mlx-community/Z-Image-bf16

MLX (bf16) conversion of Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image (Apache-2.0) for Apple Silicon — a 6.15B single-stream S3-DiT text-to-image model (Qwen3-4B thinking-template conditioning → single-stream DiT → FLUX.1-dev AE decode). Base tier: non-distilled ~28-step with CFG + negative prompts (scheduler shift 6.0) — the quality / LoRA-substrate tier.

Standard diffusers-tree snapshot (transformer/ text_encoder/ vae/ tokenizer/ scheduler/) with the transformer stored at bf16. Loaded by the Swift/MLX port; int8/int4 are produced at load time (correct resident footprint — a q4 pipeline ≈ 6 GB fits a 16 GB Mac).

Parity (Swift port vs PyTorch goldens, fp32/CPU stream)

• Full 6.15B S3-DiT: cosine ≥0.9999999 (both aligned + padded token cases)
• FLUX.1-dev AE decode: 118 dB · Qwen3-4B encoder: token ids exact, features cosine 1.0000000
• Full pipeline e2e: 105–108 dB (256²/CPU)

Use (Swift / MLXEngine)

import MLXZImage
import MLXToolKit
let package = ZImageTurboT2IPackage(configuration: .turbo(quant: .int4, snapshotPath: "<this repo dir>"))
try await package.load()
let r = try await package.run(T2IRequest(prompt: "a lighthouse at dusk, photorealistic",
                                         width: 1024, height: 1024, seed: 42)) as! T2IResponse

Code: https://github.com/xocialize/z-image-swift