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Qwen2 0.5B

by Qwen

Open source · 401k downloads · 165 likes

2.8
(165 reviews)ChatAPI & Local
About

Qwen2 0.5B is a small-scale base language model (0.5 billion parameters) from the Qwen2 series, designed to deliver high performance across diverse domains such as linguistic comprehension, text generation, reasoning, mathematics, and programming. Unlike specialized models, it stands out for its versatility and ability to compete with proprietary models on a variety of benchmarks while remaining accessible due to its compact size. Although it is not optimized for direct text generation use, it serves as an ideal starting point for subsequent adaptations, such as supervised fine-tuning or reinforcement learning. Its strengths lie in its robust multilingual capabilities, covering languages like English and Chinese as well as others, and in its efficiency on technical tasks like coding or mathematical problem-solving. The model thus embodies a balance between performance and accessibility, making it well-suited for developers and researchers looking to explore advanced applications without requiring excessive computational resources.

Documentation

Qwen2-0.5B

Introduction

Qwen2 is the new series of Qwen large language models. For Qwen2, we release a number of base language models and instruction-tuned language models ranging from 0.5 to 72 billion parameters, including a Mixture-of-Experts model. This repo contains the 0.5B Qwen2 base language model.

Compared with the state-of-the-art opensource language models, including the previous released Qwen1.5, Qwen2 has generally surpassed most opensource models and demonstrated competitiveness against proprietary models across a series of benchmarks targeting for language understanding, language generation, multilingual capability, coding, mathematics, reasoning, etc.

For more details, please refer to our blog, GitHub, and Documentation.

Model Details

Qwen2 is a language model series including decoder language models of different model sizes. For each size, we release the base language model and the aligned chat model. It is based on the Transformer architecture with SwiGLU activation, attention QKV bias, group query attention, etc. Additionally, we have an improved tokenizer adaptive to multiple natural languages and codes.

Requirements

The code of Qwen2 has been in the latest Hugging face transformers and we advise you to install transformers>=4.37.0, or you might encounter the following error:

VB.NET
KeyError: 'qwen2'

Usage

We do not advise you to use base language models for text generation. Instead, you can apply post-training, e.g., SFT, RLHF, continued pretraining, etc., on this model.

Performance

The evaluation of base models mainly focuses on the model performance of natural language understanding, general question answering, coding, mathematics, scientific knowledge, reasoning, multilingual capability, etc.

The datasets for evaluation include:

English Tasks: MMLU (5-shot), MMLU-Pro (5-shot), GPQA (5shot), Theorem QA (5-shot), BBH (3-shot), HellaSwag (10-shot), Winogrande (5-shot), TruthfulQA (0-shot), ARC-C (25-shot)

Coding Tasks: EvalPlus (0-shot) (HumanEval, MBPP, HumanEval+, MBPP+), MultiPL-E (0-shot) (Python, C++, JAVA, PHP, TypeScript, C#, Bash, JavaScript)

Math Tasks: GSM8K (4-shot), MATH (4-shot)

Chinese Tasks: C-Eval(5-shot), CMMLU (5-shot)

Multilingual Tasks: Multi-Exam (M3Exam 5-shot, IndoMMLU 3-shot, ruMMLU 5-shot, mMMLU 5-shot), Multi-Understanding (BELEBELE 5-shot, XCOPA 5-shot, XWinograd 5-shot, XStoryCloze 0-shot, PAWS-X 5-shot), Multi-Mathematics (MGSM 8-shot), Multi-Translation (Flores-101 5-shot)

Qwen2-0.5B & Qwen2-1.5B performances

DatasetsPhi-2Gemma-2BMiniCPMQwen1.5-1.8BQwen2-0.5BQwen2-1.5B
#Non-Emb Params2.5B2.0B2.4B1.3B0.35B1.3B
MMLU52.742.353.546.845.456.5
MMLU-Pro-15.9--14.721.8
Theorem QA----8.915.0
HumanEval47.622.050.020.122.031.1
MBPP55.029.247.318.022.037.4
GSM8K57.217.753.838.436.558.5
MATH3.511.810.210.110.721.7
BBH43.435.236.924.228.437.2
HellaSwag73.171.468.361.449.366.6
Winogrande74.466.8-60.356.866.2
ARC-C61.148.5-37.931.543.9
TruthfulQA44.533.1-39.439.745.9
C-Eval23.428.051.159.758.270.6
CMMLU24.2-51.157.855.170.3

Citation

If you find our work helpful, feel free to give us a cite.

INI
@article{qwen2,
  title={Qwen2 Technical Report},
  year={2024}
}
Capabilities & Tags
transformerssafetensorsqwen2text-generationpretrainedconversationalentext-generation-inferenceendpoints_compatible
Links & Resources
Specifications
CategoryChat
AccessAPI & Local
LicenseOpen Source
PricingOpen Source
Parameters5B parameters
Rating
2.8

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