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Qwen2-VL

Qwen2-VL 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.

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About

What Qwen2-VL is

Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct-AWQ Introduction We're excited to unveil Qwen2-VL, the latest iteration of our Qwen-VL model, representing nearly a year of innovation. What’s New in Qwen2-VL? Key Enhancements: SoTA understanding of images of various resolution & ratio: Qwen2-VL achieves state-of-the-art performance on visual understanding benchmarks, including MathVista, DocVQA, RealWorldQA, MTVQA, etc. Understanding videos of 20min+: Qwen2-VL can understand videos over 20 minutes for high-quality video-based question answering, dialog, content creation, etc. Agent that can operate your mobiles, robots, etc.: with the abilities of complex reasoning and decision making, Qwen2-VL can be integrated with devices like mobile phones, robots, etc., for automatic operation based on visual environment and text instructions. Multilingual Support: to serve global users, besides English and Chinese, Qwen2-VL now supports the understanding of texts in different languages inside images, including most European languages, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Vietnamese, etc. Model Architecture Updates: Naive Dynamic Resolution: Unlike before, Qwen2-VL can handle arbitrary image resolutions, mapping them into a dynamic number of visual tokens, offering a more human-like visual processing experience. Multimodal Rotary Position Embedding (M-ROPE): Decomposes positional embedding into parts to capture 1D textual, 2D visual, and 3D video positional information, enhancing its multimodal processing capabilities. We have three models with 2, 7 and 72 billion parameters. This repo contains the instruction-tuned 7B Qwen2-VL model. For more information, visit our Blog and GitHub. Benchmark Performance of Quantized Models This section reports the generation performance of quantized models (including GPTQ and AWQ) of the Qwen2-VL series. Specifically, we report: - MMMUVAL (Accuracy) - DocVQAVAL (Accuracy) - MMBenchDEVEN (Accuracy) - MathVistaMINI (Accuracy) We use VLMEvalkit to evaluate all models. Speed Benchmark This section reports the speed performance of bf16 models, quantized models (including GPTQ-Int4, GPTQ-Int8 and AWQ) of the Qwen2-VL series. Specifically, we report the inference speed (tokens/s) as w

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

Specifications

What it is

MakerQwen
TypeLanguage models
Parameters (lead)8.3B
Context32k tokens
Variants2
Runs withtransformers
Based onQwen/Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct
Released2024-08-29
Popularity1.7M downloads / month
Likes518
LicenceOpen weights

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
Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct-AWQ8.3BAWQWeights ↗
Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct2.2BBF16~5.1 GBWeights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys qwen2-vl for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (qwen2-vl 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":"qwen2-vl","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

Details

Languages, data & research

Languages

en

Tags

transformers safetensors qwen2_vl image-text-to-text multimodal conversational en text-generation-inference endpoints_compatible 4-bit awq deploy:azure

Papers

Licence

Open weights

Open weights under apache-2.0 — commercial use is permitted. Deploy it on AxForge EU hardware on request. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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