MLX Community · First MLX build 20 Jun 2026
huihui-Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct-ab
MLX
TextVision apache-2.0
A 2.1B parameter vision and text model, with one MLX build at 4-bit.
- Parameters
- 2.1B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 4-bit huihui-Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct-ab-4bit
- Memory needed
- 4 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 1.8 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 79 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Vision and text Text, Vision
- MLX builds
- 1 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 4 GB at 4-bit
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128 GB
Fits with headroomTight, close other appsWon’t fit
Estimated from the size of the weights, plus a fifth for context and working memory and 2 GB for macOS and your apps. Long contexts need more.
Run it
Terminal · mlx-vlm$ pip install -U mlx-vlm
$ python -m mlx_vlm.generate --model mlx-community/huihui-Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct-ab-4bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"MLX builds
1 on mlx-community| huihui-Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct-ab-4bit | 4-bit | 1.8 GB | 4 GB | 79 |
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Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.