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AREX 2 5bit by mlx-community

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AREX 2 5bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 27.4b LLM, VRAM: 19.5GB, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.31.

  Arxiv:2609.38288   5-bit   5bit   Agent   Apple-silicon   Arex-2   Base model:baai/arex-2 Base model:quantized:baai/arex...   Conversational   Deep-research   En   Image-text-to-text   Long-context   Mac   Mlx   Quantized   Qwen3.8   Qwen3 5   Reasoning   Region:us   Safetensors   Sharded   Tensorflow   Tool-use   Vision
Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/AREX-2-5bit 

AREX 2 5bit Parameters and Internals

LLM NameAREX 2 5bit
Repository 🤗https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/AREX-2-5bit 
Base Model(s)  AREX 2   BAAI/AREX-2
Model Size27.4b
Required VRAM19.5 GB
Updated2026-10-10
Maintainermlx-community
Model Typeqwen3_5
Model Files  5.3 GB: 1-of-4   5.4 GB: 2-of-4   5.4 GB: 3-of-4   3.4 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languagesen
Quantization Type5bit
Model ArchitectureQwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
Licenseapache-2.0
Model Max Length262144
Transformers Version5.2.0
Tokenizer ClassQwen3_5Tokenizer
Padding Token<|endoftext|>
Errorsreplace

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