Qwen2.5-7B - AI Language Models Tool

Overview

Qwen2.5-7B is the 7-billion-parameter member of the Qwen2.5 family: an open-weight, decoder-only Transformer optimized for coding, mathematics, instruction following, long-context generation, and multilingual tasks. The model is released on Hugging Face under an Apache-2.0 license and is distributed in safetensors/BF16 formats; the official Hugging Face model card lists the 7B base variant with ~7.61B parameters, 28 layers, and a 131,072-token context capacity. ([huggingface.co](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B)) Qwen2.5 represents an incremental evolution over Qwen2 with targeted expert variants (e.g., Qwen2.5-Coder and Qwen2.5-Math) and pipeline integrations for tool calling (vLLM, Ollama). The Qwen team reports substantial gains across math, coding, and instruction benchmarks for the Qwen2.5 family, and publishes guidance for deploying the 7B and instruct variants with Transformers, vLLM, and common quantization toolchains. Community feedback is active and mixed—many users praise strong coding/math performance and long-context handling, while some report deployment/quantization pitfalls depending on the runtime (Ollama, LM Studio, gguf builds). ([qwenlm.github.io](https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5/))

Model Statistics

• Downloads: 2,005,283
• Likes: 266
• Pipeline: text-generation
• Parameters: 7.6B

License: apache-2.0

Model Details

Architecture and core specs: Qwen2.5-7B is a dense, decoder-only Transformer using RoPE positional encodings, SwiGLU feed-forward blocks, RMSNorm normalization, and Grouped Query Attention (GQA) with attention Q/KV bias. The Hugging Face model card lists 7.61B total parameters (≈6.53B non-embedding), 28 transformer layers, and a GQA configuration of 28 query heads with 4 KV heads. Peak context support is documented at 131,072 tokens for the larger Qwen2.5 variants; the family is engineered for long-context tasks and structured-output generation (JSON/table understanding). ([huggingface.co](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B)) Training & variants: Qwen2.5 models were pretrained on substantially expanded corpora (the Qwen2.5 blog cites large-scale pretraining and specialized corpora for Coder and Math expert models). The project provides both base pretrained weights and instruction-tuned “-Instruct” variants, plus specialized releases (Coder, Math, Omni/multimodal editions). The authors publish a technical report (Qwen2) with detailed benchmark results for the series; the Qwen2.5 blog and readthedocs provide deployment examples (Transformers, vLLM, tool calling) and quantization/throughput guidance. ([arxiv.org](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.10671))

Key Features

• Supports very-long context (document-level) inputs up to ~131,072 tokens.
• GQA + RoPE-based Transformer providing efficient long-context inference.
• Specialist offshoots: Qwen2.5-Coder and Qwen2.5-Math for coding/math tasks.
• Instruction-tuned variants optimized for structured JSON and table outputs.
• Tool-calling support with vLLM and Ollama-compatible templates.
• Open-weight release (most variants under Apache-2.0) and HF integration.

Example Usage

Example (python):

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
import torch

model_name = "Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B"
# Use device_map/torch_dtype to let HF place weights automatically
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name, use_fast=False)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    model_name,
    torch_dtype="auto",
    device_map="auto"
)

prompt = "Write a short Python function that computes the Fibonacci sequence up to n."
inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=200, temperature=0.2)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True))

# For instruction/chat templates and vLLM deployment, see the Qwen2.5 blog and HF model card for examples.
# (Example usage adapted from Qwen blog and HF model card.)

Benchmarks

GSM8K (Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct, reported): 91.6% (Source: https://qwen2.org/qwen2-5/)

HumanEval (Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct, reported): 84.8% (Source: https://qwen2.org/qwen2-5/)

MATH (Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct, reported): 75.5% (Source: https://qwen2.org/qwen2-5/)

MMLU (series-level claim for Qwen2.5 family): Series: 85+ (Qwen2.5 family claim) (Source: https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5/)

Flagship Qwen2 (72B) example benchmarks (paper): MMLU 84.2, HumanEval 64.6, GSM8K 89.5 (example from Qwen2 paper) (Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.10671)

Key Information

• Category: Language Models
• Type: AI Language Models Tool