From: <huggingface.co/mlx-community> Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject: Qwen3-1.7B-4bit Date: 2026-11-14Commit: 3b1b176Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓ Text generation model with 1.7B parameters. Safetensors weights, 984 MB in all. Published by mlx-community under Apache-2.0.
1.7B params 984 MB Qwen3-1.7B-4bit safetensors permissive Facts Params 1.7B Size 984 MB Formats safetensors Task text generation License Apache-2.0 permissive
fw
$ fw get mlx-community/Qwen3-1.7B-4bit
# manifest sha256 0be8ab00c0c6… · 984 MB · 11 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen3-1.7B-4bit mlx-community/Qwen3-1.7B-4bitHosted (signed) mlx-community/Qwen3-1.7B-4bit Last check: 2026-11-14 21:29 UTC
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Size 984 MB
Weights 968 MB (safetensors)
Parameters 1.7B
Formats safetensors
Task text generation
License Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files 11, each with a sha256
Publisher mlx-community
Added 2026-11-14
Section alt.freeweights.qwen Lineage
Original release from the publisher.
Base model: Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B
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This model mlx-community/Qwen3-1.7B-4bit was converted to MLX format from Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B using mlx-lm version 0.24.0 .
Use with mlx#
from mlx_lm import load, generate
model, tokenizer = load("mlx-community/Qwen3-1.7B-4bit")
prompt = "hello"
if tokenizer.chat_template is not None:
messages = [{"role": "user", "content": prompt}]
prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
messages, add_generation_prompt=True
)
response = generate(model, tokenizer, prompt=prompt, verbose=True) Files 11 files · 984 MB Weights 968 MB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
Hide all 11 files with their sha256 File Size sha256 .gitattributes 1.57 KB 34448b82c17d60fec9b65b1f093c115ddbaadc04beb1b0140b6bfed2e012a930 README.md 873 B 26afc7609fa8dce8a0763b115ce95017763e45c0aaa92ac38911363f4fc1c16b added_tokens.json 707 B c0284b582e14987fbd3d5a2cb2bd139084371ed9acbae488829a1c900833c680 config.json 937 B 507a6701220524eb8b283425bf0856a9ae4f21f4052e563896ddd668994b1dc7 merges.txt 1.67 MB 8831e4f1a044471340f7c0a83d7bd71306a5b867e95fd870f74d0c5308a904d5 model.safetensors 968 MB 0e86d9677e519323849eac1bc272caae88567a481ff188c431f70be543d9995f model.safetensors.index.json 49.7 KB 1e3058d4ba4b04e4de35b74467725cbef90ff022198404218e48f21adc9cfa15 special_tokens_map.json 613 B 76862e765266b85aa9459767e33cbaf13970f327a0e88d1c65846c2ddd3a1ecd tokenizer.json 11.4 MB aeb13307a71acd8fe81861d94ad54ab689df773318809eed3cbe794b4492dae4 tokenizer_config.json 9.71 KB 253153d0738ceb4c668d2eff957714dd2bea0b56de772a9fdccd96cbf517e6a0 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 3b1b1768f8 pinned now manifest updated, same commit 2026-11-14 21:29 UTC 11 files · 984 MB 3b1b1768f8 2026-11-14 21:29 UTC 11 files · 984 MB
Use it fw
$ fw get mlx-community/Qwen3-1.7B-4bit
# manifest sha256 0be8ab00c0c6… · 984 MB · 11 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen3-1.7B-4bit mlx-community/Qwen3-1.7B-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/Qwen3-1.7B-4bit.json --dir ./Qwen3-1.7B-4bit
$ python3 fw.py verify ./Qwen3-1.7B-4bit ./mlx-community__Qwen3-1.7B-4bit.jsonhf The Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT =https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download mlx-community/Qwen3-1.7B-4bit --revision 3b1b1768f8f8cf8351c712464f906e86c2b8269e --local-dir ./Qwen3-1.7B-4bittransformers Load the weights in Python.
import os
os.environ["HF_ENDPOINT" ] = "https://freeweights.allternit.com"
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("mlx-community/Qwen3-1.7B-4bit", revision="3b1b1768f8f8cf8351c712464f906e86c2b8269e")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("mlx-community/Qwen3-1.7B-4bit", revision="3b1b1768f8f8cf8351c712464f906e86c2b8269e", device_map="auto")vLLM Serve an OpenAI-compatible API.
$ HF_ENDPOINT =https://freeweights.allternit.com vllm serve mlx-community/Qwen3-1.7B-4bit --revision 3b1b1768f8f8cf8351c712464f906e86c2b8269eLicense 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. 2026-11-14 Text in README.md Text sha256 26afc7609fa8dce8a0763b115ce95017763e45c0aaa92ac38911363f4fc1c16b 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: Qwen3-1.7B-4bit Date: 2026-11-14Commit: 3b1b176Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓ Upstream mlx-community/Qwen3-1.7B-4bit Pinned commit 3b1b1768f8f8cf8351c712464f906e86c2b8269e Manifest Qwen3-1.7B-4bit.json · .minisig Manifest sha256 0be8ab00c0c69b52aa82750a7f32496bd29f06754a11c561bcc5b480d134c49a Signature minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B Created 2026-11-14 21:29 UTC Generator freeweights-manifest/0.1.0 Takedowns None. How to verify
$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/Qwen3-1.7B-4bit.json
$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/Qwen3-1.7B-4bit.json.minisig
$ minisign -Vm Qwen3-1.7B-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/Qwen3-1.7B-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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