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Ternary-Bonsai-2-4B-2bit

mlx-community/Ternary-Bonsai-2-4B-2bit
2-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
4.5B
Weights (est.)
≈ 2.0 GB
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-vlm on an Apple silicon Mac:

pip install mlx-vlmpython -m mlx_vlm.generate --model mlx-community/Ternary-Bonsai-2-4B-2bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"

Details

Base model
Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B (finetune) · Qwen3.5 4B on the radar →
Vendor
Qwen
Task
Vision + text
Quantisation
2-bit
Licence
apache-2.0
Downloads
547 in the last 30 days · 547 all time · 0 likes
Published
2026-10-15 · updated 2026-10-15 (26d ago)
Tags
prism_hadamard_qwen35, ternary, metal, on-device, hybrid-attention, vision, prismml, bonsai

Other MLX builds of Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
Qwen3.5-4B-MTP-4bit 4-bit ≈ 68 MB 8 GB+ 594
Qwen3.5-4B-MTP-5bit 5-bit ≈ 83 MB 8 GB+ 446
Qwen3.5-4B-MTP-bf16 bf16 ≈ 241 MB 8 GB+ 201
Ternary-Bonsai-2-4B-2bit (this one) 2-bit ≈ 2.0 GB 8 GB+ 547
Qwen3.5-4B-OptiQ-4bit 4-bit ≈ 2.4 GB 8 GB+ 5.5K
Qwen3.5-4B-MLX-4bit 4-bit ≈ 3.0 GB 8 GB+ 102K
Qwen3.5-4B-MLX-8bit 8-bit ≈ 5.1 GB 8 GB+ 1.7K
Qwen3.5-4B-MLX-bf16 bf16 ≈ 9.1 GB 16 GB+ 357