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Qwen

Qwen is an open-weight language model from Qwen, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.

Licence fee required LLMs Qwen 1 variants 2.4M downloads/mo
Request a licence + hosting quote All served models Not on the shared API today — deployed on request.

About

What Qwen is

Qwen-72B 🤗 <a href="https://huggingface.co/Qwen"Hugging Face</a&nbsp&nbsp | &nbsp&nbsp🤖 <a href="https://modelscope.cn/organization/qwen"ModelScope</a&nbsp&nbsp | &nbsp&nbsp 📑 <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16609"Paper</a &nbsp&nbsp | &nbsp&nbsp🖥️ <a href="https://modelscope.cn/studios/qwen/Qwen-72B-Chat-Demo/summary"Demo</a 介绍 (Introduction) 通义千问-72B(Qwen-72B)是阿里云研发的通义千问大模型系列的720亿参数规模的模型。Qwen-72B是基于Transformer的大语言模型, 在超大规模的预训练数据上进行训练得到。预训练数据类型多样,覆盖广泛,包括大量网络文本、专业书籍、代码等。同时,在Qwen-72B的基础上,我们使用对齐机制打造了基于大语言模型的AI助手Qwen-72B-Chat。本仓库为Qwen-72B的仓库。 通义千问-72B(Qwen-72B)主要有以下特点: 1. 大规模高质量训练语料:使用超过3万亿tokens的数据进行预训练,包含高质量中、英、多语言、代码、数学等数据,涵盖通用及专业领域的训练语料。通过大量对比实验对预训练语料分布进行了优化。 2. 强大的性能:Qwen-72B在多个中英文下游评测任务上(涵盖常识推理、代码、数学、翻译等),效果显著超越现有的开源模型。具体评测结果请详见下文。 3. 覆盖更全面的词表:相比目前以中英词表为主的开源模型,Qwen-72B使用了约15万大小的词表。该词表对多语言更加友好,方便用户在不扩展词表的情况下对部分语种进行能力增强和扩展。 4. 较长的上下文支持:Qwen-72B支持32k的上下文长度。 如果您想了解更多关于通义千问72B开源模型的细节,我们建议您参阅GitHub代码库。 Qwen-72B is the 72B-parameter version of the large language model series, Qwen (abbr. Tongyi Qianwen), proposed by Alibaba Cloud. Qwen-72B is a Transformer-based large language model, which is pretrained on a large volume of data, including web texts, books, codes, etc. Additionally, based on the pretrained Qwen-72B, we release Qwen-72B-Chat, a large-model-based AI assistant, which is trained with alignment techniques. This repository is the one for Qwen-72B. The features of Qwen-72B include: 1. Large-scale high-quality training corpora: It is pretrained on over 3 trillion tokens, including Chinese, English, multilingual texts, code, and mathematics, covering general and professional fields. The distribution of the pre-training corpus has been optimized through a large number of ablation experiments. 2. Competitive performance: It significantly surpasses existing open-source models on multiple Chinese and English downstream evaluation tasks (including commonsense, reasoning, code, mathematics, etc.). See below for specific evaluation results. 3. More comprehensive vocabulary coverage: Compared with other open-source models based on Chinese and English vocabularies, Qwen-72B uses a vocabulary of over 150K tokens. This vocabulary is more friendly to multiple langua

Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.

Specifications

What it is

MakerQwen
TypeLanguage models
Parameters (lead)72.3B
Context32k tokens
Variants1
Runs withtransformers
Released2023-11-26
Popularity2.4M downloads / month
Likes361
LicenceCommercial licence needed

How it works

How language models work

Your prompttext / messagesTransformerattention over tokensNext-token loopgenerate + streamResponsetext · tool callsA language model reads your tokens and predicts the next one, again and again, streaming the reply back.

Variants

Sizes & precisions

Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.

VariantParamsPrecisionVRAMFits 16 GBWeights
Qwen-72B72.3BBF16~166.3 GBWeights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys qwen for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (qwen below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"qwen","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

Details

Languages, data & research

Languages

zh en

Tags

transformers safetensors qwen text-generation custom_code zh en

Papers

Licence

Commercial licence needed

The weights are open but its licence needs a commercial agreement for business use. AxForge can arrange that licence and host the model for you — you pay AxForge, we settle with the model’s maker. Ask us for a quote. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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