This repository contains an MLX-converted and 4-bit quantized version of Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct.
No fine-tuning or training was performed
Format conversion + post-training quantization only
Recommended default for on-device usage
Usage
pip install -U mlx-lm
bash
1mlx_lm.generate \2 --model Irfanuruchi/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-MLX-4bit \3 --prompt "Write a helpful onboarding message for an iOS app in 3 bullet points."
Bench notes (MacBook Pro M3 Pro)
Prompt tokens: 45
Generation tokens: 100
Generation speed: ~292.9 tokens/sec
Peak memory: ~0.319 GB
Tooling
mlx-lm: 0.30.2
mlx: bundled with Apple MLX (no public version string)