---
license: apache-2.0
base_model: baidu/ERNIE-Image-Turbo
pipeline_tag: text-to-image
library_name: mlx-gen
tags:
- mlx
- mlx-gen
- mflux
- apple-silicon
- 8-bit
- ernie
- ernie-image
- ernie-image-turbo
---
# ernie-image-turbo-8bit

This repository contains MLX-Gen saved weights for `baidu/ERNIE-Image-Turbo`. The checkpoint is designed for local Apple Silicon inference with [`mlx-gen`](https://github.com/lpalbou/mlx-gen).

It uses the mflux/MLX saved-weight layout and MLX quantization tensors. It is not a Diffusers or Transformers `from_pretrained()` checkpoint.

## Source Model

Original model: [`baidu/ERNIE-Image-Turbo`](https://huggingface.co/baidu/ERNIE-Image-Turbo).

## License and Access

This quantized derivative follows the Apache 2.0 license of the source model.

## Quantization

This is an MLX q8 checkpoint for ERNIE Image Turbo. MLX-Gen uses 8-bit quantization for ERNIE modules where MLX supports quantization:

- q8 for quantizable ERNIE transformer modules.
- q8 for quantizable ERNIE text-encoder modules.
- q8 for quantizable ERNIE VAE attention modules.
- BF16 for norms, convolutions, and other non-quantizable parameters.

ERNIE q4 uses a model-specific mixed q4/q8 policy because fully q4 checkpoints can drift from BF16/q8 behavior.

See the [MLX-Gen quantization docs](https://github.com/lpalbou/mlx-gen/blob/main/docs/quantization.md) for compatibility notes and measured ERNIE q4/q8 behavior.

Prepared ERNIE folders contain the ordinary text-to-image generation stack. ERNIE Prompt Enhancer files are not bundled in this checkpoint.

## Compatibility

Requires `mlx-gen >= 0.18.5`.

Generated with `mlx-gen 0.18.5`.

Use the `mlxgen` command and Python import path for new MLX-Gen projects.

## Usage

```bash
python -m pip install -U mlx-gen

mlxgen download --model AbstractFramework/ernie-image-turbo-8bit

mlxgen generate \
  --model AbstractFramework/ernie-image-turbo-8bit \
  --prompt "Your prompt here" \
  --width 512 \
  --height 512 \
  --steps 8 \
  --guidance 1 \
  --seed 42 \
  --output image.png
```

## Attribution

MLX-Gen is based on [mflux](https://github.com/filipstrand/mflux) by Filip Strand and the original mflux contributors. This model card is generated by MLX-Gen so derived checkpoints keep that attribution visible.

Quantized and contributed by [@lpalbou](https://huggingface.co/lpalbou).