Z-Image — MLX quant-matrix (SceneWorks re-host)
Pre-built MLX (Apple Silicon) quantization tiers of Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image, hosted by SceneWorks for direct, ready-to-run loading in the SceneWorks desktop app (no install-time conversion, no gated download).
Tiers
Each subdirectory is a complete, self-contained snapshot (transformer + Qwen3 text encoder + VAE + tokenizer + scheduler) that the SceneWorks z_image engine loads directly:
| Tier | Subdir | Precision | Use |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 (default) | q4/ |
4-bit group-affine (group 64) weights; dense norms | smallest footprint (undistilled base, real CFG) |
| Q8 | q8/ |
8-bit group-affine weights | higher fidelity |
| bf16 | bf16/ |
dense bf16 | maximum fidelity |
The transformer, text encoder, and VAE attention are quantized in the Q4/Q8 tiers; the bf16 tier is the full dense model. The packed weights auto-detect their quantization on load (no manifest needed).
License
Apache-2.0, inherited from the upstream Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image. This is an unmodified-weights re-host (re-quantized for MLX). All credit to the Tongyi-MAI team.