This is an unofficial MLX 8-bit conversion of huihui-ai/Huihui-Qwen3.8-27B-abliterated, prepared for local inference on Apple silicon with mlx-vlm.

The conversion is pinned to upstream revision 739e3c5b89849f6c238ce1e5b70008612ae42cdd. No additional fine-tuning or abliteration was performed during conversion.

What is included

Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration architecture in MLX Safetensors format.
Language-model weights quantized to 8-bit affine RTN with group size 64.
Vision components and multimodal processors retained at their source precision.
Six weight shards, approximately 30 GB (28 GiB) in total.
Text and image-to-text inference support through mlx-vlm.
No standalone MTP drafter and no usable mtp.* checkpoint tensors.

The upstream model reports that layers 18 through 51 were ablated while its visual components were left unmodified. See the upstream model card for details about the abliteration procedure and the original model.

Conversion details

Item	Value
Source model	`huihui-ai/Huihui-Qwen3.8-27B-abliterated`
Source revision	`739e3c5b89849f6c238ce1e5b70008612ae42cdd`
Upstream revision date	2026-08-24 03:47:39 UTC
Conversion date	2026-08-25
Conversion tool	`mlx-vlm 0.6.16`
MLX version	`0.32.2`
Source loading dtype	`bfloat16`
Quantization	8-bit affine RTN, group size 64
Converter-reported average	8.627 bits per weight
Vision quantization	Not applied; source precision retained
MTP	Not included

Equivalent conversion settings:

bash

python -m pip install "mlx-vlm==0.6.16" "mlx==0.32.2" jinja2

mlx_vlm.convert \
  --hf-path huihui-ai/Huihui-Qwen3.8-27B-abliterated \
  --revision 739e3c5b89849f6c238ce1e5b70008612ae42cdd \
  --mlx-path ./Huihui-Qwen3.8-27B-abliterated-MLX-8bit \
  --quantize \
  --q-bits 8 \
  --q-group-size 64 \
  --q-mode affine \
  --quant-method rtn

Usage with mlx-vlm

Install a recent mlx-vlm. Version 0.6.16 is the version used and tested for this conversion.

python -m pip install -U "mlx-vlm>=0.6.16"

The examples below use the full Hugging Face repository ID. A local model directory can be used instead.

Text generation

bash

MODEL="daguoagi/Huihui-Qwen3.8-27B-abliterated-MLX-8bit"

mlx_vlm.generate \
  --model "$MODEL" \
  --prompt "Explain why the sky appears blue." \
  --max-tokens 512 \
  --temperature 1.0 \
  --top-p 0.95 \
  --top-k 20

Image understanding

bash

MODEL="daguoagi/Huihui-Qwen3.8-27B-abliterated-MLX-8bit"

mlx_vlm.generate \
  --model "$MODEL" \
  --image /absolute/path/to/image.jpg \
  --prompt "Describe this image in detail." \
  --max-tokens 512 \
  --temperature 1.0 \
  --top-p 0.95 \
  --top-k 20

Python example

python

from mlx_vlm import generate, load
from mlx_vlm.prompt_utils import apply_chat_template

model_path = "daguoagi/Huihui-Qwen3.8-27B-abliterated-MLX-8bit"
image_path = "/absolute/path/to/image.jpg"

model, processor = load(model_path)
messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [{"type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in detail."}],
    }
]
prompt = apply_chat_template(
    processor,
    model.config,
    messages,
    num_images=1,
)

result = generate(
    model,
    processor,
    prompt,
    image=[image_path],
    max_tokens=512,
    temperature=1.0,
    top_p=0.95,
    top_k=20,
)
print(result.text)

The bundled generation_config.json uses temperature=1.0, top_p=0.95, and top_k=20. These are useful starting points rather than mandatory settings.

Recommended DFlash2 draft model

For speculative decoding, the recommended pairing is z-lab/Qwen3.8-27B-DFlash2, an Apache-2.0 DFlash 2 draft checkpoint for Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B. It is a separate dependency and is not included in this repository. The draft is not a standalone language model; a compatible runtime uses it to propose tokens that are verified by this target model.

The published draft checkpoint uses a block size of 8 and a sliding window of 2048. The same draft has been locally compatibility-tested with the 4-bit sibling built from this exact source revision. This 8-bit release has not been separately inference-tested. Because the target weights differ from the original Qwen3.8-27B, acceptance rates vary by prompt and workload. A compatible speculative runtime still verifies output against the target model, but the speedup is runtime- and workload-dependent.

Use with mlx-vlm

mlx-vlm 0.6.16 can load this DFlash2 checkpoint directly:

bash

MODEL="daguoagi/Huihui-Qwen3.8-27B-abliterated-MLX-8bit"

mlx_vlm.generate \
  --model "$MODEL" \
  --prompt "Explain why the sky appears blue." \
  --max-tokens 512 \
  --temperature 1.0 \
  --top-p 0.95 \
  --top-k 20 \
  --draft-model z-lab/Qwen3.8-27B-DFlash2 \
  --draft-kind dflash \
  --draft-block-size 8

In mlx-vlm 0.6.16, the draft checkpoint is loaded at its native precision; that version does not expose the runtime draft-quantization controls described below for oMLX.

Reference oMLX configuration

The following production configuration was tested with oMLX 0.6.3rc3 and the 4-bit sibling model. It is provided as a starting point for this 8-bit release:

Setting	Value
Draft model	`z-lab/Qwen3.8-27B-DFlash2`
Draft quantization	Q4 weights / A16 activations / group size 64
Draft window	2048 (checkpoint default / automatic)
Draft sink	0
Block size	8
Verification	Adaptive
In-memory draft cache	1 entry, 2 GB limit
SSD draft cache	Disabled

On the tested 4-bit sibling, text requests use the DFlash2 path while image requests retain the VLM fallback path. This 8-bit release has not been separately validated with DFlash2. The draft model and its license should be reviewed and downloaded separately. Local throughput results are intentionally not presented as portable performance claims because they depend heavily on the Apple silicon device, runtime implementation, context length, and draft acceptance rate.

Conversion validation

Per the release workflow, this 8-bit checkpoint was not subjected to text, vision, DFlash2, or performance inference tests. Release preparation validates only the conversion artifacts:

The mlx-vlm 0.6.16 conversion completed successfully.
The converter reported an average of 8.627 bits per weight.
Configuration files and the Safetensors index parse successfully.
All six weight shards referenced by the index are present.
The Hugging Face model-card metadata parses successfully.

These checks establish artifact completeness, not model quality or runtime compatibility on every MLX version.

Limitations

8-bit quantization can reduce quality relative to the source checkpoint.
The model inherits the behavior and limitations of the upstream abliterated model. The uncensored or abliterated label does not guarantee that every refusal has been removed, nor does it guarantee factual or safe output.
Vision weights were retained, but multimodal quality has not been evaluated with a formal benchmark suite.
MTP weights are not included in this repository.
DFlash2 acceleration, when used, requires a separate compatible draft model and runtime; it is not bundled with this checkpoint.
This checkpoint targets Apple silicon and MLX. It is not a drop-in replacement for the original Transformers checkpoint.

Users are responsible for evaluating outputs and ensuring that their use complies with applicable laws, policies, and the upstream model license.

License and attribution

The upstream model is released under the Apache License 2.0. This conversion retains that license. Please also review the huihui-ai/Huihui-Qwen3.8-27B-abliterated and Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B model cards.