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Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-GGUF

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 1cd86afSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Image text to text model. Gguf weights, 16.1 GB in all. Published by Qwen under Apache-2.0.

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$ fw get Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-GGUF
# manifest sha256 c9b72ffb1450… · 16.1 GB · 7 files
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16.1 GB
Weights
2.50 GB (smallest of 3 GGUF variants)
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gguf
Task
image text to text
License
Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files
7, each with a sha256
Publisher
Qwen
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2026-11-15
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Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-GGUF#

This repository provides GGUF-format weights for Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct, split into two components:

  • Language model (LLM): FP16, Q8_0, Q4_K_M
  • Vision encoder (mmproj): FP16, Q8_0

These files are compatible with llama.cpp, Ollama, and other GGUF-based tools, supporting inference on CPU, NVIDIA GPU (CUDA), Apple Silicon (Metal), Intel GPUs (SYCL), and more. You can mix precision levels for the language and vision components based on your hardware and performance needs, and even perform custom quantization starting from the FP16 weights.

Enjoy running this multimodal model on your personal device! 🚀

Introduction:#

Meet Qwen3-VL — the most powerful vision-language model in the Qwen series to date.

This generation delivers comprehensive upgrades across the board: superior text understanding & generation, deeper visual perception & reasoning, extended context length, enhanced spatial and video dynamics comprehension, and stronger agent interaction capabilities.

Available in Dense and MoE architectures that scale from edge to cloud, with Instruct and reasoning‑enhanced Thinking editions for flexible, on‑demand deployment.

Key Enhancements:#
  • Visual Agent: Operates PC/mobile GUIs—recognizes elements, understands functions, invokes tools, completes tasks.
  • Visual Coding Boost: Generates Draw.io/HTML/CSS/JS from images/videos.
  • Advanced Spatial Perception: Judges object positions, viewpoints, and occlusions; provides stronger 2D grounding and enables 3D grounding for spatial reasoning and embodied AI.
  • Long Context & Video Understanding: Native 256K context, expandable to 1M; handles books and hours-long video with full recall and second-level indexing.
  • Enhanced Multimodal Reasoning: Excels in STEM/Math—causal analysis and logical, evidence-based answers.
  • Upgraded Visual Recognition: Broader, higher-quality pretraining is able to “recognize everything”—celebrities, anime, products, landmarks, flora/fauna, etc.
  • Expanded OCR: Supports 32 languages (up from 19); robust in low light, blur, and tilt; better with rare/ancient characters and jargon; improved long-document structure parsing.
  • Text Understanding on par with pure LLMs: Seamless text–vision fusion for lossless, unified comprehension.
Model Architecture Updates:#

Image: image

  1. Interleaved-MRoPE: Full‑frequency allocation over time, width, and height via robust positional embeddings, enhancing long‑horizon video reasoning.
  2. DeepStack: Fuses multi‑level ViT features to capture fine‑grained details and sharpen image–text alignment.
  3. Text–Timestamp Alignment: Moves beyond T‑RoPE to precise, timestamp‑grounded event localization for stronger video temporal modeling.

Model Performance#

Multimodal performance

Image: image

Pure text performance Image: image

Generation Hyperparameters#
VL#
export greedy='false'
export top_p=0.8
export top_k=20
export temperature=0.7
export repetition_penalty=1.0
export presence_penalty=1.5
export out_seq_length=16384
Text#
export greedy='false'
export top_p=1.0
export top_k=40
export repetition_penalty=1.0
export presence_penalty=2.0
export temperature=1.0
export out_seq_length=32768

Citation#

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

@misc{qwen3technicalreport,
      title={Qwen3 Technical Report}, 
      author={Qwen Team},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2505.09388},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09388}, 
}

@article{Qwen2.5-VL,
  title={Qwen2.5-VL Technical Report},
  author={Bai, Shuai and Chen, Keqin and Liu, Xuejing and Wang, Jialin and Ge, Wenbin and Song, Sibo and Dang, Kai and Wang, Peng and Wang, Shijie and Tang, Jun and Zhong, Humen and Zhu, Yuanzhi and Yang, Mingkun and Li, Zhaohai and Wan, Jianqiang and Wang, Pengfei and Ding, Wei and Fu, Zheren and Xu, Yiheng and Ye, Jiabo and Zhang, Xi and Xie, Tianbao and Cheng, Zesen and Zhang, Hang and Yang, Zhibo and Xu, Haiyang and Lin, Junyang},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.13923},
  year={2025}
}

