Qwen 2.5 0.5B Instruct
Smallest Qwen 2.5. Apache 2.0; phone / Pi-class deployment target.
Overview
Smallest Qwen 2.5. Apache 2.0; phone / Pi-class deployment target.
Family & lineage
How this model relates to others in its lineage. Family members share architecture and training-data roots; parent / children edges record direct distillation or fine-tune relationships.
Strengths
- Apache 2.0
- Phone-deployable
Weaknesses
- Trivial reasoning ceiling
Quantization variants
Each quantization trades model quality for file size and VRAM. Q4_K_M is the most popular starting point.
| Quantization | File size | VRAM required |
|---|---|---|
| Q4_K_M | 0.4 GB | 1 GB |
Get the model
HuggingFace
Original weights
Source repository — direct quantization required.
Hardware that runs this
Cards with enough VRAM for at least one quantization of Qwen 2.5 0.5B Instruct.
Models worth comparing
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Frequently asked
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Source: huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct
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