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

Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-8bit

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: cb8e0fbSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Image text to text model with 8.3B parameters. Safetensors weights, 8.96 GB in all. Published by mlx-community under Apache-2.0.

8.3B params8.96GBQwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-8bitsafetensorspermissive
FactsParams8.3BSize8.96 GBFormatssafetensorsTaskimage text to textLicenseApache-2.0From sourcepermissive
$ fw get mlx-community/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-8bit
# manifest sha256 ae7da5aaf373… · 8.96 GB · 14 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-8bit mlx-community/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-8bit
From sourceHosted (signed)mlx-community/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-8bitLast check: 2026-11-15 03:26 UTC
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Overview

Size
8.96 GB
Weights
8.94 GB (safetensors)
Parameters
8.3B
Formats
safetensors
Task
image text to text
License
Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files
14, each with a sha256
Publisher
mlx-community
Added
2026-11-15
Section
alt.freeweights.qwen
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Original release from the publisher.

Base model: Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct

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

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mlx-community/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-8bit#

This model was converted to MLX format from Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct using mlx-vlm version 0.1.11. Refer to the original model card for more details on the model.

Use with mlx#

pip install -U mlx-vlm
python -m mlx_vlm.generate --model mlx-community/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-8bit --max-tokens 100 --temp 0.0 --prompt "Describe this image." --image <path_to_image>

Files

14 files · 8.96 GBWeights 8.94 GB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
Hide all 14 files with their sha256
FileSizesha256
.gitattributes1.57 KB34448b82c17d60fec9b65b1f093c115ddbaadc04beb1b0140b6bfed2e012a930
README.md671 B11e8bfef879474beb4adbfa8eeedd30b42967fdc8f4aebebd34da83401e5fa31
added_tokens.json605 B58b54bbe36fc752f79a24a271ef66a0a0830054b4dfad94bde757d851968060b
chat_template.json1.05 KBad60d90252ed0b0705ba14e2d0ad0fec0beac1ea955642b54059b36052d8bc96
config.json1.63 KBed802fcba4a03db8ae8e5856c76d36a3b6847da78b3a7310d11d652a6be42933
merges.txt1.67 MB8831e4f1a044471340f7c0a83d7bd71306a5b867e95fd870f74d0c5308a904d5
model-00001-of-00002.safetensors5.32 GB9244741fb8ca7950103d8e626ef3a72ad431cee0c302a307bf3f959d6c246d1f
model-00002-of-00002.safetensors3.62 GB6248eb7164e746acd31afededa877a95b3c003deb774ecd9a3c7ad0b359bb37e
model.safetensors.index.json130 KBa8e5f69c027908afab16f7b38727ce891a09415135c21dfd1ec68949dc4295f7
preprocessor_config.json350 Bf2058c716eef96ccaed1cc1e2d0c08306b62586d535b28d9d08e691b2fab7ca0
special_tokens_map.json613 B76862e765266b85aa9459767e33cbaf13970f327a0e88d1c65846c2ddd3a1ecd
tokenizer.json11.4 MB9c5ae00e602b8860cbd784ba82a8aa14e8feecec692e7076590d014d7b7fdafa
tokenizer_config.json7.26 KB2f58f4bbd7bbce15d683f525954ef3a92cd82f5e06415a9c513859bf8ab72436
vocab.json2.78 MBca10d7e9fb3ed18575dd1e277a2579c16d108e32f27439684afa0e10b1440910
VersionsEach time the pinned upstream commit or file list changed in this repo. Newest first.
Upstream commitDateContents
cb8e0fbe4a pinned now2026-11-15 03:26 UTC14 files · 8.96 GB

Use it

$ fw get mlx-community/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-8bit
# manifest sha256 ae7da5aaf373… · 8.96 GB · 14 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-8bit mlx-community/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-8bit
fw.pyChecks the signature and every sha256, tries each source in order, resumes.
$ python3 fw.py get https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-8bit.json --dir ./Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-8bit $ python3 fw.py verify ./Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-8bit ./mlx-community__Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-8bit.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download mlx-community/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-8bit --revision cb8e0fbe4aa086c19a3d8aaa43e79919594611f9 --local-dir ./Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-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("mlx-community/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-8bit", revision="cb8e0fbe4aa086c19a3d8aaa43e79919594611f9") model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained("mlx-community/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-8bit", revision="cb8e0fbe4aa086c19a3d8aaa43e79919594611f9", device_map="auto")
vLLMServe an OpenAI-compatible API.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com vllm serve mlx-community/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-8bit --revision cb8e0fbe4aa086c19a3d8aaa43e79919594611f9
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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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11e8bfef879474beb4adbfa8eeedd30b42967fdc8f4aebebd34da83401e5fa31
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Provenance

From: mlx-community <huggingface.co/mlx-community>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject: Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-8bitDate: 2026-11-15Commit: cb8e0fbSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
Upstream
mlx-community/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-8bit
Pinned commit
cb8e0fbe4aa086c19a3d8aaa43e79919594611f9
Manifest
Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-8bit.json · .minisig
Manifest sha256
ae7da5aaf37388d8faec3c3c5bd0527b191e41005bb57755b92bfb024c15457f
Signature
minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B
Created
2026-11-15 03:26 UTC
Generator
freeweights-manifest/0.1.0
Takedowns
None.

How to verify

$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-8bit.json $ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-8bit.json.minisig $ minisign -Vm Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-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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Get it
Download
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download mlx-community/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-8bit
Open in Freeweights Studio

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

Signed manifest
minisign, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B. Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-8bit.json. Provenance. Takedown history: none.
Source
huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-8bit

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