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Qwen3 8B 6bit by mlx-community

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Qwen3 8B 6bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 6.7GB, Context: 40K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.2.

  6-bit   6bit Base model:quantized:qwen/qwen...   Base model:qwen/qwen3-8b   Conversational   Mlx   Quantized   Qwen3   Region:us   Safetensors   Sharded   Tensorflow
Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-6bit 

Qwen3 8B 6bit Benchmarks

LLME Score: 0.20021
nn.n% — How the model compares to the reference models: Anthropic Sonnet 3.5 ("so35"), GPT-4o ("gpt4o") or GPT-4 ("gpt4").
Qwen3 8B 6bit (mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-6bit)
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Qwen3 8B 6bit Parameters and Internals

LLM NameQwen3 8B 6bit
Repository 🤗https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-6bit 
Base Model(s)  Qwen3 8B   Qwen/Qwen3-8B
Model Size8b
Required VRAM6.7 GB
Updated2026-04-19
Maintainermlx-community
Model Typeqwen3
Model Files  5.4 GB: 1-of-2   1.3 GB: 2-of-2
Quantization Type6bit
Model ArchitectureQwen3ForCausalLM
Licenseapache-2.0
Context Length40960
Model Max Length40960
Transformers Version4.51.0
Tokenizer ClassQwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token<|endoftext|>
Vocabulary Size151936
Torch Data Typebfloat16
Errorsreplace

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