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HomeLLMsQwen2.5 3B Instruct GGUF

Qwen2.5 3B Instruct GGUF

by Qwen

Open source · 407k downloads · 103 likes

2.5
(103 reviews)ChatAPI & Local
About

The Qwen2.5 3B Instruct GGUF model is an optimized and lightweight version of the Qwen2.5 model, specifically designed for text generation and conversational assistance tasks. Through extensive training, it excels in understanding and generating structured responses, including JSON formats, as well as following complex instructions or role-playing scenarios. It supports over 29 languages and demonstrates strong robustness when handling diverse prompts, while generating long-form text exceeding 8,000 tokens. Its capabilities span domains such as programming, mathematics, and tabular data analysis, making it versatile for professional or educational applications. The model stands out for its balance between performance and efficiency, thanks to optimizations like GGUF quantization, which ensures smooth operation even on modest hardware configurations. Ideal for developers, researchers, or businesses, it simplifies the creation of conversational agents, automated analysis tools, or decision-support systems.

Documentation

Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-GGUF

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 3B Qwen2.5 model in the GGUF Format, 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: 3.09B
  • Number of Paramaters (Non-Embedding): 2.77B
  • Number of Layers: 36
  • Number of Attention Heads (GQA): 16 for Q and 2 for KV
  • Context Length: Full 32,768 tokens and generation 8192 tokens
  • Quantization: q2_K, q3_K_M, q4_0, q4_K_M, q5_0, q5_K_M, q6_K, q8_0

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

Quickstart

Check out our llama.cpp documentation for more usage guide.

We advise you to clone llama.cpp and install it following the official guide. We follow the latest version of llama.cpp. In the following demonstration, we assume that you are running commands under the repository llama.cpp.

Since cloning the entire repo may be inefficient, you can manually download the GGUF file that you need or use huggingface-cli:

  1. Install
    Shell
    pip install -U huggingface_hub
    
  2. Download:
    Shell
    huggingface-cli download Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-GGUF qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q5_k_m.gguf --local-dir . --local-dir-use-symlinks False
    

For users, to achieve chatbot-like experience, it is recommended to commence in the conversation mode:

Shell
./llama-cli -m <gguf-file-path> \
    -co -cnv -p "You are Qwen, created by Alibaba Cloud. You are a helpful assistant." \
    -fa -ngl 80 -n 512

Evaluation & Performance

Detailed evaluation results are reported in this 📑 blog.

For quantized models, the benchmark results against the original bfloat16 models can be found here

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
ggufchattext-generationenendpoints_compatibleconversational
Links & Resources
Specifications
CategoryChat
AccessAPI & Local
LicenseOpen Source
PricingOpen Source
Parameters3B parameters
Rating
2.5

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