What are the hardware requirements for Qwen2 VL 2B Mlx?

Qwen2 VL 2B Mlx requires approximately 4.4 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen2 VL 2B Mlx and how large is it?

Qwen2 VL 2B Mlx is developed by mlx-community, a model with 2b 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 Qwen2 VL 2B Mlx?

Qwen2 VL 2B Mlx is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen2 VL 2B Mlx by mlx-community — VRAM 4.4GB, 32K context

Name: Qwen2 VL 2B Mlx
Author: mlx-community

Qwen2 VL 2B Mlx is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 2b LLM, VRAM: 4.4GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.31.

Arxiv:2409.12191 Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen2... Base model:qwen/qwen2-vl-2b Conversational En Image-text-to-text Mlx Multimodal Qwen2 vl Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen2-VL-2B-mlx

Qwen2 VL 2B Mlx Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen2 VL 2B Mlx
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen2-VL-2B-mlx
Base Model(s)	Qwen2 VL 2B Qwen/Qwen2-VL-2B
Model Size	2b
Required VRAM	4.4 GB
Updated	2026-09-24
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	qwen2_vl
Model Files	4.4 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Qwen2VLForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.41.2
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Errors	replace

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