alt.freeweights.qwen / Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking-MLX-4bit

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

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 51f2ebeSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Image text to text model. Safetensors weights, 5.78 GB in all. Published by lmstudio-community under Apache-2.0.

qwen

5.78GBQwen3-VL-8B-Thinking-MLX-4bitsafetensorspermissive

FactsParamsnot statedSize5.78 GBFormatssafetensorsTaskimage text to textLicenseApache-2.0From sourcepermissive

$ fw get lmstudio-community/Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking-MLX-4bit
# manifest sha256 f4a38716ecc7… · 5.78 GB · 17 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking-MLX-4bit lmstudio-community/Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking-MLX-4bit

From sourceHosted (signed)lmstudio-community/Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking-MLX-4bitLast check: 2026-11-15 05:08 UTC

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Overview

Size: 5.78 GB
Weights: 5.76 GB (safetensors)
Parameters: not stated
Formats: safetensors
Task: image text to text
License: Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files: 17, each with a sha256
Publisher: lmstudio-community
Added: 2026-11-15
Section: alt.freeweights.qwen

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Base model: Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking

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Model card

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💫 Community Model> Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking by Qwen#

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Model creator: Qwen

Original model: Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking

MLX quantization: provided by LM Studio team using mlx_vlm

LM Studio model page: Qwen3-VL

Technical Details#

4-bit quantized version of Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking 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

17 files · 5.78 GBWeights 5.76 GB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.

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File	Size	sha256
.gitattributes	1.57 KB	34448b82c17d60fec9b65b1f093c115ddbaadc04beb1b0140b6bfed2e012a930
README.md	2.28 KB	28fe4f5f993e2aa2c44fdb849458d2b94c69e2edb2a65422966a386c7f72b3b6
added_tokens.json	707 B	c0284b582e14987fbd3d5a2cb2bd139084371ed9acbae488829a1c900833c680
chat_template.jinja	5.20 KB	36e042fe45641f067b1f2381fcc8955d10d956a3ed333ecdf7f7eb0916f68956
chat_template.json	5.41 KB	7dc0b863a3cf9320e063574e0adb1382a22a089f1eeb8bfbe33cc69c5c2cc1e5
config.json	7.14 KB	e21ca745043d451cc8d520530f1dede24eab748b3ebd498af7918444f6c74ebb
generation_config.json	270 B	fe72e86576da6dc6886b1083d9216296dcfa085e7a86feb3c8888a1faa52e656
merges.txt	1.67 MB	8831e4f1a044471340f7c0a83d7bd71306a5b867e95fd870f74d0c5308a904d5
model-00001-of-00002.safetensors	5.35 GB	56edb9551f8f671f13485c5df840cbb4f6b7d4be6a9a1c897b38b024163b2db1
model-00002-of-00002.safetensors	407 MB	e750560285708db8a2f8edd2c171a63e3bb4328ec9ede883aaf2c8cc339fbe10
model.safetensors.index.json	67.8 KB	520b2e05079402e9468a8701d03d1154d14b2599593afb6effa7fb60c1bff070
preprocessor_config.json	782 B	93585062a80db5e8ca038efc7726a3e6411d9db948472d81d63c6303993be8c5
special_tokens_map.json	613 B	76862e765266b85aa9459767e33cbaf13970f327a0e88d1c65846c2ddd3a1ecd
tokenizer.json	11.4 MB	aeb13307a71acd8fe81861d94ad54ab689df773318809eed3cbe794b4492dae4
tokenizer_config.json	10.9 KB	1c6170b5e6797141d2a8e618f18097a8934f1706d6139f20ffaa1a4ce1953b53
video_preprocessor_config.json	817 B	59c5c9eb52182eb14c06ffb10ca9effd29adce5f238a95de23ca14a38dbd2cb1
vocab.json	2.78 MB	ca10d7e9fb3ed18575dd1e277a2579c16d108e32f27439684afa0e10b1440910

VersionsEach time the pinned upstream commit or file list changed in this repo. Newest first.

Upstream commit	Date	Contents
51f2ebed94 pinned now	2026-11-15 05:08 UTC	17 files · 5.78 GB

Use it

$ fw get lmstudio-community/Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking-MLX-4bit
# manifest sha256 f4a38716ecc7… · 5.78 GB · 17 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking-MLX-4bit lmstudio-community/Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking-MLX-4bit

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-8B-Thinking-MLX-4bit.json --dir ./Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking-MLX-4bit
$ python3 fw.py verify ./Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking-MLX-4bit ./lmstudio-community__Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking-MLX-4bit.json

hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.

$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download lmstudio-community/Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking-MLX-4bit --revision 51f2ebed945e9124130b5dafe33df0ceb2418833 --local-dir ./Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking-MLX-4bit

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-8B-Thinking-MLX-4bit", revision="51f2ebed945e9124130b5dafe33df0ceb2418833")
model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained("lmstudio-community/Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking-MLX-4bit", revision="51f2ebed945e9124130b5dafe33df0ceb2418833", device_map="auto")

vLLMServe an OpenAI-compatible API.

$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com vllm serve lmstudio-community/Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking-MLX-4bit --revision 51f2ebed945e9124130b5dafe33df0ceb2418833

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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
Text sha256: 28fe4f5f993e2aa2c44fdb849458d2b94c69e2edb2a65422966a386c7f72b3b6
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Provenance

From:

lmstudio-community <huggingface.co/lmstudio-community>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject: Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking-MLX-4bitDate: 2026-11-15Commit: 51f2ebeSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Upstream: lmstudio-community/Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking-MLX-4bit
Pinned commit: 51f2ebed945e9124130b5dafe33df0ceb2418833
Manifest: Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking-MLX-4bit.json · .minisig
Manifest sha256: f4a38716ecc7d632a079b1f918d03e5bf37320daa38af7559fcd993bc3b7b467
Signature: minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B
Created: 2026-11-15 05:08 UTC
Generator: freeweights-manifest/0.1.0
Takedowns: None.

How to verify

$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/lmstudio-community/Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking-MLX-4bit.json
$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/lmstudio-community/Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking-MLX-4bit.json.minisig
$ minisign -Vm Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking-MLX-4bit.json -P RWQ7KGqyx4zCLXtUFOqvfv8L3g+8fpKJ1FsuxPyOYMF+4KufbUxKq1Oq
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Download

$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download lmstudio-community/Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking-MLX-4bit

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

Signed manifest

minisign, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B. Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking-MLX-4bit.json. Provenance. Takedown history: none.

Source

huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking-MLX-4bit

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💫 Community Model> Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking by Qwen#

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