---
license: mit
library_name: mlx
tags:
  - tiny-autoencoder
  - taehv
  - taew2.1
  - qwen-image
  - wan2.1
  - mlx
---

# taew2.1 (re-host)

A faithful re-host of madebyollin's **taew2.1** — the Tiny AutoEncoder for the Wan 2.1 VAE
(used by Qwen-Image / Qwen-Image-Edit) — for use by
[`mlx-taef`](https://github.com/IonDen/mlx-taef) as a fast, low-memory preview decoder.

## Provenance

- **Canonical source:** [`madebyollin/taehv`](https://github.com/madebyollin/taehv) @ commit
  `a1c8e6a2ba77b91f284ef98935ec5bd21a41d786`, file `safetensors/taew2_1.safetensors`.
- **sha256:** `04766eac0221b5390b985ae3fdcca652cbb4b1e8b82b28ea7ff89dfad1b1a93f` — byte-identical to
  the canonical GitHub file. fp16, 128 tensors, one combined file holding both encoder and decoder.
- **License:** MIT (unchanged from upstream).

This repo exists only because the canonical weights are published on GitHub (madebyollin hosts no
Hugging Face copy), and re-uploaded community mirrors were found to differ from the canonical
weights. `mlx-taef` pins this repo by revision + sha256 so the bytes are verified at download time.