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Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-GGUF

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 9217f5dSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Text generation model. Gguf weights, 5.37 GB in all. Published by Qwen under Apache-2.0.

qwen5.37GBQwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-GGUFggufpermissive
FactsParamsnot statedSize5.37 GBFormatsggufTasktext generationLicenseApache-2.0From sourcepermissive
$ fw get Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-GGUF
# manifest sha256 d3544539ad9c… · 5.37 GB · 12 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-GGUF Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-GGUF
From sourceHosted (signed)Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-GGUFLast check: 2026-11-15 04:35 UTC

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Overview

Size
5.37 GB
Weights
415 MB (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
Section
alt.freeweights.qwen
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Base model: Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct

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Qwen2.5-0.5B-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 0.5B 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: 0.49B
  • Number of Paramaters (Non-Embedding): 0.36B
  • Number of Layers: 24
  • Number of Attention Heads (GQA): 14 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
   pip install -U huggingface_hub
  1. Download:
   huggingface-cli download Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-GGUF qwen2.5-0.5b-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:

./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.

@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}
}

Files

12 files · 5.37 GBWeights 415 MB (smallest of 9 GGUF variants). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
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FileSizesha256
.gitattributes1.56 KB17f71b31ccd4fd9ca414244ed3226bd6048b297fa211f242b1f3317e012d16d9
LICENSE11.3 KB832dd9e00a68dd83b3c3fb9f5588dad7dcf337a0db50f7d9483f310cd292e92e
README.md4.86 KBfa1fede7f775a20f111cc098c00900092020572ce78976970a5b0ad9ca211999
qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-fp16.gguf1.27 GB8e0ae26000627ed62de0e78e41860af70094558b9d2913385c842a6aa06cf3fc
qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-q2_k.gguf415 MB9ee36184e616dfc76df4f5dd66f908dbde6979524ae36e6cefb67f532f798cb8
qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-q3_k_m.gguf432 MB590d2479d401db206fe12a4562294d2de6211e06338a6e34fbad64b32f1469d0
qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-q4_0.gguf429 MB7671c0c304e6ce5a7fc577bcb12aba01e2c155cc2efd29b2213c95b18edaf6ed
qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-q4_k_m.gguf491 MB74a4da8c9fdbcd15bd1f6d01d621410d31c6fc00986f5eb687824e7b93d7a9db
qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-q5_0.gguf490 MB925946ab27801fea3eead42933f857b6449c6d299f062e374cee2ac48426f2a5
qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-q5_k_m.gguf522 MB041474553fcabfc2a2d67903f9d2c2e50bd92528e670da4f33b5d0ce6e59fd55
qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-q6_k.gguf650 MB2f82233630c349ccf6b8daccf48f9a7865713d9f08a2eadfa456cebe9b97c7f5
qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-q8_0.gguf676 MBca59ca7f13d0e15a8cfa77bd17e65d24f6844b554a7b6c12e07a5f89ff76844e
VersionsEach time the pinned upstream commit or file list changed in this repo. Newest first.
Upstream commitDateContents
9217f5db79 pinned now2026-11-15 04:35 UTC12 files · 5.37 GB

Use it

$ fw get Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-GGUF
# manifest sha256 d3544539ad9c… · 5.37 GB · 12 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-GGUF Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-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/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-GGUF.json --dir ./Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-GGUF $ python3 fw.py verify ./Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-GGUF ./Qwen__Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-GGUF.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-GGUF --revision 9217f5db79a29953eb74d5343926648285ec7e67 --local-dir ./Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-GGUF
llama.cppDownload one GGUF variant (qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-q2_k, 415 MB), then serve it.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-GGUF --include "qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-q2_k*" --local-dir ./Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-GGUF $ llama-server -m ./Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-GGUF/qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-q2_k.gguf
OllamaMake an Ollama model from the downloaded file.
$ printf 'FROM ./Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-GGUF/qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-q2_k.gguf\n' > Modelfile $ ollama create qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-gguf -f Modelfile

License

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From: Qwen <huggingface.co/Qwen>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject: Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-GGUFDate: 2026-11-15Commit: 9217f5dSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
Upstream
Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-GGUF
Pinned commit
9217f5db79a29953eb74d5343926648285ec7e67
Manifest
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-GGUF.json · .minisig
Manifest sha256
d3544539ad9c06a7cf03738618efacd049a64afcae1e4998986d0f28a6bfdedd
Signature
minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B
Created
2026-11-15 04:35 UTC
Generator
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$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-GGUF.json $ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-GGUF.json.minisig $ minisign -Vm Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-GGUF.json -P RWQ7KGqyx4zCLXtUFOqvfv8L3g+8fpKJ1FsuxPyOYMF+4KufbUxKq1Oq $ shasum -a 256 <file> # compare with the Files tab

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Signed manifest
minisign, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B. Qwen2.5-0.5B-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