Instructions to use RepublicOfKorokke/Qwen3.5-0.8B-oQ8-fp16-lm with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use RepublicOfKorokke/Qwen3.5-0.8B-oQ8-fp16-lm with MLX:

# Make sure mlx-lm is installed
# pip install --upgrade mlx-lm

# Generate text with mlx-lm
from mlx_lm import load, generate

model, tokenizer = load("RepublicOfKorokke/Qwen3.5-0.8B-oQ8-fp16-lm")

prompt = "Write a story about Einstein"
messages = [{"role": "user", "content": prompt}]
prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
    messages, add_generation_prompt=True
)

text = generate(model, tokenizer, prompt=prompt, verbose=True)

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings
LM Studio

How to use RepublicOfKorokke/Qwen3.5-0.8B-oQ8-fp16-lm with Pi:

Start the MLX server

# Install MLX LM:
uv tool install mlx-lm
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server:
mlx_lm.server --model "RepublicOfKorokke/Qwen3.5-0.8B-oQ8-fp16-lm"

Configure the model in Pi

# Install Pi:
npm install -g @mariozechner/pi-coding-agent
# Add to ~/.pi/agent/models.json:
{
  "providers": {
    "mlx-lm": {
      "baseUrl": "http://localhost:8080/v1",
      "api": "openai-completions",
      "apiKey": "none",
      "models": [
        {
          "id": "RepublicOfKorokke/Qwen3.5-0.8B-oQ8-fp16-lm"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Run Pi

# Start Pi in your project directory:
pi

Hermes Agent new

How to use RepublicOfKorokke/Qwen3.5-0.8B-oQ8-fp16-lm with Hermes Agent:

Start the MLX server

# Install MLX LM:
uv tool install mlx-lm
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server:
mlx_lm.server --model "RepublicOfKorokke/Qwen3.5-0.8B-oQ8-fp16-lm"

Configure Hermes

# Install Hermes:
curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash
hermes setup
# Point Hermes at the local server:
hermes config set model.provider custom
hermes config set model.base_url http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1
hermes config set model.default RepublicOfKorokke/Qwen3.5-0.8B-oQ8-fp16-lm

Run Hermes

hermes

MLX LM

How to use RepublicOfKorokke/Qwen3.5-0.8B-oQ8-fp16-lm with MLX LM:

Generate or start a chat session

# Install MLX LM
uv tool install mlx-lm
# Interactive chat REPL
mlx_lm.chat --model "RepublicOfKorokke/Qwen3.5-0.8B-oQ8-fp16-lm"

Run an OpenAI-compatible server

# Install MLX LM
uv tool install mlx-lm
# Start the server
mlx_lm.server --model "RepublicOfKorokke/Qwen3.5-0.8B-oQ8-fp16-lm"
# Calling the OpenAI-compatible server with curl
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
   -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
   --data '{
     "model": "RepublicOfKorokke/Qwen3.5-0.8B-oQ8-fp16-lm",
     "messages": [
       {"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}
     ]
   }'

THIS MODEL IS NOT MULTI MODAL

Qwen3.5-0.8B-oQ8

This model was quantized using oQ mixed-precision quantization.

float16 gives ~20% faster prefill on M1/M2 Apple Silicon (native fp16). bfloat16 is safer on M3/M4 and for numerical stability.

Quantization details

Model type: qwen3_5
Bits: 8
Group size: 64
Format: MLX safetensors

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Safetensors

Model size

0.2B params

Tensor type

F16

U32

MLX

Hardware compatibility

8-bit

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