alt.freeweights.qwen / Qwen3.5-4B-MLX-8bit
From: lmstudio-community <huggingface.co/lmstudio-community>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject:

Qwen3.5-4B-MLX-8bit

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 59098e5Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Image text to text model with 4.5B parameters. Safetensors weights, 5.16 GB in all. Published by lmstudio-community under Apache-2.0.

4.5B params5.16GBQwen3.5-4B-MLX-8bitsafetensorspermissive
FactsParams4.5BSize5.16 GBFormatssafetensorsTaskimage text to textLicenseApache-2.0From sourcepermissive
$ fw get lmstudio-community/Qwen3.5-4B-MLX-8bit
# manifest sha256 53fabbfaa864… · 5.16 GB · 12 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen3.5-4B-MLX-8bit lmstudio-community/Qwen3.5-4B-MLX-8bit
From sourceHosted (signed)lmstudio-community/Qwen3.5-4B-MLX-8bitLast check: 2026-11-15 04:45 UTC

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Quantized of Qwen3.5-4B.

Works with

Overview

Size
5.16 GB
Weights
5.14 GB (safetensors)
Parameters
4.5B
Formats
safetensors
Task
image text to text
License
Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files
12, each with a sha256
Publisher
lmstudio-community
Added
2026-11-15
Section
alt.freeweights.qwen
Lineage

Original release from the publisher.

Base model: Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B

Where these bytes come from
Publisher at the pinned commit→You

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Sources
BadgeHostLast checkResult
From sourcehuggingface.co2026-11-15 04:45 UTCpassed

Model card

From the publisher at commit 59098e5. Shown as plain text with links; images open at the publisher.

💫 Community Model> Qwen3.5-4B by Qwen#

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Model creator: Qwen

Original model: Qwen3.5-4B

MLX quantization: provided by LM Studio team using mlx_vlm

Technical Details#

8-bit quantized version of Qwen3.5-4B using MLX, optimized for Apple Silicon.

Special thanks#

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

Disclaimers#

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Files

12 files · 5.16 GBWeights 5.14 GB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
Hide all 12 files with their sha256
FileSizesha256
.gitattributes1.57 KB34448b82c17d60fec9b65b1f093c115ddbaadc04beb1b0140b6bfed2e012a930
README.md2.25 KB6e3c5d2488f51c0b46e44f7d75bb1c1c32a3e1dd18f815a133b6d6985d94560f
chat_template.jinja7.76 KBa4aee8afcf2e0711942cf848899be66016f8d14a889ff9ede07bca099c28f715
config.json3.37 KBbf914114dbc055c4355acadea0304ee2cc86e9c1f3ddfe51677c524f22c9d132
model.safetensors5.14 GB7a0a6fe27d2eecb339f9a9416570fa66014639e23b839e7e3e1b9484bad84cdc
model.safetensors.index.json102 KB24e5e2d23c6c29787a4ed61032b082fa37d95e103c90e97372f200617c59d778
preprocessor_config.json390 B27225450ac9c6529872ee1924fcb0962ff5634834f817040f444118116f4e516
processor_config.json991 B45fc17c8dd2474af6b493b52483c26c0584b0082d368c480f9fa611e73070040
tokenizer.json20.0 MB06b9509352d2af50381ab2247e083b80d32d5c0aba91c272ca9ff729b6a0e523
tokenizer_config.json9.19 KBfa71760892f5c601d345e626ebd602055825a50beed7ee160709c95fffa475f0
video_preprocessor_config.json385 B7768af27c1fafa9cc9011c1dc20067e03f8915e03b63504550e11d5066986d13
vocab.json6.72 MBce99b4cb2983d118806ce0a8b777a35b093e2000a503ebde25853284c9dfa003
VersionsEach time the pinned upstream commit or file list changed in this repo. Newest first.
Upstream commitDateContents
59098e5fc5 pinned now2026-11-15 04:45 UTC12 files · 5.16 GB

Use it

$ fw get lmstudio-community/Qwen3.5-4B-MLX-8bit
# manifest sha256 53fabbfaa864… · 5.16 GB · 12 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen3.5-4B-MLX-8bit lmstudio-community/Qwen3.5-4B-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/Qwen3.5-4B-MLX-8bit.json --dir ./Qwen3.5-4B-MLX-8bit $ python3 fw.py verify ./Qwen3.5-4B-MLX-8bit ./lmstudio-community__Qwen3.5-4B-MLX-8bit.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download lmstudio-community/Qwen3.5-4B-MLX-8bit --revision 59098e5fc57e3b33fd18fd3eb6deffa42b320f25 --local-dir ./Qwen3.5-4B-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/Qwen3.5-4B-MLX-8bit", revision="59098e5fc57e3b33fd18fd3eb6deffa42b320f25") model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained("lmstudio-community/Qwen3.5-4B-MLX-8bit", revision="59098e5fc57e3b33fd18fd3eb6deffa42b320f25", device_map="auto")
vLLMServe an OpenAI-compatible API.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com vllm serve lmstudio-community/Qwen3.5-4B-MLX-8bit --revision 59098e5fc57e3b33fd18fd3eb6deffa42b320f25

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
6e3c5d2488f51c0b46e44f7d75bb1c1c32a3e1dd18f815a133b6d6985d94560f
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Provenance

From: lmstudio-community <huggingface.co/lmstudio-community>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject: Qwen3.5-4B-MLX-8bitDate: 2026-11-15Commit: 59098e5Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
Upstream
lmstudio-community/Qwen3.5-4B-MLX-8bit
Pinned commit
59098e5fc57e3b33fd18fd3eb6deffa42b320f25
Manifest
Qwen3.5-4B-MLX-8bit.json · .minisig
Manifest sha256
53fabbfaa8649fef2c1f945ac8f730480868efc22583ebd9633648014dc5e663
Signature
minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B
Created
2026-11-15 04:45 UTC
Generator
freeweights-manifest/0.1.0
Takedowns
None.

How to verify

$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/lmstudio-community/Qwen3.5-4B-MLX-8bit.json $ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/lmstudio-community/Qwen3.5-4B-MLX-8bit.json.minisig $ minisign -Vm Qwen3.5-4B-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

Model tree

Parent

Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B · 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/Qwen3.5-4B-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. Qwen3.5-4B-MLX-8bit.json. Provenance. Takedown history: none.
From: BAAI <huggingface.co/BAAI>Subject: Aquila-VL-2B-llava-qwen
From: Perciqa <huggingface.co/Perciqa>Subject: Aurora-Code-1
From: BAAI <huggingface.co/BAAI>Subject: bge-reasoner-embed-qwen3-8b-0923
From: amazon <huggingface.co/amazon>Subject: BMOJOF-primed-HQwen3-8B-Instruct
From: nbeerbower <huggingface.co/nbeerbower>Subject: Bubba-Qwen3.6-27B-LoRA
From: bartowski <huggingface.co/bartowski>Subject: bytkim_Qwen3.8-27B-pi-GGUF