Qwen3-8B-SWAN-6bit-MLX

Mixed-precision quantized version of Qwen/Qwen3-8B optimised by baa.ai.

Metrics

| Metric | Value |

|--------|-------|

| Size | 6 GB |

| Average bits | 6 |

| Framework | MLX |

| WikiText-2 PPL | 10.097 |

| Uniform 4-bit PPL | 10.249 |

Usage

from mlx_lm import load, generate



model, tokenizer = load("baa-ai/Qwen3-8B-SWAN-6bit-MLX")

response = generate(model, tokenizer, prompt="Hello!", max_tokens=256)

print(response)

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