Using the Windows Package Manager is the quickest way to trigger the setup.
Make sure to follow the instructions below.
The loader auto-caches the model archive (several GBs included).
The setup file includes a feature that instantly optimizes all configurations.
The Qwen3.5-9B-MLX-4bit model delivers strong performance while maintaining a compact footprint thanks to its 9B parameters and 4-bit quantization. Its integration with the MLX framework enables optimized memory usage and accelerated inference on consumer‑grade hardware. The model supports an 8K token context window, allowing it to handle longer dialogues and complex reasoning tasks. Benchmarks show it achieves competitive perplexity scores compared to larger models, making it ideal for deployment in resource‑constrained environments. Additionally, the MLX optimizations reduce latency, providing smooth real‑time responses even on laptops and edge devices.
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Model Name | Qwen3.5-9B-MLX-4bit |
| Parameters | 9B |
| Quantization | 4‑bit |
| Framework | MLX |
| Context Length | 8K tokens |
| Inference Speed | >100 tokens/s (GPU) |
Docker offers the quickest path to setting up this model locally.
Follow the step-by-step instructions below.
The setup auto-streams the model assets (expect a multi-GB download).
The deployment tool scans your environment and automatically chooses the ideal parameters for your OS.
Qwen3.6-27B-int4-AutoRound is a highly optimized, 4-bit quantized variant of Alibaba Cloud’s flagship 27-billion parameter dense vision-language model, specifically compressed using Intel’s advanced AutoRound weight-rounding optimization framework. By executing sign-gradient-based optimization to fine-tune tensor weights, this configuration compresses the model footprint to roughly 18 GB of VRAM—yielding a massive 3x reduction in memory overhead while retaining state-of-the-art accuracy across code-centric tasks. The blueprint integrates a hybrid attention layout—interleaving Gated DeltaNet linear attention blocks with classic Gated Attention sublayers—to maintain an ultra-long 262,144-token context window with negligible KV-cache saturation. Critically, specialized releases dequantize the native Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) head back to BF16, fully unlocking hardware-accelerated speculative decoding within vLLM configurations for up to 2x higher production throughput.
| Specification | Detail |
|---|---|
| Total Parameters | 27 Billion (Dense VLM Core) |
| Quantization Scheme | INT4 W4A16 Symmetric (Group Size 128 via AutoRound) |
| VRAM Requirements | ~18 GB (Runs comfortably on a single consumer RTX 3090/4090) |
| Context Window | 262,144 tokens natively (Up to 1M via YaRN scaling) |
| Architecture Mix | Hybrid Gated DeltaNet + Gated Attention Layers |
| Hardware Acceleration | vLLM Native Speculative Decoding via preserved BF16 MTP Head |
| Primary Use Cases | Flagship-Level Agentic Coding, Multi-File Repository Engineering |