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Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-4bit

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 2fd8dacSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Image text to text model with 4.4B parameters. Safetensors weights, 3.11 GB in all. Published by mlx-community under Apache-2.0.

4.4B params3.11GBQwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-4bitsafetensorspermissive
FactsParams4.4BSize3.11 GBFormatssafetensorsTaskimage text to textLicenseApache-2.0From sourcepermissive
$ fw get mlx-community/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-4bit
# manifest sha256 1a2c3a463077… · 3.11 GB · 16 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-4bit mlx-community/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-4bit
From sourceHosted (signed)mlx-community/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-4bitLast check: 2026-11-15 02:38 UTC
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Overview

Size
3.11 GB
Weights
3.09 GB (safetensors)
Parameters
4.4B
Formats
safetensors
Task
image text to text
License
Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files
16, each with a sha256
Publisher
mlx-community
Added
2026-11-15
Section
alt.freeweights.qwen
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From the publisher at commit 2fd8dac. Shown as plain text with links; images open at the publisher.

mlx-community/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-4bit#

This model was converted to MLX format from Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct using mlx-vlm version 0.3.4. 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/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-4bit --max-tokens 100 --temperature 0.0 --prompt "Describe this image." --image <path_to_image>

Files

16 files · 3.11 GBWeights 3.09 GB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
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FileSizesha256
.gitattributes1.57 KB34448b82c17d60fec9b65b1f093c115ddbaadc04beb1b0140b6bfed2e012a930
README.md572 Bd0761303276b99006238f4a2c88f153109025c796b5e929145985b05700d1042
added_tokens.json707 Bc0284b582e14987fbd3d5a2cb2bd139084371ed9acbae488829a1c900833c680
chat_template.jinja5.29 KB3636d0f0bd6bef02654cdffdc447b79cb2cef8ab02cc75267345946291a489e4
chat_template.json5.50 KB6f8a6a55027e3da5160105556cda5dd69f6423f1c32645f6730d32de7773d0c4
config.json7.14 KB07406d087dfb8a8849427a4da81bc9edd1dd942e518493629b5a983169b47820
generation_config.json269 B8469742d1fce0de951c8909b26a2c0c0d8490837ce476efb114da9e0cefc4d44
merges.txt1.67 MB8831e4f1a044471340f7c0a83d7bd71306a5b867e95fd870f74d0c5308a904d5
model.safetensors3.09 GB90eeb02604181dbcccd0a30a1f550a4a8928ca7dcbee4aee1449239306cfdfca
model.safetensors.index.json64.7 KB58a7841d7bff2548dd91577d216274a83cf1b500bc6a534b809d6c1b1707cf2b
preprocessor_config.json782 B93585062a80db5e8ca038efc7726a3e6411d9db948472d81d63c6303993be8c5
special_tokens_map.json613 B76862e765266b85aa9459767e33cbaf13970f327a0e88d1c65846c2ddd3a1ecd
tokenizer.json11.4 MBaeb13307a71acd8fe81861d94ad54ab689df773318809eed3cbe794b4492dae4
tokenizer_config.json5.45 KB81ec7bb9530159b326c0bef1d0b6c33d392090524014ea3f0123a3c1eb9c2af5
video_preprocessor_config.json817 B59c5c9eb52182eb14c06ffb10ca9effd29adce5f238a95de23ca14a38dbd2cb1
vocab.json2.78 MBca10d7e9fb3ed18575dd1e277a2579c16d108e32f27439684afa0e10b1440910
VersionsEach time the pinned upstream commit or file list changed in this repo. Newest first.
Upstream commitDateContents
2fd8dacbdb pinned now2026-11-15 02:38 UTC16 files · 3.11 GB

Use it

$ fw get mlx-community/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-4bit
# manifest sha256 1a2c3a463077… · 3.11 GB · 16 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-4bit mlx-community/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-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-VL-4B-Instruct-4bit.json --dir ./Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-4bit $ python3 fw.py verify ./Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-4bit ./mlx-community__Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-4bit.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download mlx-community/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-4bit --revision 2fd8dacbdb8f1e54b8c005f081ec5bf79c56376b --local-dir ./Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-4bit
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/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-4bit", revision="2fd8dacbdb8f1e54b8c005f081ec5bf79c56376b") model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained("mlx-community/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-4bit", revision="2fd8dacbdb8f1e54b8c005f081ec5bf79c56376b", device_map="auto")
vLLMServe an OpenAI-compatible API.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com vllm serve mlx-community/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-4bit --revision 2fd8dacbdb8f1e54b8c005f081ec5bf79c56376b
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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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Provenance

From: mlx-community <huggingface.co/mlx-community>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject: Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-4bitDate: 2026-11-15Commit: 2fd8dacSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
Upstream
mlx-community/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-4bit
Pinned commit
2fd8dacbdb8f1e54b8c005f081ec5bf79c56376b
Manifest
Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-4bit.json · .minisig
Manifest sha256
1a2c3a463077a860bf160516344b6f11fe546a7d221cb6c57a3ec239bcd42649
Signature
minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B
Created
2026-11-15 02:38 UTC
Generator
freeweights-manifest/0.1.0
Takedowns
None.

How to verify

$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-4bit.json $ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-4bit.json.minisig $ minisign -Vm Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-4bit.json -P RWQ7KGqyx4zCLXtUFOqvfv8L3g+8fpKJ1FsuxPyOYMF+4KufbUxKq1Oq $ shasum -a 256 <file> # compare with the Files tab

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Signed manifest
minisign, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B. Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-4bit.json. Provenance. Takedown history: none.
Source
huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-4bit

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