alt.freeweights.qwen / Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-MLX
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Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-MLX

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 759509dSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Text generation model with 77M parameters. Safetensors weights, 290 MB in all. Published by Qwen under Apache-2.0.

77M params290MBQwen2-0.5B-Instruct-MLXsafetensorspermissive
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$ fw get Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-MLX
# manifest sha256 d6a03fd878e3… · 290 MB · 9 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-MLX Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-MLX
From sourceHosted (signed)Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-MLXLast check: 2026-11-15 03:37 UTC

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Size
290 MB
Weights
278 MB (safetensors)
Parameters
77M
Formats
safetensors
Task
text generation
License
Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files
9, each with a sha256
Publisher
Qwen
Added
2026-11-15
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alt.freeweights.qwen
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Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-MLX#

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 and GitHub. This is the MLX quantized model of Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct.

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#

Run the following commands to install the required MLX packages.

pip install mlx-lm mlx -U

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 mlx_lm import load, generate

model, tokenizer = load('Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-MLX', tokenizer_config={"eos_token": "<|im_end|>"})

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
)

response = generate(model, tokenizer, prompt=text, verbose=True, top_p=0.8, temp=0.7, repetition_penalty=1.05, max_tokens=512)

Citation#

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

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

Files

9 files · 290 MBWeights 278 MB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
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.gitattributes1.52 KB11ad7efa24975ee4b0c3c3a38ed18737f0658a5f75a0a96787b576a78a023361
README.md2.54 KB4e6602113c79744cc850e25b63932ea05d7ef82bbfbaaee8aeb7bd8a0639e41d
config.json783 B3c17e2500e3964c68277fdc7a68cda16bc3f0a5d6582fdc100aefb145f14a29f
merges.txt1.67 MB8831e4f1a044471340f7c0a83d7bd71306a5b867e95fd870f74d0c5308a904d5
model.safetensors278 MB961b4727c18aec86456a213028e08f54cbe0081ad7b9e3e5eccfd967e47387dd
model.safetensors.index.json44.2 KB54001cb4c11197119c206dde28e7be08e5872aab6c6d271aed339ec77e84f870
tokenizer.json7.03 MBa12e3ba5d5e0ad173cf7b408ab8534c6be8cbc6a146714e9c7dc8cf2346603b1
tokenizer_config.json1.30 KBc8f4ae7809a0d555cce69fa8632f03e1294c779f0103df48b2b1f85acb82d1d3
vocab.json2.78 MBca10d7e9fb3ed18575dd1e277a2579c16d108e32f27439684afa0e10b1440910
VersionsEach time the pinned upstream commit or file list changed in this repo. Newest first.
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759509dd02 pinned now2026-11-15 03:37 UTC9 files · 290 MB

Use it

$ fw get Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-MLX
# manifest sha256 d6a03fd878e3… · 290 MB · 9 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-MLX Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-MLX
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-MLX.json --dir ./Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-MLX $ python3 fw.py verify ./Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-MLX ./Qwen__Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-MLX.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-MLX --revision 759509dd0249685cbdeaa4e587679fabe366b918 --local-dir ./Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-MLX
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-MLX", revision="759509dd0249685cbdeaa4e587679fabe366b918") model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-MLX", revision="759509dd0249685cbdeaa4e587679fabe366b918", device_map="auto")
vLLMServe an OpenAI-compatible API.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com vllm serve Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-MLX --revision 759509dd0249685cbdeaa4e587679fabe366b918

License

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Apache License 2.0
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From: Qwen <huggingface.co/Qwen>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject: Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-MLXDate: 2026-11-15Commit: 759509dSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
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Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-MLX
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759509dd0249685cbdeaa4e587679fabe366b918
Manifest
Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-MLX.json · .minisig
Manifest sha256
d6a03fd878e3c1c68d51999690a0f0c9057d5a6e71706935d87170f908875c31
Signature
minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B
Created
2026-11-15 03:37 UTC
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minisign, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B. Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct-MLX.json. Provenance. Takedown history: none.
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