Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-2bit-mlx
mlx-community/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-2bit-mlx
Text generation · transformers
2-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
494M
Weights (est.)
≈ 155 MB
Mac memory (est.)
8 GB+
Size is estimated from the parameter count and quantisation. Memory allows a fifth extra for context plus 2 GB for the system; long contexts need more.
Run it
With mlx-lm on an Apple silicon Mac:
pip install mlx-lmmlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-2bit-mlx --prompt "Hello"
Details
- Base model
- Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct (quantized) · Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct on the radar →
- Vendor
- Qwen
- Task
- Text generation
- Quantisation
- 2-bit
- Licence
- apache-2.0
- Downloads
- 70 in the last 30 days · 1.2K all time · 0 likes
- Published
- 2025-02-17 · updated 2025-02-17 (1y ago)
- Languages
- en
- Tags
- qwen2, chat
Other MLX builds of Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct
| Build | Quantisation | Weights | Mac memory | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-2bit-mlx (this one) | 2-bit | ≈ 155 MB | 8 GB+ | 70 |
| qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-q2 | 2-bit | ≈ 155 MB | 8 GB+ | 46 |