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Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-AWQ

Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct in AWQ 4-bit quantisation, the official Alibaba release for memory-efficient code generation serving. AWQ preserves the most salient weights at higher precision, enabling deployment of the 7B code model on a single GPU with ~8GB VRAM. It achieves competitive HumanEval and MBPP scores relative to the BF16 original while halving memory requirements.

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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:2409.12186, arXiv:2309.00071, arXiv:2407.10671
Downloads (HF counter at last fetch)
384,148
Likes (HF counter at last fetch)
26
Model card
https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-AWQ

Use cases

  • Serving a capable code generation model on a single 8GB VRAM GPU
  • Code completion, explanation, and debugging in production at lower cost
  • Building coding assistants where the BF16 7B exceeds memory budget
  • Batch code generation in CI pipelines with limited GPU resources
  • Comparing AWQ quantisation impact on code model benchmark performance

Pros

  • Official Alibaba AWQ release; quality benchmarks are reproducible
  • Apache 2.0 license; TGI and Azure compatible
  • AWQ typically preserves >98% of BF16 HumanEval accuracy
  • 7B scale with AWQ fits single consumer-grade GPU

Cons

  • Cannot be further fine-tuned post-AWQ quantisation
  • AWQ dequantisation overhead increases token latency vs BF16 on fast hardware
  • 7B context window is smaller than the 7B BF16 variant in some configurations
  • Qwen2.5-Coder is superseded by Qwen3-Coder for new deployments

Tags

transformerssafetensorsqwen2text-generationcodecodeqwenchatqwenqwen-coderconversationalenarxiv:2409.12186arxiv:2309.00071arxiv:2407.10671base_model:Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instructbase_model:quantized:Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instructlicense:apache-2.0text-generation-inferenceendpoints_compatible4-bit