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Astrea R8 Chat 9B OptiQ 4bit by mlx-community

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Astrea R8 Chat 9B OptiQ 4bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 9b LLM, VRAM: 7.1GB, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.32.

  4-bit   4bit   8bit   Apple-silicon Base model:hemmingwayai/astrea... Base model:quantized:hemmingwa...   Chat   Conversational   Creative-writing   En   Image-text-to-text   Mixed-precision   Mlx   Optiq   Quantized   Qwen3.5   Qwen3 5   Region:us   Safetensors   Sharded   Tensorflow   Vision   Vision-language-model
Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Astrea-R8-Chat-9B-OptiQ-4bit 

Astrea R8 Chat 9B OptiQ 4bit Parameters and Internals

LLM NameAstrea R8 Chat 9B OptiQ 4bit
Repository 🤗https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Astrea-R8-Chat-9B-OptiQ-4bit 
Base Model(s)  Astrea R8 Chat 9B   HemmingwayAI/Astrea-R8-Chat-9B
Model Size9b
Required VRAM7.1 GB
Updated2026-10-26
Maintainermlx-community
Model Typeqwen3_5
Model Files  5.3 GB: 1-of-2   1.8 GB: 2-of-2   0.9 GB
Supported Languagesen
Quantization Type4bit
Model ArchitectureQwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
Licenseapache-2.0
Model Max Length262144
Transformers Version5.15.0.dev0
Tokenizer ClassQwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token<|endoftext|>
Errorsreplace

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