@article{Qwen2VL,
  title={Qwen2-VL: Enhancing Vision-Language Model's Perception of the World at Any Resolution},
  author={Wang, Peng and Bai, Shuai and Tan, Sinan and Wang, Shijie and Fan, Zhihao and Bai, Jinze and Chen, Keqin and Liu, Xuejing and Wang, Jialin and Ge, Wenbin and Fan, Yang and Dang, Kai and Du, Mengfei and Ren, Xuancheng and Men, Rui and Liu, Dayiheng and Zhou, Chang and Zhou, Jingren and Lin, Junyang},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.12191},
  year={2024}
}

@article{Qwen-VL,
  title={Qwen-VL: A Versatile Vision-Language Model for Understanding, Localization, Text Reading, and Beyond},
  author={Bai, Jinze and Bai, Shuai and Yang, Shusheng and Wang, Shijie and Tan, Sinan and Wang, Peng and Lin, Junyang and Zhou, Chang and Zhou, Jingren},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.12966},
  year={2023}
}

Files

7 files · 16.1 GBWeights 2.50 GB (smallest of 3 GGUF variants). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
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.gitattributes1.86 KB5539a02425380e6ed78ad75986901f7896cd7e819e2101201c0c49c5f1ed454c
Qwen3VL-4B-Instruct-F16.gguf8.05 GB4a6fb1ed053e162887bfc372bd7ffaaa9b8e4049ac6e9b9398ae7277162ec761
Qwen3VL-4B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf2.50 GB66358cb18bb6b3b1b6675aa412c7a88ef01d228f481184d13668e5201c730a0a
Qwen3VL-4B-Instruct-Q8_0.gguf4.28 GB054721f478bc5fa6beffb7f38eae575d45298f88cbb8d2f83ef675a727863eb1
README.md5.79 KB3d50ed633b88c42249a9fd9771899d751b3e75a57f698ec35babcd3a0c7b6110
mmproj-Qwen3VL-4B-Instruct-F16.gguf836 MB256f3a43bd4205ffef48d6b92715e1e70b5b0e9aef06522584967513a9985331
mmproj-Qwen3VL-4B-Instruct-Q8_0.gguf454 MB30ba2c7dd3127a4561b6cba9d13d0f711c91bdb38742e2f56d73c8cb596bd06d
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1cd86afb9a pinned now2026-11-15 04:34 UTC7 files · 16.1 GB

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$ fw get Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-GGUF
# manifest sha256 c9b72ffb1450… · 16.1 GB · 7 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-GGUF Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-GGUF
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$ python3 fw.py get https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-GGUF.json --dir ./Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-GGUF $ python3 fw.py verify ./Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-GGUF ./Qwen__Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-GGUF.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-GGUF --revision 1cd86afb9a95c410a6038ab3b40d8b578c892266 --local-dir ./Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-GGUF
llama.cppDownload one GGUF variant (Qwen3VL-4B-Instruct-Q4_K_M, 2.50 GB), then serve it.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-GGUF --include "Qwen3VL-4B-Instruct-Q4_K_M*" --local-dir ./Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-GGUF $ llama-server -m ./Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-GGUF/Qwen3VL-4B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf
OllamaMake an Ollama model from the downloaded file.
$ printf 'FROM ./Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-GGUF/Qwen3VL-4B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf\n' > Modelfile $ ollama create qwen3-vl-4b-instruct-gguf -f Modelfile

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From: Qwen <huggingface.co/Qwen>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject: Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-GGUFDate: 2026-11-15Commit: 1cd86afSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
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Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-GGUF
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Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-GGUF.json · .minisig
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c9b72ffb1450312fcb259f96889dd3d675c681360ef533f3544280545de9f3f7
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From: BAAI <huggingface.co/BAAI>Subject: Aquila-VL-2B-llava-qwen
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From: BAAI <huggingface.co/BAAI>Subject: bge-reasoner-embed-qwen3-8b-0923
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From: bartowski <huggingface.co/bartowski>Subject: bytkim_Qwen3.8-27B-pi-GGUF