alt.freeweights.qwen / Qwen2-500M-Instruct-GGUF
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Qwen2-500M-Instruct-GGUF

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 3a224dfSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Text generation model. Gguf weights, 4.19 GB in all. Published by lmstudio-community under Apache-2.0.

qwen4.19GBQwen2-500M-Instruct-GGUFggufpermissive
FactsParamsnot statedSize4.19 GBFormatsggufTasktext generationLicenseApache-2.0From sourcepermissive
$ fw get lmstudio-community/Qwen2-500M-Instruct-GGUF
# manifest sha256 0de2d6296262… · 4.19 GB · 8 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen2-500M-Instruct-GGUF lmstudio-community/Qwen2-500M-Instruct-GGUF
From sourceHosted (signed)lmstudio-community/Qwen2-500M-Instruct-GGUFLast check: 2026-11-15 05:11 UTC

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Quantized of Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct.

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Overview

Size
4.19 GB
Weights
349 MB (smallest of 6 GGUF variants)
Parameters
not stated
Formats
gguf
Task
text generation
License
Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files
8, each with a sha256
Publisher
lmstudio-community
Added
2026-11-15
Section
alt.freeweights.qwen
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Original release from the publisher.

Base model: Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct

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Model card

From the publisher at commit 3a224df. Shown as plain text with links; images open at the publisher.

💫 Community Model> Qwen2 500M Instruct by Qwen#

👾 LM Studio Community models highlights program. Highlighting new & noteworthy models by the community. Join the conversation on Discord.

Model creator: Qwen

Original model: Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct

GGUF quantization: provided by bartowski based on llama.cpp release b3086

Model Summary:#

Qwen2 is a new series of language models from Qwen released in various sizes.

Showing improved performance across a large range of categories, this model is great for any general purpose instruction following.

At only 500M parameters, this model should be used for low power edge compute or as a draft model.

Prompt template:#

Choose the ChatML preset in your LM Studio.

Under the hood, the model will see a prompt that's formatted like so:

<|im_start|>system
You are a helpful assistant.<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
{prompt}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant

Technical Details#

Qwen2 offers an extremely extended 131,072 token vocabulary

For more information, visit their blog post here

Special thanks#

🙏 Special thanks to Georgi Gerganov and the whole team working on llama.cpp

🙏 Special thanks to Kalomaze and Dampf for their work on the dataset (linked here) that was used for calculating the imatrix for all sizes.

Disclaimers#

LM Studio is not the creator, originator, or owner of any Model featured in the Community Model Program. Each Community Model is created and provided by third parties. LM Studio does not endorse, support, represent or guarantee the completeness, truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any Community Model. You understand that Community Models can produce content that might be offensive, harmful, inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate, or deceptive. Each Community Model is the sole responsibility of the person or entity who originated such Model. LM Studio may not monitor or control the Community Models and cannot, and does not, take responsibility for any such Model. LM Studio disclaims all warranties or guarantees about the accuracy, reliability or benefits of the Community Models. LM Studio further disclaims any warranty that the Community Model will meet your requirements, be secure, uninterrupted or available at any time or location, or error-free, viruses-free, or that any errors will be corrected, or otherwise. You will be solely responsible for any damage resulting from your use of or access to the Community Models, your downloading of any Community Model, or use of any other Community Model provided by or through LM Studio.

Files

8 files · 4.19 GBWeights 349 MB (smallest of 6 GGUF variants). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
Hide all 8 files with their sha256
FileSizesha256
.gitattributes2.19 KB05f80bb2a71d8cc5ac570868569ea60409290df8255c04e4ea15258544c5d31f
Qwen2-500M-Instruct-IQ4_XS.gguf349 MBefb03512acae03810fd06c986e04ff38cd1742fad6f7150ab61bfc3555e644b1
Qwen2-500M-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf398 MBca7490f00135c413e0827cbc27333985f937188c19caa2321365644211a3ed4a
Qwen2-500M-Instruct-Q5_K_M.gguf420 MB73d05555aa5c4571391be66ea316bfc2a5f5a16bc346271a9a2d76756799c383
Qwen2-500M-Instruct-Q6_K.gguf506 MB92fd464a0d59b39c5cad21fd5b0ada49abebcd58eef726bebec082aea01530f3
Qwen2-500M-Instruct-Q8_0.gguf531 MBa07bd33b0e52babc1083e97d9bb6018197d7af25697552cc4d0b751e035158ff
Qwen2-500M-Instruct-f32.gguf1.98 GB5359f04e5c466b806ce61dc1f5abc74c293906d0281b1feafa458e84fa431b6a
README.md3.48 KBb104da3456f29798b5cdcd2782253b7d0a46c16c6e1120967c5df25216145a52
VersionsEach time the pinned upstream commit or file list changed in this repo. Newest first.
Upstream commitDateContents
3a224df182 pinned now2026-11-15 05:11 UTC8 files · 4.19 GB

