alt.freeweights.qwen / Qwen2.5-0.5B
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Qwen2.5-0.5B

Date: 2026-11-14Commit: 060db64Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

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

494M params1,000MBQwen2.5-0.5Bsafetensorspermissive
FactsParams494MSize1,000 MBFormatssafetensorsTasktext generationLicenseApache-2.0From sourcepermissive
$ fw get Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B
# manifest sha256 cd0393bd0813… · 1,000 MB · 10 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen2.5-0.5B Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B
From sourceHosted (signed)Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5BLast check: 2026-11-14 21:11 UTC

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Size
1,000 MB
Weights
988 MB (safetensors)
Parameters
494M
Formats
safetensors
Task
text generation
License
Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files
10, each with a sha256
Publisher
Qwen
Added
2026-11-14
Section
alt.freeweights.qwen
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Qwen2.5-0.5B#

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 base 0.5B Qwen2.5 model, which has the following features:

  • Type: Causal Language Models
  • Training Stage: Pretraining
  • 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

We do not recommend using base language models for conversations. Instead, you can apply post-training, e.g., SFT, RLHF, continued pretraining, etc., on this model.

For more details, please refer to our blog, GitHub, and Documentation.

Requirements#

The code of Qwen2.5 has been in the latest Hugging face transformers and we advise you to use the latest version of transformers.

With transformers<4.37.0, you will encounter the following error:

KeyError: 'qwen2'

Evaluation & Performance#

Detailed evaluation results are reported in this 📑 blog.

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

10 files · 1,000 MBWeights 988 MB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
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.gitattributes1.52 KB11ad7efa24975ee4b0c3c3a38ed18737f0658a5f75a0a96787b576a78a023361
LICENSE11.3 KB832dd9e00a68dd83b3c3fb9f5588dad7dcf337a0db50f7d9483f310cd292e92e
README.md3.85 KB3c93cbc9f60417337fcbf093da872007586b9d886b0f0187f21aec35b869616a
config.json681 B479dcf0c5286339e41ad3992cd08ae88a467c4187587936248e2b7c96283484b
generation_config.json138 B8c970692323e3ea0e9b8b0a4dca79388d31226e41f83c9fd6014804280ebf6e8
merges.txt1.67 MB599bab54075088774b1733fde865d5bd747cbcc7a547c5bc12610e874e26f5e3
model.safetensors988 MB88c142557820ccad55bb59756bfcfcf891de9cc6202816bd346445188a0ed342
tokenizer.json7.03 MBc0382117ea329cdf097041132f6d735924b697924d6f6fc3945713e96ce87539
tokenizer_config.json7.23 KBc91efca15ceff6e9ee9424db58a6f59cd41294e550a86cbd07e3c1fb500b34f9
vocab.json2.78 MBca10d7e9fb3ed18575dd1e277a2579c16d108e32f27439684afa0e10b1440910
VersionsEach time the pinned upstream commit or file list changed in this repo. Newest first.
Upstream commitDateContents
060db6499f pinned now manifest updated, same commit2026-11-14 21:11 UTC10 files · 1,000 MB
060db6499f2026-11-14 21:11 UTC10 files · 1,000 MB

Use it

$ fw get Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B
# manifest sha256 cd0393bd0813… · 1,000 MB · 10 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen2.5-0.5B Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B
fw.pyChecks the signature and every sha256, tries each source in order, resumes.
$ python3 fw.py get https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B.json --dir ./Qwen2.5-0.5B $ python3 fw.py verify ./Qwen2.5-0.5B ./Qwen__Qwen2.5-0.5B.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B --revision 060db6499f32faf8b98477b0a26969ef7d8b9987 --local-dir ./Qwen2.5-0.5B
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/Qwen2.5-0.5B", revision="060db6499f32faf8b98477b0a26969ef7d8b9987") model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B", revision="060db6499f32faf8b98477b0a26969ef7d8b9987", device_map="auto")
vLLMServe an OpenAI-compatible API.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com vllm serve Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B --revision 060db6499f32faf8b98477b0a26969ef7d8b9987

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From: Qwen <huggingface.co/Qwen>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject: Qwen2.5-0.5BDate: 2026-11-14Commit: 060db64Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
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Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B
Pinned commit
060db6499f32faf8b98477b0a26969ef7d8b9987
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Qwen2.5-0.5B.json · .minisig
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cd0393bd0813e2d33ed80b7af443efcacc4625caba0984db5e545b8af6df347a
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minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B
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$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B.json $ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B.json.minisig $ minisign -Vm Qwen2.5-0.5B.json -P RWQ7KGqyx4zCLXtUFOqvfv8L3g+8fpKJ1FsuxPyOYMF+4KufbUxKq1Oq $ shasum -a 256 <file> # compare with the Files tab

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8 models in the catalog name this one as their parent.

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Download
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B
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Pull, verify and run it in the Allternit app on Desktop, web or phone.

Signed manifest
minisign, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B. Qwen2.5-0.5B.json. Provenance. Takedown history: none.

Variants

3 quantized or adapter builds of Qwen2.5-0.5B. 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