From: <huggingface.co/mlx-community> Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject: Qwen3.5-2B-8bit Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 562fb8eSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓ Image text to text model with 2.2B parameters. Safetensors weights, 2.69 GB in all. Published by mlx-community under Apache-2.0.
2.2B params 2.69 GB Qwen3.5-2B-8bit safetensors permissive Facts Params 2.2B Size 2.69 GB Formats safetensors Task image text to text License Apache-2.0 permissive
fw
$ fw get mlx-community/Qwen3.5-2B-8bit
# manifest sha256 ff1ea0c41cae… · 2.69 GB · 12 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen3.5-2B-8bit mlx-community/Qwen3.5-2B-8bitHosted (signed) mlx-community/Qwen3.5-2B-8bit Last check: 2026-11-15 05:16 UTC
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Overview
Size 2.69 GB
Weights 2.66 GB (safetensors)
Parameters 2.2B
Formats safetensors
Task image text to text
License Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files 12, each with a sha256
Publisher mlx-community
Added 2026-11-15
Section alt.freeweights.qwen Lineage
Original release from the publisher.
Base model: Qwen/Qwen3.5-2B-Base
Where these bytes come from
Publisher at the pinned commit →You
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Model card From the publisher at commit
562fb8e . Shown as plain text with links; images open at the publisher.
This model was converted to MLX format from Qwen/Qwen3.5-2B using mlx-vlm version 0.3.12 . Refer to the original model card for more details on the model.
Use with mlx#
pip install -U mlx-vlmpython -m mlx_vlm.generate --model mlx-community/Qwen3.5-2B-8bit --max-tokens 100 --temperature 0.0 --prompt "Describe this image." --image <path_to_image> Files 12 files · 2.69 GB Weights 2.66 GB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
Hide all 12 files with their sha256 File Size sha256 .gitattributes 1.57 KB 34448b82c17d60fec9b65b1f093c115ddbaadc04beb1b0140b6bfed2e012a930 README.md 666 B bdf31396f6aa7d5ecbef9b7107c4c13428b01738317e941096b507672bf81e74 chat_template.jinja 7.75 KB 273d8e0e683b885071fb17e08d71e5f2a5ddfb5309756181681de4f5a1822d80 config.json 3.11 KB 0b346cffd088534d6e5e5ad3e394ba615dc841d49e5679d94f137fa8d78833f7 model.safetensors 2.66 GB 5b298a9f14443a30250f9164e322234f80b0f651665fc7db09a0b65e2167bdd8 model.safetensors.index.json 81.7 KB dbe47447e88eab55b9f1488260ae1ea19a55c751ab7a4c87e9a49ac4ffcb8d08 preprocessor_config.json 390 B 27225450ac9c6529872ee1924fcb0962ff5634834f817040f444118116f4e516 processor_config.json 1.30 KB 14932921ca485d458a04dafd8069fbb0a4505622a48208d19ed247115801385b tokenizer.json 20.0 MB 87a7830d63fcf43bf241c3c5242e96e62dd3fdc29224ca26fed8ea333db72de4 tokenizer_config.json 1.14 KB e98f1901ac6f0adff67b1d540bfa0c36ac1a0cf59eb72ed78146ef89aafa1182 video_preprocessor_config.json 385 B 7768af27c1fafa9cc9011c1dc20067e03f8915e03b63504550e11d5066986d13 vocab.json 6.72 MB ce99b4cb2983d118806ce0a8b777a35b093e2000a503ebde25853284c9dfa003
Versions Each time the pinned upstream commit or file list changed in this repo. Newest first.
Upstream commit Date Contents 562fb8ea19 pinned now 2026-11-15 05:16 UTC 12 files · 2.69 GB
Use it fw
$ fw get mlx-community/Qwen3.5-2B-8bit
# manifest sha256 ff1ea0c41cae… · 2.69 GB · 12 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen3.5-2B-8bit mlx-community/Qwen3.5-2B-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/Qwen3.5-2B-8bit.json --dir ./Qwen3.5-2B-8bit
$ python3 fw.py verify ./Qwen3.5-2B-8bit ./mlx-community__Qwen3.5-2B-8bit.jsonhf The Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT =https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download mlx-community/Qwen3.5-2B-8bit --revision 562fb8ea19bbe7565a3ddf5b7d49899ea2c88d2b --local-dir ./Qwen3.5-2B-8bittransformers Load 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/Qwen3.5-2B-8bit", revision="562fb8ea19bbe7565a3ddf5b7d49899ea2c88d2b")
model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained("mlx-community/Qwen3.5-2B-8bit", revision="562fb8ea19bbe7565a3ddf5b7d49899ea2c88d2b", device_map="auto")vLLM Serve an OpenAI-compatible API.
$ HF_ENDPOINT =https://freeweights.allternit.com vllm serve mlx-community/Qwen3.5-2B-8bit --revision 562fb8ea19bbe7565a3ddf5b7d49899ea2c88d2bLicense 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 bdf31396f6aa7d5ecbef9b7107c4c13428b01738317e941096b507672bf81e74 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: Qwen3.5-2B-8bit Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 562fb8eSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓ Upstream mlx-community/Qwen3.5-2B-8bit Pinned commit 562fb8ea19bbe7565a3ddf5b7d49899ea2c88d2b Manifest Qwen3.5-2B-8bit.json · .minisig Manifest sha256 ff1ea0c41cae501bfc67c5f86f5c141b3b445b3067bb6a2082f88524915f3f7c Signature minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B Created 2026-11-15 05:16 UTC Generator freeweights-manifest/0.1.0 Takedowns None. How to verify
$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/Qwen3.5-2B-8bit.json
$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/Qwen3.5-2B-8bit.json.minisig
$ minisign -Vm Qwen3.5-2B-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
$ HF_ENDPOINT =https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download mlx-community/Qwen3.5-2B-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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