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Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct-6bit

mlx-community/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct-6bit
Vision + text · transformers
6-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
73B
Weights (est.)
≈ 59.7 GB
Mac memory (est.)
96 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-vlm on an Apple silicon Mac:

pip install mlx-vlmpython -m mlx_vlm.generate --model mlx-community/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct-6bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"

Details

Base model
Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct (finetune)
Vendor
Qwen
Task
Vision + text
Quantisation
6-bit
Licence
qwen
Downloads
108 in the last 30 days · 1.5K all time · 1 likes
Published
2025-01-29 · updated 2025-02-25 (1y ago)
Languages
en
Tags
qwen2_5_vl, multimodal

Other MLX builds of Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct-3bit 3-bit ≈ 33.2 GB 48 GB+ 200
Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct-4bit 4-bit ≈ 42.3 GB 64 GB+ 1.8K
Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct-6bit (this one) 6-bit ≈ 59.7 GB 96 GB+ 108
Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct-8bit 8-bit ≈ 78.0 GB 96 GB+ 205
Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct-bf16 bf16 ≈ 147 GB 192 GB+ 89