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-MLX-8bit.json.minisig $ minisign -Vm Qwen3-VL-4B-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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Parent

Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct · this model is a quantization of it

No model in the catalog names this one as its parent.

Get it
Download
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download lmstudio-community/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-MLX-8bit
Open in Freeweights Studio

Pull, verify and run it in the Allternit app on Desktop, web or phone.

Signed manifest
minisign, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B. Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-MLX-8bit.json. Provenance. Takedown history: none.
Source
huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-MLX-8bit

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