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Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-bf16

mlx-community/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-bf16
bf16 Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
494M
Weights (est.)
≈ 988 MB
Mac memory (est.)
8 GB+

Size is estimated from the parameter count and quantisation. Memory allows a fifth extra for context plus 2 GB for the system; long contexts need more.

Run it

With mlx-lm on an Apple silicon Mac:

pip install mlx-lmmlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-bf16 --prompt "Hello"

Details

Base model
Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B (finetune)
Vendor
Qwen
Task
Text generation
Quantisation
bf16
Licence
apache-2.0
Downloads
1.8K in the last 30 days · 42K all time · 1 likes
Published
2024-09-18 · updated 2024-09-18 (2y ago)
Languages
en
Tags
qwen2, chat

Other MLX builds of Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-4bit 4-bit ≈ 278 MB 8 GB+ 27K
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-8bit 8-bit ≈ 525 MB 8 GB+ 177
VibeVoice-Realtime-0.5B-4bit 4-bit ≈ 633 MB 8 GB+ 135
VibeVoice-Realtime-0.5B-5bit 5-bit ≈ 754 MB 8 GB+ 20
VibeVoice-Realtime-0.5B-6bit 6-bit ≈ 876 MB 8 GB+ 22
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-bf16 (this one) bf16 ≈ 988 MB 8 GB+ 1.8K
VibeVoice-Realtime-0.5B-8bit 8-bit ≈ 1.1 GB 8 GB+ 254
VibeVoice-Realtime-0.5B-fp16 fp16 ≈ 2.0 GB 8 GB+ 377