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HomeLLMsQwen2.5 0.5B Instruct

Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct

by Qwen

Open source · 5M downloads · 495 likes

3.4
(495 reviews)ChatAPI & Local
About

The Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct model is an optimized instruction-following version of a lightweight large language model, capable of understanding and generating text based on precise prompts. Through extensive training, it excels in diverse tasks such as programming, mathematics, and structured data analysis, while producing detailed and well-formatted responses, including in JSON. It supports over 29 languages and can process long contexts up to 128,000 tokens, with generation capabilities reaching 8,000 tokens, making it suitable for complex interactions and lengthy documents. Its lightweight architecture and enhanced instruction-following capabilities set it apart, offering a high-performance alternative for applications requiring both precision and versatility, even on limited resources. Ideal for chatbots, conversational assistance, or text automation tasks, it combines efficiency with adaptability.

Documentation

Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct

Introduction

Qwen2.5 is the latest series of Qwen large language models. For Qwen2.5, we release a number of base language models and instruction-tuned language models ranging from 0.5 to 72 billion parameters. Qwen2.5 brings the following improvements upon Qwen2:

  • Significantly more knowledge and has greatly improved capabilities in coding and mathematics, thanks to our specialized expert models in these domains.
  • Significant improvements in instruction following, generating long texts (over 8K tokens), understanding structured data (e.g, tables), and generating structured outputs especially JSON. More resilient to the diversity of system prompts, enhancing role-play implementation and condition-setting for chatbots.
  • Long-context Support up to 128K tokens and can generate up to 8K tokens.
  • Multilingual support for over 29 languages, including Chinese, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Arabic, and more.

This repo contains the instruction-tuned 0.5B Qwen2.5 model, which has the following features:

  • Type: Causal Language Models
  • Training Stage: Pretraining & Post-training
  • Architecture: transformers with RoPE, SwiGLU, RMSNorm, Attention QKV bias and tied word embeddings
  • Number of Parameters: 0.49B
  • Number of Paramaters (Non-Embedding): 0.36B
  • Number of Layers: 24
  • Number of Attention Heads (GQA): 14 for Q and 2 for KV
  • Context Length: Full 32,768 tokens and generation 8192 tokens

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

Requirements

The code of Qwen2.5 has been in the latest Hugging face transformers and we advise you to use the latest version of transformers.

With transformers<4.37.0, you will encounter the following error:

VB.NET
KeyError: 'qwen2'

Quickstart

Here provides a code snippet with apply_chat_template to show you how to load the tokenizer and model and how to generate contents.

Python
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model_name = "Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct"

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    model_name,
    torch_dtype="auto",
    device_map="auto"
)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)

prompt = "Give me a short introduction to large language model."
messages = [
    {"role": "system", "content": "You are Qwen, created by Alibaba Cloud. You are a helpful assistant."},
    {"role": "user", "content": prompt}
]
text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
    messages,
    tokenize=False,
    add_generation_prompt=True
)
model_inputs = tokenizer([text], return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)

generated_ids = model.generate(
    **model_inputs,
    max_new_tokens=512
)
generated_ids = [
    output_ids[len(input_ids):] for input_ids, output_ids in zip(model_inputs.input_ids, generated_ids)
]

response = tokenizer.batch_decode(generated_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)[0]

Evaluation & Performance

Detailed evaluation results are reported in this 📑 blog.

For requirements on GPU memory and the respective throughput, see results here.

Citation

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

INI
@misc{qwen2.5,
    title = {Qwen2.5: A Party of Foundation Models},
    url = {https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5/},
    author = {Qwen Team},
    month = {September},
    year = {2024}
}

@article{qwen2,
      title={Qwen2 Technical Report}, 
      author={An Yang and Baosong Yang and Binyuan Hui and Bo Zheng and Bowen Yu and Chang Zhou and Chengpeng Li and Chengyuan Li and Dayiheng Liu and Fei Huang and Guanting Dong and Haoran Wei and Huan Lin and Jialong Tang and Jialin Wang and Jian Yang and Jianhong Tu and Jianwei Zhang and Jianxin Ma and Jin Xu and Jingren Zhou and Jinze Bai and Jinzheng He and Junyang Lin and Kai Dang and Keming Lu and Keqin Chen and Kexin Yang and Mei Li and Mingfeng Xue and Na Ni and Pei Zhang and Peng Wang and Ru Peng and Rui Men and Ruize Gao and Runji Lin and Shijie Wang and Shuai Bai and Sinan Tan and Tianhang Zhu and Tianhao Li and Tianyu Liu and Wenbin Ge and Xiaodong Deng and Xiaohuan Zhou and Xingzhang Ren and Xinyu Zhang and Xipin Wei and Xuancheng Ren and Yang Fan and Yang Yao and Yichang Zhang and Yu Wan and Yunfei Chu and Yuqiong Liu and Zeyu Cui and Zhenru Zhang and Zhihao Fan},
      journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.10671},
      year={2024}
}
Capabilities & Tags
transformerssafetensorsqwen2text-generationchatconversationalentext-generation-inferenceendpoints_compatible
Links & Resources
Specifications
CategoryChat
AccessAPI & Local
LicenseOpen Source
PricingOpen Source
Parameters5B parameters
Rating
3.4

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