Base Model: Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct
Teacher Model: Qwen/QwQ-32B-Preview
Distillation Framework: Generative Knowledge Distillation (GKD)
Task Type: Conversational AI / Causal Language Modeling
Parameters: 0.5B
Special Features:
- Optimized with LoraConfig for fine-tuning
- Integrated gradient checkpointing for efficient training
- Step-by-step reasoning capabilities for better problem-solving

Training:

QwQ-0.5B-Distilled was trained using the QwQ-LongCoT-130K dataset, a carefully curated collection of long-context examples designed for reasoning and conversational AI tasks. The GKD framework ensures that the student model mimics the teacher model’s outputs, aligning its predictions with high-quality responses.

Training Progress:

[▓▓▓▓░░░░░░] 23%

Training Script:

python

from datasets import Dataset
from trl import GKDConfig, GKDTrainer
from transformers import (
    AutoModelForCausalLM,
    AutoTokenizer,
)
from datasets import load_dataset
from peft import LoraConfig

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("--temperature", type=float, default = 0.9)
parser.add_argument("--lmbda", type=float, default = 0.5)
parser.add_argument("--beta", type=float, default = 0.5)
parser.add_argument("--max_new_tokens", type=int, default = 4096)
parser.add_argument("--output_dir", type=str, default="gkd-model")
parser.add_argument("--per_device_train_batch_size", type=int, default=1)
parser.add_argument("--gradient_accumulation_steps", type=int, default=16)
parser.add_argument("--gradient_checkpointing", action="store_true", default=False)
parser.add_argument("--resume_from_checkpoint", action="store_true", default=False)
parser.add_argument("--lora", action="store_true")
args = parser.parse_args()

qwq_dataset = load_dataset("amphora/QwQ-LongCoT-130K", split = "train")
messages = []
for each in qwq_dataset:
    msg = [
        {"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful and harmless assistant. You are Qwen developed by Alibaba. You should think step-by-step."},
        {"role": "user", "content": each["problem"]},
        {"role": "assistant", "content": each["qwq"]},
    ]
    messages.append(msg)

TRAIN_SPLIT_RATIO = 0.9
train_size = int(TRAIN_SPLIT_RATIO * len(messages))
eval_size = len(messages) - train_size

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct")




# The teacher model to calculate the KL divergence against
teacher_model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Qwen/QwQ-32B-Preview", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16, device_map="auto") 
teacher_model.lm_head.weight.data = teacher_model.lm_head.weight.data[:151936, :]
teacher_model.lm_head.out_features = 151936



# The model to optimise
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16, device_map="auto") 



### Real Dataset
train_dataset = Dataset.from_dict({"messages":messages[:train_size]})
eval_dataset = Dataset.from_dict({"messages":messages[train_size:]})
training_args = GKDConfig(
    output_dir=args.output_dir,
    temperature=args.temperature,
    lmbda=args.lmbda,
    beta=args.beta,
    max_new_tokens=args.max_new_tokens,
    per_device_train_batch_size=args.per_device_train_batch_size,
    gradient_accumulation_steps=args.gradient_accumulation_steps,
    gradient_checkpointing = args.gradient_checkpointing,
    save_steps = 100,
    save_total_limit = 5
    )

lora_config = LoraConfig(
    r=16,
    lora_alpha=32,
    lora_dropout=0.05,
    bias="none",
    task_type="CAUSAL_LM",
)

trainer = GKDTrainer(
    model=model,
    teacher_model=teacher_model,
    args=training_args,
    processing_class=tokenizer,
    train_dataset=train_dataset,
    eval_dataset=eval_dataset,
    peft_config=lora_config if args.lora else None
)
trainer.train(resume_from_checkpoint=args.resume_from_checkpoint)

Dataset:

Source: amphora/QwQ-LongCoT-130K
Split: 90% Training, 10% Evaluation

Example Usage:

python

import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

# Model name
model_name = "kz919/QwQ-0.5B-Distilled"

# Load the model
print(f"Starting to load the model {model_name} into memory")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    model_name,
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
    device_map={"": 0}
)

# Load the tokenizer
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)

# Define the prompt
prompt = "How many r in strawberry."
messages = [
    {"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful and harmless assistant. You are Qwen developed by Alibaba. You should think step-by-step."},
    {"role": "user", "content": prompt}
]

# Tokenize the input
text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
    messages,
    tokenize=False,
    add_generation_prompt=True
)
model_inputs = tokenizer([text], return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)

# Generate a response
generated_ids = model.generate(
    **model_inputs,
    max_new_tokens=4096
)
generated_ids = [
    output_ids[len(input_ids):] for input_ids, output_ids in zip(model_inputs.input_ids, generated_ids)
]

# Decode the response
response = tokenizer.batch_decode(generated_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)[0]
print(response)

Applications:

Conversational Assistants:
Suitable for AI chatbots that require reasoning and long-context understanding.
Educational Tools:
Provides step-by-step explanations, making it ideal for learning environments.
Creative Writing:
Assists in generating coherent, contextually aware long-form content.
Technical Support:
Handles complex customer queries with precision and clarity.

Limitations:

While distilled for efficiency, performance on highly complex reasoning tasks may slightly trail the teacher model.
Warning 🚨🚨🚨: This model is not fully trained, merely a proof of concept. Don't yell at me if it's outputing nonesense.

Citation:

If you use this model in your research or applications, please cite it as:

bibtex

@model{qwq_0.5B_distilled,
  author = {Kaizhao Liang},
  title = {QwQ-0.5B-Distilled: A Reasoning Model for Edge Devices},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  version = {1.0}
}

This model is an example of how efficient fine-tuning and distillation methods can deliver robust conversational AI capabilities in a smaller, more manageable footprint.