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Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct

Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct is a 1.5-billion-parameter instruction-tuned model from Alibaba Cloud's Qwen2.5 series, targeting edge and embedded deployment scenarios where even a 3B model is too large. Apache 2.0 licensed, it focuses on basic instruction following and short-context tasks at minimal compute cost.

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Publisher (HF namespace)
Qwen
Pipeline tag
text-generation
Library
Transformers
Weight formats
safetensors
License tag
apache-2.0 — read the license file in the repo before relying on it
Lineage
Language tags
English (en)
Papers cited
arXiv:2407.10671
Downloads (HF counter at last fetch)
7,383,027
Likes (HF counter at last fetch)
816
Model card
https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct

Use cases

  • Embedded on-device inference on constrained hardware
  • Simple instruction following tasks like classification, reformatting, or short summarization
  • Ultra-low-latency text generation where quality is secondary to speed
  • Prototyping LLM features with minimal infrastructure
  • Lightweight chat on CPU-only servers

Pros

  • Apache 2.0 license
  • 1.5B parameters runs on very limited hardware including CPU
  • Part of maintained Qwen2.5 family
  • Text-generation-inference compatible

Cons

  • 1.5B scale significantly limits reasoning, factual accuracy, and coherent multi-turn dialogue
  • Not competitive with 3B+ models on most benchmarks
  • Hallucination rate high relative to larger models
  • Complex tasks requiring multi-step reasoning are unreliable
  • Context window and multilingual breadth more limited than larger family members

Tags

transformerssafetensorsqwen2text-generationchatconversationalenarxiv:2407.10671base_model:Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5Bbase_model:finetune:Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5Blicense:apache-2.0text-generation-inferenceendpoints_compatibleregion:usdeploy:azure