Ultra-Low-Bit Quantization with IQ-DynamicGate (1-2 bit)
Our latest quantization method introduces precision-adaptive quantization for ultra-low-bit models (1-2 bit), with benchmark-proven improvements on Llama-3-8B. This approach uses layer-specific strategies to preserve accuracy while maintaining extreme memory efficiency.
Benchmark Context
All tests conducted on Llama-3-8B-Instruct using:
Standard perplexity evaluation pipeline
2048-token context window
Same prompt set across all quantizations
Method
Dynamic Precision Allocation:
First/Last 25% of layers → IQ4_XS (selected layers)
Middle 50% → IQ2_XXS/IQ3_S (increase efficiency)
Critical Component Protection:
Embeddings/output layers use Q5_K
Reduces error propagation by 38% vs standard 1-2bit
Quantization Performance Comparison (Llama-3-8B)
Quantization
Standard PPL
DynamicGate PPL
Δ PPL
Std Size
DG Size
Δ Size
Std Speed
DG Speed
IQ2_XXS
11.30
9.84
-12.9%
2.5G
2.6G
+0.1G
234s
246s
IQ2_XS
11.72
11.63
-0.8%
2.7G
2.8G
+0.1G
242s
246s
IQ2_S
14.31
9.02
-36.9%
2.7G
2.9G
+0.2G
238s
244s
IQ1_M
27.46
15.41
-43.9%
2.2G
2.5G
+0.3G
206s
212s
IQ1_S
53.07
32.00
-39.7%
2.1G
2.4G
+0.3G
184s
209s
Key:
PPL = Perplexity (lower is better)
Δ PPL = Percentage change from standard to DynamicGate
Speed = Inference time (CPU avx2, 2048 token context)
✔ Cpu and Edge Devices where 1-2bit errors can be tolerated
✔ Research into ultra-low-bit quantization
Choosing the Right Model Format
Selecting the correct model format depends on your hardware capabilities and memory constraints.
BF16 (Brain Float 16) – Use if BF16 acceleration is available
A 16-bit floating-point format designed for faster computation while retaining good precision.
Provides similar dynamic range as FP32 but with lower memory usage.
Recommended if your hardware supports BF16 acceleration (check your device's specs).
Ideal for high-performance inference with reduced memory footprint compared to FP32.
📌 Use BF16 if:
✔ Your hardware has native BF16 support (e.g., newer GPUs, TPUs).
✔ You want higher precision while saving memory.
✔ You plan to requantize the model into another format.
📌 Avoid BF16 if:
❌ Your hardware does not support BF16 (it may fall back to FP32 and run slower).
❌ You need compatibility with older devices that lack BF16 optimization.
F16 (Float 16) – More widely supported than BF16
A 16-bit floating-point high precision but with less of range of values than BF16.
Works on most devices with FP16 acceleration support (including many GPUs and some CPUs).
Slightly lower numerical precision than BF16 but generally sufficient for inference.
📌 Use F16 if:
✔ Your hardware supports FP16 but not BF16.
✔ You need a balance between speed, memory usage, and accuracy.
✔ You are running on a GPU or another device optimized for FP16 computations.
📌 Avoid F16 if:
❌ Your device lacks native FP16 support (it may run slower than expected).
❌ You have memory limitations.
Quantized Models (Q4_K, Q6_K, Q8, etc.) – For CPU & Low-VRAM Inference
Quantization reduces model size and memory usage while maintaining as much accuracy as possible.
Lower-bit models (Q4_K) → Best for minimal memory usage, may have lower precision.
Higher-bit models (Q6_K, Q8_0) → Better accuracy, requires more memory.
📌 Use Quantized Models if:
✔ You are running inference on a CPU and need an optimized model.
✔ Your device has low VRAM and cannot load full-precision models.
✔ You want to reduce memory footprint while keeping reasonable accuracy.
📌 Avoid Quantized Models if:
❌ You need maximum accuracy (full-precision models are better for this).
❌ Your hardware has enough VRAM for higher-precision formats (BF16/F16).
Very Low-Bit Quantization (IQ3_XS, IQ3_S, IQ3_M, Q4_K, Q4_0)
These models are optimized for extreme memory efficiency, making them ideal for low-power devices or large-scale deployments where memory is a critical constraint.
IQ3_XS: Ultra-low-bit quantization (3-bit) with extreme memory efficiency.
Use case: Best for ultra-low-memory devices where even Q4_K is too large.
Trade-off: Lower accuracy compared to higher-bit quantizations.
IQ3_S: Small block size for maximum memory efficiency.
Use case: Best for low-memory devices where IQ3_XS is too aggressive.
IQ3_M: Medium block size for better accuracy than IQ3_S.
Use case: Suitable for low-memory devices where IQ3_S is too limiting.
Q4_K: 4-bit quantization with block-wise optimization for better accuracy.
Use case: Best for low-memory devices where Q6_K is too large.
Q4_0: Pure 4-bit quantization, optimized for ARM devices.
Use case: Best for ARM-based devices or low-memory environments.
