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Qwen2-7B-Instruct-GGUF

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: c3024c6Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Text generation model. Gguf weights, 56.3 GB in all. Published by Qwen under Apache-2.0.

qwen56.3GBQwen2-7B-Instruct-GGUFggufpermissive
FactsParamsnot statedSize56.3 GBFormatsggufTasktext generationLicenseApache-2.0From sourcepermissive
$ fw get Qwen/Qwen2-7B-Instruct-GGUF
# manifest sha256 978c74423e61… · 56.3 GB · 12 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen2-7B-Instruct-GGUF Qwen/Qwen2-7B-Instruct-GGUF
From sourceHosted (signed)Qwen/Qwen2-7B-Instruct-GGUFLast check: 2026-11-15 04:50 UTC

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Size
56.3 GB
Weights
3.02 GB (smallest of 9 GGUF variants)
Parameters
not stated
Formats
gguf
Task
text generation
License
Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files
12, each with a sha256
Publisher
Qwen
Added
2026-11-15
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Qwen2-7B-Instruct-GGUF#

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 7B 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.

In this repo, we provide fp16 model and quantized models in the GGUF formats, including q5_0, q5_k_m, q6_k and q8_0.

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#

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.

How to use#

Cloning the repo may be inefficient, and thus you can manually download the GGUF file that you need or use huggingface-cli (pip install huggingface_hub) as shown below:

huggingface-cli download Qwen/Qwen2-7B-Instruct-GGUF qwen2-7b-instruct-q5_k_m.gguf --local-dir . --local-dir-use-symlinks False

To run Qwen2, you can use llama-cli (the previous main) or llama-server (the previous server). We recommend using the llama-server as it is simple and compatible with OpenAI API. For example:

./llama-server -m qwen2-7b-instruct-q5_k_m.gguf -ngl 28 -fa

(Note: -ngl 28 refers to offloading 24 layers to GPUs, and -fa refers to the use of flash attention.)

Then it is easy to access the deployed service with OpenAI API:

import openai

client = openai.OpenAI(
    base_url="http://localhost:8080/v1", # "http://<Your api-server IP>:port"
    api_key = "sk-no-key-required"
)

completion = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="qwen",
    messages=[
        {"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant."},
        {"role": "user", "content": "tell me something about michael jordan"}
    ]
)
print(completion.choices[0].message.content)

If you choose to use llama-cli, pay attention to the removal of -cml for the ChatML template. Instead you should use --in-prefix and --in-suffix to tackle this problem.

./llama-cli -m qwen2-7b-instruct-q5_k_m.gguf \
  -n 512 -co -i -if -f prompts/chat-with-qwen.txt \
  --in-prefix "<|im_start|>user\n" \
  --in-suffix "<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>assistant\n" \
  -ngl 24 -fa

Evaluation#

We implement perplexity evaluation using wikitext following the practice of llama.cpp with ./llama-perplexity (the previous ./perplexity). In the following we report the PPL of GGUF models of different sizes and different quantization levels.

Sizefp16q8_0q6_kq5_k_mq5_0q4_k_mq4_0q3_k_mq2_kiq1_m
0.5B15.1115.1315.1415.2415.4015.3616.2815.7016.74-
1.5B10.4310.4310.4510.5010.5610.6110.7911.0813.04-
7B7.937.947.967.977.988.028.198.2010.58-
57B-A14B6.816.816.836.846.896.997.027.43--
72B5.585.585.595.595.605.615.665.685.916.75

Citation#

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

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

Files

12 files · 56.3 GBWeights 3.02 GB (smallest of 9 GGUF variants). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
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LICENSE11.3 KB832dd9e00a68dd83b3c3fb9f5588dad7dcf337a0db50f7d9483f310cd292e92e
README.md4.82 KBbb6fb1a45e06b455fc6b58f4b1f6229acef602f71bc42c37f7c8c894c1aa08af
qwen2-7b-instruct-fp16.gguf15.2 GB38227ded455e508bba9c86c8c793a4352a67c15c93be069d2bd062cd2fdcac2f
qwen2-7b-instruct-q2_k.gguf3.02 GBd5ff4cd09d3accd9ca21bf41580e93190030b066c2fe669afa6887dcad31546e
qwen2-7b-instruct-q3_k_m.gguf3.81 GB31dca2fb3df2d4981d1d7a011670bfcaf5f22f0ec1d2b9a5fdb81410990fc1b4
qwen2-7b-instruct-q4_0.gguf4.44 GBc188f9260d419ff6b38c4630f19ffd260caed3559506206ba344aceb9c90f90c
qwen2-7b-instruct-q4_k_m.gguf4.68 GBed93dfc426f926451fa3ec7f996a787a31cfd97e55d7769568fbffc2d69861c2
qwen2-7b-instruct-q5_0.gguf5.33 GB51b81b3f2b9af8415a7a27f8a986d921c7f6ca8a87fe63b51e90142a8bcdc969
qwen2-7b-instruct-q5_k_m.gguf5.44 GB7aeb11bb9b36d47625bd61514a3ac085826537144b375bb1d66b42738127e425
qwen2-7b-instruct-q6_k.gguf6.25 GB0a475cc3b3eb3b9723bd063919273cee7987e84d468347a59c2ed2bded0fb21a
qwen2-7b-instruct-q8_0.gguf8.10 GB945823750c8eb6aa685692753ae90cd9551a56618d03051241268f53cdbd8352
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Use it

$ fw get Qwen/Qwen2-7B-Instruct-GGUF
# manifest sha256 978c74423e61… · 56.3 GB · 12 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen2-7B-Instruct-GGUF Qwen/Qwen2-7B-Instruct-GGUF
fw.pyChecks the signature and every sha256, tries each source in order, resumes.
$ python3 fw.py get https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/Qwen/Qwen2-7B-Instruct-GGUF.json --dir ./Qwen2-7B-Instruct-GGUF $ python3 fw.py verify ./Qwen2-7B-Instruct-GGUF ./Qwen__Qwen2-7B-Instruct-GGUF.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download Qwen/Qwen2-7B-Instruct-GGUF --revision c3024c6fff0a02d52119ecee024bbb93d4b4b8e4 --local-dir ./Qwen2-7B-Instruct-GGUF
llama.cppDownload one GGUF variant (qwen2-7b-instruct-q2_k, 3.02 GB), then serve it.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download Qwen/Qwen2-7B-Instruct-GGUF --include "qwen2-7b-instruct-q2_k*" --local-dir ./Qwen2-7B-Instruct-GGUF $ llama-server -m ./Qwen2-7B-Instruct-GGUF/qwen2-7b-instruct-q2_k.gguf
OllamaMake an Ollama model from the downloaded file.
$ printf 'FROM ./Qwen2-7B-Instruct-GGUF/qwen2-7b-instruct-q2_k.gguf\n' > Modelfile $ ollama create qwen2-7b-instruct-gguf -f Modelfile

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From: Qwen <huggingface.co/Qwen>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject: Qwen2-7B-Instruct-GGUFDate: 2026-11-15Commit: c3024c6Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
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Qwen/Qwen2-7B-Instruct-GGUF
Pinned commit
c3024c6fff0a02d52119ecee024bbb93d4b4b8e4
Manifest
Qwen2-7B-Instruct-GGUF.json · .minisig
Manifest sha256
978c74423e61c95131ba52d7e398d2438b91d18999759170d7d35ea4564f396b
Signature
minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B
Created
2026-11-15 04:50 UTC
Generator
freeweights-manifest/0.1.0
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minisign, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B. Qwen2-7B-Instruct-GGUF.json. Provenance. Takedown history: none.
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