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

Qwen3-8B-4bit

Date: 2026-11-14Commit: 545dc42Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Text generation model with 8.2B parameters. Safetensors weights, 4.62 GB in all. Published by mlx-community under Apache-2.0.

8.2B params4.62GBQwen3-8B-4bitsafetensorspermissive
FactsParams8.2BSize4.62 GBFormatssafetensorsTasktext generationLicenseApache-2.0From sourcepermissive
$ fw get mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-4bit
# manifest sha256 2c66264535bd… · 4.62 GB · 11 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen3-8B-4bit mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-4bit
From sourceHosted (signed)mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-4bitLast check: 2026-11-14 21:29 UTC

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Quantized of Qwen3-8B.

Works with

Overview

Size
4.62 GB
Weights
4.61 GB (safetensors)
Parameters
8.2B
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/Qwen3-8B

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

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mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-4bit#

This model mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-4bit was converted to MLX format from Qwen/Qwen3-8B using mlx-lm version 0.24.0.

Use with mlx#

pip install mlx-lm
from mlx_lm import load, generate

model, tokenizer = load("mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-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 · 4.62 GBWeights 4.61 GB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
Hide all 11 files with their sha256
FileSizesha256
.gitattributes1.57 KB34448b82c17d60fec9b65b1f093c115ddbaadc04beb1b0140b6bfed2e012a930
README.md857 Ba0cd248b30da7a23710c9290fe42ca83a84dc06593978877b1e5b32f9bd33aaf
added_tokens.json707 Bc0284b582e14987fbd3d5a2cb2bd139084371ed9acbae488829a1c900833c680
config.json939 Be5485285fd7e289e76e9cffa112f6dc2e3426519082f7db9b69041589f81a218
merges.txt1.67 MB8831e4f1a044471340f7c0a83d7bd71306a5b867e95fd870f74d0c5308a904d5
model.safetensors4.61 GBf2d29621aab300336ad645567ff38c42aac755513006ef4e8a579cf7ef5256d8
model.safetensors.index.json64.1 KB3fb25463b4078b1fc27159daa605190029c2e965f533bf0b1b594f96cbfceb8a
special_tokens_map.json613 B76862e765266b85aa9459767e33cbaf13970f327a0e88d1c65846c2ddd3a1ecd
tokenizer.json11.4 MBaeb13307a71acd8fe81861d94ad54ab689df773318809eed3cbe794b4492dae4
tokenizer_config.json9.71 KB253153d0738ceb4c668d2eff957714dd2bea0b56de772a9fdccd96cbf517e6a0
vocab.json2.78 MBca10d7e9fb3ed18575dd1e277a2579c16d108e32f27439684afa0e10b1440910
VersionsEach time the pinned upstream commit or file list changed in this repo. Newest first.
Upstream commitDateContents
545dc4251c pinned now manifest updated, same commit2026-11-14 21:29 UTC11 files · 4.62 GB
545dc4251c2026-11-14 21:29 UTC11 files · 4.62 GB

Use it

$ fw get mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-4bit
# manifest sha256 2c66264535bd… · 4.62 GB · 11 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen3-8B-4bit mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-4bit
fw.pyChecks the signature and every sha256, tries each source in order, resumes.
$ python3 fw.py get https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-4bit.json --dir ./Qwen3-8B-4bit $ python3 fw.py verify ./Qwen3-8B-4bit ./mlx-community__Qwen3-8B-4bit.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-4bit --revision 545dc4251c05440727734bcd94334791f6ab0192 --local-dir ./Qwen3-8B-4bit
transformersLoad 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/Qwen3-8B-4bit", revision="545dc4251c05440727734bcd94334791f6ab0192") model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-4bit", revision="545dc4251c05440727734bcd94334791f6ab0192", device_map="auto")
vLLMServe an OpenAI-compatible API.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com vllm serve mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-4bit --revision 545dc4251c05440727734bcd94334791f6ab0192

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. 2026-11-14
Text in
README.md
Text sha256
a0cd248b30da7a23710c9290fe42ca83a84dc06593978877b1e5b32f9bd33aaf
Terms gate
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Provenance

From: mlx-community <huggingface.co/mlx-community>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject: Qwen3-8B-4bitDate: 2026-11-14Commit: 545dc42Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
Upstream
mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-4bit
Pinned commit
545dc4251c05440727734bcd94334791f6ab0192
Manifest
Qwen3-8B-4bit.json · .minisig
Manifest sha256
2c66264535bd7b7bdee68ffc4528618e2c052862862b6e263406523b6e1c0cd6
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/Qwen3-8B-4bit.json $ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-4bit.json.minisig $ minisign -Vm Qwen3-8B-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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Parent

Qwen/Qwen3-8B · 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 mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-4bit
Open in Freeweights Studio

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

Signed manifest
minisign, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B. Qwen3-8B-4bit.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