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Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-GPTQ-Int8

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 9a4176aSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Text generation model with 630M parameters. Safetensors weights, 1.47 GB in all. Published by Qwen under Apache-2.0.

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$ fw get Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-GPTQ-Int8
# manifest sha256 cef641968517… · 1.47 GB · 10 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-GPTQ-Int8 Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-GPTQ-Int8
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1.47 GB
Weights
1.46 GB (safetensors)
Parameters
630M
Formats
safetensors
Task
text generation
License
Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files
10, each with a sha256
Publisher
Qwen
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2026-11-15
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Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-GPTQ-Int8#

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 instruction-tuned 0.5B Qwen2 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.

Note: If you encounter RuntimeError: probability tensor contains either `inf`, `nan` or element < 0 during inference with transformers, we recommand deploying this model with vLLM.

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.

Training details#

We pretrained the models with a large amount of data, and we post-trained the models with both supervised finetuning and direct preference optimization.

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:

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.

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
device = "cuda" # the device to load the model onto

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    "Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-GPTQ-Int8",
    torch_dtype="auto",
    device_map="auto"
)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-GPTQ-Int8")

prompt = "Give me a short introduction to large language model."
messages = [
    {"role": "system", "content": "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(device)

generated_ids = model.generate(
    model_inputs.input_ids,
    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]

Benchmark and Speed#

To compare the generation performance between bfloat16 (bf16) and quantized models such as GPTQ-Int8, GPTQ-Int4, and AWQ, please consult our Benchmark of Quantized Models. This benchmark provides insights into how different quantization techniques affect model performance.

For those interested in understanding the inference speed and memory consumption when deploying these models with either transformer or vLLM, we have compiled an extensive Speed Benchmark.

Citation#

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

@article{qwen2,
  title={Qwen2 Technical Report},
  year={2024}
}

Files

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README.md4.00 KB4d6ffacceb93e36e43f708730c5834c41e0cb8f62b61bae97b63b88087d33b3b
config.json1.26 KBf3e6f828079cb0c6b91fdc59f1634cada26d51e47ed5ec75cba35b01115a28d9
generation_config.json242 Be558847a8b4402616f1273797b015104dc266fe4b520056fca88823ba8f8ebe6
merges.txt1.67 MB599bab54075088774b1733fde865d5bd747cbcc7a547c5bc12610e874e26f5e3
model.safetensors1.46 GB2dc8f75b312b4889b8da7000f0914e33672b9677fe5743d6df3f13d12c381930
tokenizer.json7.03 MBf7c9b2dba4a296b1aa76c16a34b8225c0c118978400d4bb66bff0902d702f5b8
tokenizer_config.json1.29 KB482bd979881423375ca5414e4e0d94cd7c5349dbb17fffd46b4d36d71e62a1bc
vocab.json2.78 MBca10d7e9fb3ed18575dd1e277a2579c16d108e32f27439684afa0e10b1440910
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Use it

$ fw get Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-GPTQ-Int8
# manifest sha256 cef641968517… · 1.47 GB · 10 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-GPTQ-Int8 Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-GPTQ-Int8
fw.pyChecks the signature and every sha256, tries each source in order, resumes.
$ python3 fw.py get https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-GPTQ-Int8.json --dir ./Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-GPTQ-Int8 $ python3 fw.py verify ./Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-GPTQ-Int8 ./Qwen__Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-GPTQ-Int8.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-GPTQ-Int8 --revision 9a4176a983c5b39c193fed6fe9c2565662ff2e12 --local-dir ./Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-GPTQ-Int8
transformersLoad the weights in Python.
import os os.environ["HF_ENDPOINT"] = "https://freeweights.allternit.com" from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-GPTQ-Int8", revision="9a4176a983c5b39c193fed6fe9c2565662ff2e12") model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-GPTQ-Int8", revision="9a4176a983c5b39c193fed6fe9c2565662ff2e12", device_map="auto")
vLLMServe an OpenAI-compatible API.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com vllm serve Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-GPTQ-Int8 --revision 9a4176a983c5b39c193fed6fe9c2565662ff2e12

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From: Qwen <huggingface.co/Qwen>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject: Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-GPTQ-Int8Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 9a4176aSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
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Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-GPTQ-Int8.json · .minisig
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