popfido/Qwythos-9B-Claude-Mythos-5-1M-oQ4-MLX-MTP-Visual
Qwythos-9B-Claude-Mythos-5-1M — oQ4 MLX (MTP + Vision)
4-bit oMLX-quantized MLX conversion of [empero-ai/Qwythos-9B-Claude-Mythos-5-1M-GGUF](https://huggingface.co/empero-ai/Qwythos-9B-Claude-Mythos-5-1M-GGUF) (Qwen3.5-9B, hybrid GatedDeltaNet + attention) with the MTP head and the Qwen3.5-9B vision tower.
Pipeline: MTP-BF16 GGUF → float16 MLX (via [popfido/gguf2mlx](https://github.com/popfido/gguf2mlx/tree/feat/qwen35-mtp-vision)) → oQ level 4 quantization (oMLX Universal Dynamic Quantization). ~5.8 GB, runs on much less RAM than the full-precision variant. For maximum fidelity use the BF16 repo; for the un-quantized 8-bit source see Q8.
Quantization
- oQ4 — 4-bit base, mixed precision: sensitivity-driven higher bits (5–6) on the GatedDeltaNet
in_proj_a/b,out_proj, anddown_projlayers; affine, group size 64. - MTP preserved (
preserve_mtp=True): themtp.*tensors andmtp_num_hidden_layersare kept so the Native MTP toggle works after quantization. - Minor quality drift vs full precision is expected at 4-bit (e.g. occasional factual slips on greedy decode); core generation is coherent and correct.
The underlying float16 conversion was verified bit-exact vs llama.cpp (text), and the vision tower matches llama.cpp mtmd output — see the BF16 repo card for the full verification + Qwen3.5 conversion notes (zero-centered RMSNorm, A_log = log(−ssm_a), strided→grouped value-heads, YaRN).
Usage
from mlx_vlm import load, generate
from mlx_vlm.prompt_utils import apply_chat_template
model, processor = load("popfido/Qwythos-9B-Claude-Mythos-5-1M-oQ4-MLX-MTP-Visual")
prompt = apply_chat_template(processor, model.config, "Describe this image.", num_images=1)
print(generate(model, processor, prompt, image=["image.png"], max_tokens=128).text)Recommended sampling: temperature 0.6, top_p 0.95, top_k 20, repetition_penalty 1.05.
License & attribution
Inherits apache-2.0 from the base model. All credit for the model to empero-ai; this repo is an MLX-format conversion + oQ quantization only.
