          arc   arc/e boolq hswag obkqa piqa  wino
mxfp8     0.351,0.501,0.733,0.462,0.348,0.682,0.573
q8-hi     0.363,0.501,0.777,0.466,0.364,0.695,0.548
q8        0.363,0.505,0.779,0.466,0.362,0.695,0.553
q6-hi     0.354,0.503,0.773,0.465,0.370,0.693,0.558
q6        0.357,0.503,0.769,0.462,0.370,0.695,0.543
q5-hi     0.348,0.493,0.771,0.461,0.350,0.684,0.561
q5        0.354,0.502,0.765,0.462,0.356,0.686,0.552
q4-hi     0.342,0.480,0.756,0.442,0.328,0.680,0.557
q4        0.349,0.487,0.749,0.445,0.356,0.670,0.550
mxfp4     0.339,0.489,0.738,0.433,0.330,0.672,0.553

tvall43/Qwen3.5-0.8B-Text-heretic
mxfp8     0.348,0.502,0.635,0.461,0.338,0.682,0.571
mxfp4     0.333,0.495,0.673,0.432,0.330,0.670,0.552

Old model performance

Qwen3-0.6B
bf16      0.298,0.354,0.378,0.415,0.344,0.649,0.534
q8-hi     0.296,0.355,0.378,0.416,0.348,0.652,0.529
q8        0.299,0.354,0.378,0.414,0.346,0.650,0.535
q6-hi     0.301,0.356,0.378,0.415,0.350,0.651,0.541
q6        0.300,0.367,0.378,0.416,0.344,0.647,0.524
mxfp4     0.286,0.364,0.609,0.404,0.316,0.626,0.531

Quant     Perplexity     Peak memory
mxfp8     6.611 ± 0.049  7.65 GB
mxfp4     7.455 ± 0.057  6.33 GB

More metrics coming soon.

-G

Use with mlx

pip install mlx-lm

python

from mlx_lm import load, generate

model, tokenizer = load("Qwen3.5-0.8B-mxfp4-mlx")

prompt = "hello"

if tokenizer.chat_template is not None:
    messages = [{"role": "user", "content": prompt}]
    prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
        messages, add_generation_prompt=True, return_dict=False,
    )

response = generate(model, tokenizer, prompt=prompt, verbose=True)

nightmedia/Qwen3.5-0.8B-mxfp4-mlx

Qwen3.5-0.8B-mxfp4-mlx

Use with mlx

nightmedia/
Qwen3.5-0.8B-mxfp4-mlx