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Qwen1.5

LLMs Qwen Text gen 4 builds Its own licence terms 108k dl/mo

Qwen1.5 is an open-weight language model from Qwen. Qwen1.5-0.5B-Chat (BF16) weighs 1.2 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

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  • Qwen1.5 is a transformer-based decoder-only language model series developed by Qwen for text generation tasks.
  • The specific 7B variant contains 7.7B parameters and supports a context length of 32,768 tokens.
  • It is designed for English and uses an other licence.

Summary of the Qwen/Qwen1.5-7B model card, 2026-10-01. The estimate below is for another build of the family.

What it is

Released byQwen
Released2024-01-22
Parameters7.7B
VRAM1.2 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for Qwen1.5-0.5B-Chat (BF16)

1.2 GBweights, file size
98 MBcache per 1K tokens
625 MBruntime overhead, at least
32,768 tokenscontext max
CardRequests at onceContext maxMemory
8K each32K each
RTX 3060 12 GB123all 32K11.6 GB
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB164all 32K15.4 GB
RTX 3090 24 GB266all 32K23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GB266all 32K23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GB369all 32K31.0 GB
L40S 48 GB5213all 32K44.0 GB
A100 80 GB9423all 32K78.2 GB
H100 80 GB8922all 32K78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB10927all 32K93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified12631all 32K107 GB
H200 141 GB16441all 32K138 GB
B200 180 GB21152all 32K176 GB
Memory needed at each load
Requests at once8K tokens each32K tokens each
12.7 GB5.1 GB
55.9 GB18.0 GB
88.3 GB27.6 GB
1614.7 GB53.4 GB
3227.6 GB105 GB
6453.4 GB208 GB

One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.

Builds

Sizes, precisions & builds

BuildParamsPrecisionWeightsSmallest setup
Qwen1.5-7B ↗ 7.7BBF16 15.4 GB2× RTX 3060 12 GB
Qwen1.5-0.5B-Chat (above) ↗ 620MBF16 1.2 GBRTX 3060 12 GB
Qwen1.5-32B-Chat ↗ 32.5BBF16 65.0 GBH100 80 GB
Qwen1.5-1.8B-Chat ↗ 1.8BBF16 3.7 GBRTX 3060 12 GB

From the model card

What Qwen says about Qwen1.5

Read the model card

Introduction

Qwen1.5 is the beta version of Qwen2, a transformer-based decoder-only language model pretrained on a large amount of data. In comparison with the previous released Qwen, the improvements include:

  • 8 model sizes, including 0.5B, 1.8B, 4B, 7B, 14B, 32B and 72B dense models, and an MoE model of 14B with 2.7B activated;
  • Significant performance improvement in Chat models;
  • Multilingual support of both base and chat models;
  • Stable support of 32K context length for models of all sizes
  • No need of trust_remote_code.

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

Model Details

Qwen1.5 is a language model series including decoder language models of different model sizes. For each size, we release the base language model and the aligned chat model. It is based on the Transformer architecture with SwiGLU activation, attention QKV bias, group query attention, mixture of sliding window attention and full attention, etc. Additionally, we have an improved tokenizer adaptive to multiple natural languages and codes. For the beta version, temporarily we did not include GQA (except for 32B) and the mixture of SWA and full attention.

Requirements

The code of Qwen1.5 has been in the latest Hugging face transformers and we advise you to install transformers>=4.37.0, or you might encounter the following error:

KeyError: 'qwen2'.

Usage

We do not advise you to use base language models for text generation. Instead, you can apply post-training, e.g., SFT, RLHF, continued pretraining, etc., on this model.

Citation

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

@article{qwen,
  title={Qwen Technical Report},
  author={Jinze Bai and Shuai Bai and Yunfei Chu and Zeyu Cui and Kai Dang and Xiaodong Deng and Yang Fan and Wenbin Ge and Yu Han and Fei Huang and Binyuan Hui and Luo Ji and Mei Li and Junyang Lin and Runji Lin and Dayiheng Liu and Gao Liu and Chengqiang Lu and Keming Lu and Jianxin Ma and Rui Men and Xingzhang Ren and Xuancheng Ren and Chuanqi Tan and Sinan Tan and Jianhong Tu and Peng Wang and Shijie Wang and Wei Wang and Shengguang Wu and Benfeng Xu and Jin Xu and An Yang and Hao Yang and Jian Yang and Shusheng Yang and Yang Yao and Bowen Yu and Hongyi Yuan and Zheng Yuan and Jianwei Zhang and Xingxuan Zhang and Yichang Zhang and Zhenru Zhang and Chang Zhou and Jingren Zhou and Xiaohuan Zhou and Tianhang Zhu},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.16609},
  year={2023}
}

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

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