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Qwen2-0.5B

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 91d2affSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Text generation model with 494M parameters. Safetensors weights, 1,000 MB in all. Published by Qwen under Apache-2.0.

494M params1,000MBQwen2-0.5Bsafetensorspermissive
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$ fw get Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B
# manifest sha256 bb244d85e505… · 1,000 MB · 10 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen2-0.5B Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B
From sourceHosted (signed)Qwen/Qwen2-0.5BLast check: 2026-11-15 02:29 UTC

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1,000 MB
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988 MB (safetensors)
Parameters
494M
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text generation
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Apache-2.0 (permissive)
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10, each with a sha256
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Qwen
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2026-11-15
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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:

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.

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

Files

10 files · 1,000 MBWeights 988 MB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
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.gitattributes1.52 KB11ad7efa24975ee4b0c3c3a38ed18737f0658a5f75a0a96787b576a78a023361
LICENSE11.3 KBc156170b718ec29139d3653d40ed1986fd92fb7e0959b5c71f3c48f62e6636f4
README.md4.03 KBba71ba6eb57c559e4b1238fdf53aac5a9487b3805e16d9d33ecfb84504657583
config.json661 Bb2388df676bbbe4f6aae6b617bdfa6e7c471c7a5b23862baae3dfbf85a5fe9ef
generation_config.json138 B8c970692323e3ea0e9b8b0a4dca79388d31226e41f83c9fd6014804280ebf6e8
merges.txt1.67 MB599bab54075088774b1733fde865d5bd747cbcc7a547c5bc12610e874e26f5e3
model.safetensors988 MB9cd8fc8c85a197b8c551d6b931b5709fe2611889d6b44945876472fecdf77cad
tokenizer.json7.03 MBf7c9b2dba4a296b1aa76c16a34b8225c0c118978400d4bb66bff0902d702f5b8
tokenizer_config.json1.29 KB80d64fccf954f022eb43b7425eb45a133cbb92c76a5f24d4cea6dbe3d45548d9
vocab.json2.78 MBca10d7e9fb3ed18575dd1e277a2579c16d108e32f27439684afa0e10b1440910
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91d2aff3f9 pinned now2026-11-15 02:29 UTC10 files · 1,000 MB

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$ fw get Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B
# manifest sha256 bb244d85e505… · 1,000 MB · 10 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen2-0.5B Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B
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.json --dir ./Qwen2-0.5B $ python3 fw.py verify ./Qwen2-0.5B ./Qwen__Qwen2-0.5B.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B --revision 91d2aff3f957f99e4c74c962f2f408dcc88a18d8 --local-dir ./Qwen2-0.5B
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", revision="91d2aff3f957f99e4c74c962f2f408dcc88a18d8") model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B", revision="91d2aff3f957f99e4c74c962f2f408dcc88a18d8", device_map="auto")
vLLMServe an OpenAI-compatible API.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com vllm serve Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B --revision 91d2aff3f957f99e4c74c962f2f408dcc88a18d8

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From: Qwen <huggingface.co/Qwen>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject: Qwen2-0.5BDate: 2026-11-15Commit: 91d2affSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
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Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B
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91d2aff3f957f99e4c74c962f2f408dcc88a18d8
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Qwen2-0.5B.json · .minisig
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bb244d85e5050a4e582a5d096452b7858ac984ea4c6a40beb43a099d32753639
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Variants

1 quantized or adapter build of Qwen2-0.5B. Each has its own license check and page.

From: BAAI <huggingface.co/BAAI>Subject: Aquila-VL-2B-llava-qwen
From: Perciqa <huggingface.co/Perciqa>Subject: Aurora-Code-1
From: BAAI <huggingface.co/BAAI>Subject: bge-reasoner-embed-qwen3-8b-0923
From: amazon <huggingface.co/amazon>Subject: BMOJOF-primed-HQwen3-8B-Instruct
From: nbeerbower <huggingface.co/nbeerbower>Subject: Bubba-Qwen3.6-27B-LoRA
From: bartowski <huggingface.co/bartowski>Subject: bytkim_Qwen3.8-27B-pi-GGUF