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YOLO26x-OptiQ-6bit

Mixed-precision quantized YOLO26x for Apple Silicon via optiq

This is a mixed-precision quantized version of YOLO26x in MLX format, optimized with mlx-optiq for Apple Silicon inference via yolo-mlx.

Quantization Details

Property	Value
Target BPW	6.0
Achieved BPW	6.00
Layers at 4-bit	16
Layers at 8-bit	174
Original size	225.5 MB
Quantized size	50.6 MB
Compression	4.5x

Benchmark Results (COCO128)

Model	Total Detections	Avg/Image
optiq 6-bit	780	6.1
Original (FP32)	789	6.2

Detection delta: -9 (-1.1%) at 4.5x compression.

Usage

Requires mlx-optiq and yolo-mlx:

pip install mlx-optiq yolo-mlx

python

from optiq.models.yolo import load_quantized_yolo

model = load_quantized_yolo("mlx-community/YOLO26x-OptiQ-6bit")
results = model.predict("image.jpg")

How optiq Works

optiq measures each conv layer's sensitivity via KL divergence on detection outputs, then assigns optimal per-layer bit-widths using greedy knapsack optimization. Sensitive layers (detection head, feature pyramid) get 8-bit precision while robust backbone layers get 4-bit.

Article

For more details on the methodology and results, see: Not All Layers Are Equal

Credits

Quantization: mlx-optiq
Base model: YOLO26 by Ultralytics
MLX runtime: yolo-mlx
Framework: MLX by Apple