Use it

$ fw get lmstudio-community/Qwen2-500M-Instruct-GGUF
# manifest sha256 0de2d6296262… · 4.19 GB · 8 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen2-500M-Instruct-GGUF lmstudio-community/Qwen2-500M-Instruct-GGUF
fw.pyChecks the signature and every sha256, tries each source in order, resumes.
$ python3 fw.py get https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/lmstudio-community/Qwen2-500M-Instruct-GGUF.json --dir ./Qwen2-500M-Instruct-GGUF $ python3 fw.py verify ./Qwen2-500M-Instruct-GGUF ./lmstudio-community__Qwen2-500M-Instruct-GGUF.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download lmstudio-community/Qwen2-500M-Instruct-GGUF --revision 3a224df182a0065b36669999c1afb5dfc868195f --local-dir ./Qwen2-500M-Instruct-GGUF
llama.cppDownload one GGUF variant (Qwen2-500M-Instruct-IQ4_XS, 349 MB), then serve it.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download lmstudio-community/Qwen2-500M-Instruct-GGUF --include "Qwen2-500M-Instruct-IQ4_XS*" --local-dir ./Qwen2-500M-Instruct-GGUF $ llama-server -m ./Qwen2-500M-Instruct-GGUF/Qwen2-500M-Instruct-IQ4_XS.gguf
OllamaMake an Ollama model from the downloaded file.
$ printf 'FROM ./Qwen2-500M-Instruct-GGUF/Qwen2-500M-Instruct-IQ4_XS.gguf\n' > Modelfile $ ollama create qwen2-500m-instruct-gguf -f Modelfile

License

Name
Apache License 2.0
Id
Apache-2.0
Class
Permissive
Redistribution
yes
Listing
Hosted (signed)
Decided
License as declared by the publisher. No person read it. 2026-11-15
Text in
README.md
Text sha256
b104da3456f29798b5cdcd2782253b7d0a46c16c6e1120967c5df25216145a52
Terms gate
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Provenance

From: lmstudio-community <huggingface.co/lmstudio-community>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject: Qwen2-500M-Instruct-GGUFDate: 2026-11-15Commit: 3a224dfSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
Upstream
lmstudio-community/Qwen2-500M-Instruct-GGUF
Pinned commit
3a224df182a0065b36669999c1afb5dfc868195f
Manifest
Qwen2-500M-Instruct-GGUF.json · .minisig
Manifest sha256
0de2d629626212e63f9fed4bbfbca9a5c0748dd971945e12b00d176df936147c
Signature
minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B
Created
2026-11-15 05:11 UTC
Generator
freeweights-manifest/0.1.0
Takedowns
None.

How to verify

$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/lmstudio-community/Qwen2-500M-Instruct-GGUF.json $ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/lmstudio-community/Qwen2-500M-Instruct-GGUF.json.minisig $ minisign -Vm Qwen2-500M-Instruct-GGUF.json -P RWQ7KGqyx4zCLXtUFOqvfv8L3g+8fpKJ1FsuxPyOYMF+4KufbUxKq1Oq $ shasum -a 256 <file> # compare with the Files tab

A manifest whose signature fails must be rejected. A file whose size or sha256 does not match must be discarded. Verify a download

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Parent

Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct · this model is a quantization of it

No model in the catalog names this one as its parent.

Get it
Download
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download lmstudio-community/Qwen2-500M-Instruct-GGUF
Open in Freeweights Studio

Pull, verify and run it in the Allternit app on Desktop, web or phone.

Signed manifest
minisign, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B. Qwen2-500M-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