From: <huggingface.co/mlx-community> Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject: Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-4bit Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 01af461Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓ Image text to text model with 2.2B parameters. Safetensors weights, 1.26 GB in all. Published by mlx-community under Apache-2.0.
2.2B params 1.26 GB Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-4bit safetensors permissive Facts Params 2.2B Size 1.26 GB Formats safetensors Task image text to text License Apache-2.0 permissive
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$ fw get mlx-community/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-4bit
# manifest sha256 4922ce894fe3… · 1.26 GB · 13 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-4bit mlx-community/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-4bitHosted (signed) mlx-community/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-4bit Last check: 2026-11-15 02:38 UTC
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Size 1.26 GB
Weights 1.25 GB (safetensors)
Parameters 2.2B
Formats safetensors
Task image text to text
License Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files 13, each with a sha256
Publisher mlx-community
Added 2026-11-15
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Model card From the publisher at commit
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This model was converted to MLX format from Qwen/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct using mlx-vlm version 0.0.13 . Refer to the original model card for more details on the model.
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pip install -U mlx-vlmpython -m mlx_vlm.generate --model mlx-community/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-4bit --max-tokens 100 --temp 0.0 Files 13 files · 1.26 GB Weights 1.25 GB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
Hide all 13 files with their sha256 File Size sha256 .gitattributes 1.57 KB 34448b82c17d60fec9b65b1f093c115ddbaadc04beb1b0140b6bfed2e012a930 README.md 565 B 14ac3b323646364cdc0fb976e6395933bd6ad89343ff055ef65d97a66154957a added_tokens.json 392 B 7fa54985b58718a8fdb4f4d97484c4bd908db114847675e4bf3afe3e1d5d7bd4 chat_template.json 1.05 KB 94174d7176c52a7192f96fc34eb2cf23c7c2059d63cdbfadca1586ba89731fb7 config.json 1.41 KB 3c6bdaacede67a811e0e122def203d9465301416a3df11835a2f238e1f349b9e merges.txt 1.67 MB 8831e4f1a044471340f7c0a83d7bd71306a5b867e95fd870f74d0c5308a904d5 model.safetensors 1.25 GB 3534d3dcfaacd0cd00e935469bc34b6d692b2ba0749c5d9ee422f3f2175cf992 model.safetensors.index.json 108 KB ddc9492d4ec6dc9031d4f96050be9a233a451a3a0c07720fbbffc0b950e69669 preprocessor_config.json 499 B 56fd296c1d6dc1ae216c84b39b10381784a02ff42db425dbf02683b42a7e3f65 special_tokens_map.json 613 B 76862e765266b85aa9459767e33cbaf13970f327a0e88d1c65846c2ddd3a1ecd tokenizer.json 11.4 MB 091aa7594dc2fcfbfa06b9e3c22a5f0562ac14f30375c13af7309407a0e67b8a tokenizer_config.json 4.30 KB eb3c5a310899d7d65feec0dee4dff9067d7bc4ad2a17e2005bc9163f1ace0531 vocab.json 2.78 MB ca10d7e9fb3ed18575dd1e277a2579c16d108e32f27439684afa0e10b1440910
Versions Each time the pinned upstream commit or file list changed in this repo. Newest first.
Upstream commit Date Contents 01af461cdb pinned now 2026-11-15 02:38 UTC 13 files · 1.26 GB
Use it fw
$ fw get mlx-community/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-4bit
# manifest sha256 4922ce894fe3… · 1.26 GB · 13 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-4bit mlx-community/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-4bitfw.py Checks the signature and every sha256, tries each source in order, resumes.
$ python3 fw.py get https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-4bit.json --dir ./Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-4bit
$ python3 fw.py verify ./Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-4bit ./mlx-community__Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-4bit.jsonhf The Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT =https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download mlx-community/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-4bit --revision 01af461cdb9574acc09084a0ef94e216e142b085 --local-dir ./Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-4bittransformers Load the weights in Python.
import os
os.environ["HF_ENDPOINT" ] = "https://freeweights.allternit.com"
from transformers import AutoModelForImageTextToText, AutoProcessor
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("mlx-community/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-4bit", revision="01af461cdb9574acc09084a0ef94e216e142b085")
model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained("mlx-community/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-4bit", revision="01af461cdb9574acc09084a0ef94e216e142b085", device_map="auto")vLLM Serve an OpenAI-compatible API.
$ HF_ENDPOINT =https://freeweights.allternit.com vllm serve mlx-community/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-4bit --revision 01af461cdb9574acc09084a0ef94e216e142b085License 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 14ac3b323646364cdc0fb976e6395933bd6ad89343ff055ef65d97a66154957a Terms gate No extra terms beyond the license. Read the license text
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Provenance From: <huggingface.co/mlx-community> Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject: Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-4bit Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 01af461Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓ How to verify
$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-4bit.json
$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-4bit.json.minisig
$ minisign -Vm Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-4bit.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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Get it
$ HF_ENDPOINT =https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download mlx-community/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-4bitOpen in Freeweights Studio Pull, verify and run it in the Allternit app on Desktop, web or phone.
2.2B params 4.37 GB Aquila-VL-2B-llava-qwen safetensors permissive Facts Params 2.2B Size 4.37 GB Formats safetensors Task visual question answering License Apache-2.0 permissive flip From: <huggingface.co/BAAI> Subject: Aquila-VL-2B-llava-qwen 34.7B params 69.3 GB Aurora-Code-1 safetensors permissive Facts Params 34.7B Size 69.3 GB Formats safetensors Task text generation License Apache-2.0 permissive flip From: Perciqa <huggingface.co/Perciqa> Subject: Aurora-Code-1 7.6B params 30.6 GB bge-reasoner-embed-qwen3-8b-0923 safetensors permissive Facts Params 7.6B Size 30.6 GB Formats safetensors Task feature extraction License Apache-2.0 permissive flip From: <huggingface.co/BAAI> Subject: bge-reasoner-embed-qwen3-8b-0923 9.3B params 18.5 GB BMOJOF-primed-HQwen3-8B-Instruct safetensors permissive Facts Params 9.3B Size 18.5 GB Formats safetensors Task text generation License Apache-2.0 permissive flip From: amazon <huggingface.co/amazon> Subject: BMOJOF-primed-HQwen3-8B-Instruct qwen 658 MB Bubba-Qwen3.6-27B-LoRA safetensors permissive Facts Params not stated Size 658 MB Formats safetensors Task not tagged License Apache-2.0 permissive flip From: nbeerbower <huggingface.co/nbeerbower> Subject: Bubba-Qwen3.6-27B-LoRA qwen 447 GB bytkim_Qwen3.8-27B-pi-GGUF gguf permissive Facts Params not stated Size 447 GB Formats gguf Task image text to text License Apache-2.0 permissive flip From: bartowski <huggingface.co/bartowski> Subject: bytkim_Qwen3.8-27B-pi-GGUF
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