What are the hardware requirements for Hemmingway 1 OptiQ 4bit?

Hemmingway 1 OptiQ 4bit requires approximately 18.6 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 256K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Hemmingway 1 OptiQ 4bit and how large is it?

Hemmingway 1 OptiQ 4bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 26.9b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Hemmingway 1 OptiQ 4bit?

Hemmingway 1 OptiQ 4bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Hemmingway 1 OptiQ 4bit by mlx-community — VRAM 18.6GB, 256K context

Name: Hemmingway 1 OptiQ 4bit
Author: mlx-community

Hemmingway 1 OptiQ 4bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 26.9b LLM, VRAM: 18.6GB, Context: 256K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.31.

4-bit 4bit 8bit Apple-silicon Base model:altworld/hemmingway... Base model:quantized:altworld/... Conversational Mixed-precision Mlx Optiq Quantized Qwen3.5 Qwen3 5 text Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Writing

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Hemmingway-1-OptiQ-4bit

Hemmingway 1 OptiQ 4bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Hemmingway 1 OptiQ 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Hemmingway-1-OptiQ-4bit
Base Model(s)	Hemmingway 1 Altworld/Hemmingway-1
Model Size	26.9b
Required VRAM	18.6 GB
Updated	2026-09-25
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	qwen3_5_text
Model Files	5.3 GB: 1-of-4 5.3 GB: 2-of-4 5.3 GB: 3-of-4 2.7 GB: 4-of-4
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	Qwen3_5ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	5.17.0
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	248320
Errors	replace

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