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Ternary-Bonsai-2-9B-2bit

mlx-community/Ternary-Bonsai-2-9B-2bit
2-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
9.4B
Weights (est.)
≈ 3.7 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-2-9B-2bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"

Details

Base model
Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B (finetune) · Qwen3.5 9B on the radar →
Vendor
Qwen
Task
Vision + text
Quantisation
2-bit
Licence
apache-2.0
Downloads
897 in the last 30 days · 897 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/Qwen3.5-9B

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
Qwen3.5-9B-MTP-4bit 4-bit ≈ 137 MB 8 GB+ 1.0K
Qwen3.5-9B-MTP-5bit 5-bit ≈ 167 MB 8 GB+ 128
Qwen3.5-9B-MTP-bf16 bf16 ≈ 487 MB 8 GB+ 140
Ternary-Bonsai-2-9B-2bit (this one) 2-bit ≈ 3.7 GB 8 GB+ 897
Qwen3.5-9B-MLX-4bit 4-bit ≈ 6.0 GB 16 GB+ 27K
Qwen3.5-9B-OptiQ-4bit 4-bit ≈ 6.0 GB 16 GB+ 6.5K
Qwen3.5-9B-MLX-8bit 8-bit ≈ 10.4 GB 16 GB+ 1.4K
Qwen3.5-9B-MLX-bf16 bf16 ≈ 18.8 GB 24 GB+ 136