From: <huggingface.co/mlx-community> Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject: Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-8bit Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 407ad23Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓ Feature extraction model with 596M parameters. Safetensors weights, 649 MB in all. Published by mlx-community under Apache-2.0.
596M params 649 MB Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-8bit safetensors permissive Facts Params 596M Size 649 MB Formats safetensors Task feature extraction License Apache-2.0 permissive
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$ fw get mlx-community/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-8bit
# manifest sha256 b35fcbb219c2… · 649 MB · 15 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-8bit mlx-community/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-8bitHosted (signed) mlx-community/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-8bit Last check: 2026-11-15 02:47 UTC
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Size 649 MB
Weights 633 MB (safetensors)
Parameters 596M
Formats safetensors
Task feature extraction
License Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files 15, each with a sha256
Publisher mlx-community
Added 2026-11-15
Section alt.freeweights.qwen Lineage
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Base model: Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B
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Files 15 files · 649 MB Weights 633 MB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
Hide all 15 files with their sha256 File Size sha256 .gitattributes 1.57 KB 34448b82c17d60fec9b65b1f093c115ddbaadc04beb1b0140b6bfed2e012a930 README.md 493 B 30d2ba25cd223d7c5cd3036808b7c407c150bdc15bd2b079f118ec94d1c2ac57 added_tokens.json 707 B c0284b582e14987fbd3d5a2cb2bd139084371ed9acbae488829a1c900833c680 chat_template.jinja 4.12 KB 87a2728cb8dc9fe424d624542f6060ec05a1d285ebbec578bb078900e33396b5 config.json 857 B 65fb46306262bac47c6a89e5ad8a766c3d40d559057c1931e9c10976266a4fc7 config_sentence_transformers.json 215 B 10667c72ddb772627bf1780cb7f86af8e2ae0032b8c243c731172064105c6961 generation_config.json 117 B 28396d421a2108acce96383f6a7de78008f7f1b17f807958f3c14c51dbfb65fb merges.txt 1.67 MB 8831e4f1a044471340f7c0a83d7bd71306a5b867e95fd870f74d0c5308a904d5 model.safetensors 633 MB fe956e8d346b4f08215a3cfc48a874354f900c20a59e965b75df0d9d77c54b28 model.safetensors.index.json 49.7 KB d387721e7d2dd44152b7dc9fcea8d5647e2692e1c064949c000fabad3292d1d1 modules.json 349 B 84e40c8e006c9b1d6c122e02cba9b02458120b5fb0c87b746c41e0207cf642cf special_tokens_map.json 613 B 76862e765266b85aa9459767e33cbaf13970f327a0e88d1c65846c2ddd3a1ecd tokenizer.json 11.4 MB def76fb086971c7867b829c23a26261e38d9d74e02139253b38aeb9df8b4b50a tokenizer_config.json 5.40 KB 443bfa629eb16387a12edbf92a76f6a6f10b2af3b53d87ba1550adfcf45f7fa0 vocab.json 2.78 MB ca10d7e9fb3ed18575dd1e277a2579c16d108e32f27439684afa0e10b1440910
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Upstream commit Date Contents 407ad2329c pinned now 2026-11-15 02:47 UTC 15 files · 649 MB
Use it fw
$ fw get mlx-community/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-8bit
# manifest sha256 b35fcbb219c2… · 649 MB · 15 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-8bit mlx-community/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-8bitfw.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-Embedding-0.6B-8bit.json --dir ./Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-8bit
$ python3 fw.py verify ./Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-8bit ./mlx-community__Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-8bit.jsonhf The Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT =https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download mlx-community/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-8bit --revision 407ad2329cd30702720aafe83f74a1ba30fdfbca --local-dir ./Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-8bittransformers Load the weights in Python.
import os
os.environ["HF_ENDPOINT" ] = "https://freeweights.allternit.com"
from transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("mlx-community/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-8bit", revision="407ad2329cd30702720aafe83f74a1ba30fdfbca")
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("mlx-community/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-8bit", revision="407ad2329cd30702720aafe83f74a1ba30fdfbca", device_map="auto")sentence-transformers Embed text with sentence-transformers.
import os
os.environ["HF_ENDPOINT" ] = "https://freeweights.allternit.com"
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
model = SentenceTransformer("mlx-community/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-8bit", revision="407ad2329cd30702720aafe83f74a1ba30fdfbca")
vectors = model.encode(["Hello"])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 30d2ba25cd223d7c5cd3036808b7c407c150bdc15bd2b079f118ec94d1c2ac57 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-Embedding-0.6B-8bit Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 407ad23Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓ How to verify
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$ minisign -Vm Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-8bit.json -P RWQ7KGqyx4zCLXtUFOqvfv8L3g+8fpKJ1FsuxPyOYMF+4KufbUxKq1Oq
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$ HF_ENDPOINT =https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download mlx-community/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-8bitOpen 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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