alt.freeweights.qwen / Qwen3.5-9B-4bit
From: mlx-community <huggingface.co/mlx-community>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject:

Qwen3.5-9B-4bit

Date: 2026-11-14Commit: 8b2b98cSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Image text to text model with 9.4B parameters. Safetensors weights, 5.98 GB in all. Published by mlx-community under Apache-2.0.

9.4B params5.98GBQwen3.5-9B-4bitsafetensorspermissive
FactsParams9.4BSize5.98 GBFormatssafetensorsTaskimage text to textLicenseApache-2.0From sourcepermissive
$ fw get mlx-community/Qwen3.5-9B-4bit
# manifest sha256 d0ad72ede9e6… · 5.98 GB · 13 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen3.5-9B-4bit mlx-community/Qwen3.5-9B-4bit
From sourceHosted (signed)mlx-community/Qwen3.5-9B-4bitLast check: 2026-11-14 21:30 UTC

Get help: custom fine-tune or private deploy. We review your setup before we quote.

Quantized of Qwen3.5-9B-Base.

Works with

Overview

Size
5.98 GB
Weights
5.95 GB (safetensors)
Parameters
9.4B
Formats
safetensors
Task
image text to text
License
Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files
13, each with a sha256
Publisher
mlx-community
Added
2026-11-14
Section
alt.freeweights.qwen
Lineage

Original release from the publisher.

Base model: Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B-Base

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

Sources are tried in order. A file counts only when its size and sha256 match the manifest. Sources are checked when you ask for them, not on a timer.

Sources
BadgeHostLast checkResult
From sourcehuggingface.co2026-11-14 21:30 UTCpassed

Model card

From the publisher at commit 8b2b98c. Shown as plain text with links; images open at the publisher.

mlx-community/Qwen3.5-9B-4bit#

This model was converted to MLX format from Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B 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-vlm
python -m mlx_vlm.generate --model mlx-community/Qwen3.5-9B-4bit --max-tokens 100 --temperature 0.0 --prompt "Describe this image." --image <path_to_image>

Files

13 files · 5.98 GBWeights 5.95 GB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
Hide all 13 files with their sha256
FileSizesha256
.gitattributes1.57 KB34448b82c17d60fec9b65b1f093c115ddbaadc04beb1b0140b6bfed2e012a930
README.md666 B1407e3e3337063c280b2fe1a63724908a5051cfbf26cd8b98f247432b0382537
chat_template.jinja7.76 KBa4aee8afcf2e0711942cf848899be66016f8d14a889ff9ede07bca099c28f715
config.json3.33 KBa96942cb6a8a1d3f1d17514d81a1925d04362a6a3233b389d13012211baaa9f8
model-00001-of-00002.safetensors5.35 GBa68b87558c6ef43f74c2bd63ce7e9092ceddc3101f3def0030774bae5f42aadd
model-00002-of-00002.safetensors600 MBb0a770bf8469c7f3f18756a0e0283f1c1174344a83e059a4e483f6af4907352d
model.safetensors.index.json124 KBdd023913fb87cfdae27fb11dcf695117c925833796ccac3c64117d6652d8ff1e
preprocessor_config.json390 B27225450ac9c6529872ee1924fcb0962ff5634834f817040f444118116f4e516
processor_config.json1.30 KB14932921ca485d458a04dafd8069fbb0a4505622a48208d19ed247115801385b
tokenizer.json20.0 MB87a7830d63fcf43bf241c3c5242e96e62dd3fdc29224ca26fed8ea333db72de4
tokenizer_config.json1.14 KBe98f1901ac6f0adff67b1d540bfa0c36ac1a0cf59eb72ed78146ef89aafa1182
video_preprocessor_config.json385 B7768af27c1fafa9cc9011c1dc20067e03f8915e03b63504550e11d5066986d13
vocab.json6.72 MBce99b4cb2983d118806ce0a8b777a35b093e2000a503ebde25853284c9dfa003
VersionsEach time the pinned upstream commit or file list changed in this repo. Newest first.
Upstream commitDateContents
8b2b98c00a pinned now manifest updated, same commit2026-11-14 21:30 UTC13 files · 5.98 GB
8b2b98c00a2026-11-14 21:30 UTC13 files · 5.98 GB

Use it

$ fw get mlx-community/Qwen3.5-9B-4bit
# manifest sha256 d0ad72ede9e6… · 5.98 GB · 13 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen3.5-9B-4bit mlx-community/Qwen3.5-9B-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/Qwen3.5-9B-4bit.json --dir ./Qwen3.5-9B-4bit $ python3 fw.py verify ./Qwen3.5-9B-4bit ./mlx-community__Qwen3.5-9B-4bit.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download mlx-community/Qwen3.5-9B-4bit --revision 8b2b98c00a6b4d291155e4890773ca8f769aee53 --local-dir ./Qwen3.5-9B-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/Qwen3.5-9B-4bit", revision="8b2b98c00a6b4d291155e4890773ca8f769aee53") model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained("mlx-community/Qwen3.5-9B-4bit", revision="8b2b98c00a6b4d291155e4890773ca8f769aee53", device_map="auto")
vLLMServe an OpenAI-compatible API.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com vllm serve mlx-community/Qwen3.5-9B-4bit --revision 8b2b98c00a6b4d291155e4890773ca8f769aee53

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
1407e3e3337063c280b2fe1a63724908a5051cfbf26cd8b98f247432b0382537
Terms gate
No extra terms beyond the license.

Read the license text

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Provenance

From: mlx-community <huggingface.co/mlx-community>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject: Qwen3.5-9B-4bitDate: 2026-11-14Commit: 8b2b98cSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
Upstream
mlx-community/Qwen3.5-9B-4bit
Pinned commit
8b2b98c00a6b4d291155e4890773ca8f769aee53
Manifest
Qwen3.5-9B-4bit.json · .minisig
Manifest sha256
d0ad72ede9e6728059feb4c10e5268bbb94bf78b5eb6eac3582263239f8f46ad
Signature
minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B
Created
2026-11-14 21:30 UTC
Generator
freeweights-manifest/0.1.0
Takedowns
None.

How to verify

$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/Qwen3.5-9B-4bit.json $ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/Qwen3.5-9B-4bit.json.minisig $ minisign -Vm Qwen3.5-9B-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

Model tree

Parent

Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B-Base · 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/Qwen3.5-9B-4bit
Open in Freeweights Studio

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

Signed manifest
minisign, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B. Qwen3.5-9B-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