Summary Table: Model Format Selection
Model Format
Precision
Memory Usage
Device Requirements
Best Use Case
BF16
Highest
High
BF16-supported GPU/CPUs
High-speed inference with reduced memory
F16
High
High
FP16-supported devices
GPU inference when BF16 isn't available
Q4_K
Medium Low
Low
CPU or Low-VRAM devices
Best for memory-constrained environments
Q6_K
Medium
Moderate
CPU with more memory
Better accuracy while still being quantized
Q8_0
High
Moderate
CPU or GPU with enough VRAM
Best accuracy among quantized models
IQ3_XS
Very Low
Very Low
Ultra-low-memory devices
Extreme memory efficiency and low accuracy
Q4_0
Low
Low
ARM or low-memory devices
llama.cpp can optimize for ARM devices
Included Files & Details
Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct-bf16.gguf
Model weights preserved in BF16.
Use this if you want to requantize the model into a different format.
Best if your device supports BF16 acceleration.
Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct-f16.gguf
Model weights stored in F16.
Use if your device supports FP16, especially if BF16 is not available.
Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct-bf16-q8_0.gguf
Output & embeddings remain in BF16.
All other layers quantized to Q8_0.
Use if your device supports BF16 and you want a quantized version.
Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct-f16-q8_0.gguf
Output & embeddings remain in F16.
All other layers quantized to Q8_0.
Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct-q4_k.gguf
Output & embeddings quantized to Q8_0.
All other layers quantized to Q4_K.
Good for CPU inference with limited memory.
Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct-q4_k_s.gguf
Smallest Q4_K variant, using less memory at the cost of accuracy.
Best for very low-memory setups.
Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct-q6_k.gguf
Output & embeddings quantized to Q8_0.
All other layers quantized to Q6_K .
Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct-q8_0.gguf
Fully Q8 quantized model for better accuracy.
Requires more memory but offers higher precision.
Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct-iq3_xs.gguf
IQ3_XS quantization, optimized for extreme memory efficiency.
Best for ultra-low-memory devices.
Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct-iq3_m.gguf
IQ3_M quantization, offering a medium block size for better accuracy.
Suitable for low-memory devices.
Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct-q4_0.gguf
Pure Q4_0 quantization, optimized for ARM devices.
Best for low-memory environments.
Prefer IQ4_NL for better accuracy.
🚀 If you find these models useful
Please click like ❤ . Also I'd really appreciate it if you could test my Network Monitor Assistant at 👉 Network Monitor Assitant.
💬 Click the chat icon (bottom right of the main and dashboard pages) . Choose a LLM; toggle between the LLM Types TurboLLM -> FreeLLM -> TestLLM.
What I'm Testing
I'm experimenting with function calling against my network monitoring service. Using small open source models. I am into the question "How small can it go and still function".
🟡 TestLLM – Runs the current testing model using llama.cpp on 6 threads of a Cpu VM (Should take about 15s to load. Inference speed is quite slow and it only processes one user prompt at a time—still working on scaling!). If you're curious, I'd be happy to share how it works! .
The other Available AI Assistants
🟢 TurboLLM – Uses gpt-4o-mini Fast! . Note: tokens are limited since OpenAI models are pricey, but you can Login or Download the Quantum Network Monitor agent to get more tokens, Alternatively use the TestLLM .
🔵 HugLLM – Runs open-source Hugging Face models Fast, Runs small models (≈8B) hence lower quality, Get 2x more tokens (subject to Hugging Face API availability)
Final word
I fund the servers to create the models files, run the Quantum Network Monitor Service and Pay for Inference from Novita and OpenAI all from my own pocket. All of the code for creating the models and the work I have done with Quantum Network Monitor is open source. Feel free to use what you find useful. Please support my work and consider buying me a coffee .
This will help me pay for the services and increase the token limits for everyone.
Thank you :)
Mungert/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct-GGUF GGUF Models
Ultra-Low-Bit Quantization with IQ-DynamicGate (1-2 bit)
Our latest quantization method introduces precision-adaptive quantization for ultra-low-bit models (1-2 bit), with benchmark-proven improvements on Llama-3-8B. This approach uses layer-specific strategies to preserve accuracy while maintaining extreme memory efficiency.
Benchmark Context
All tests conducted on Llama-3-8B-Instruct using:
Standard perplexity evaluation pipeline
2048-token context window
Same prompt set across all quantizations
Method
Dynamic Precision Allocation:
First/Last 25% of layers → IQ4_XS (selected layers)
Middle 50% → IQ2_XXS/IQ3_S (increase efficiency)
Critical Component Protection:
Embeddings/output layers use Q5_K
Reduces error propagation by 38% vs standard 1-2bit
Quantization Performance Comparison (Llama-3-8B)
Quantization
Standard PPL
DynamicGate PPL
Δ PPL
Std Size
DG Size
Δ Size
Std Speed
DG Speed
IQ2_XXS
11.30
9.84
-12.9%
2.5G
2.6G
+0.1G
234s
246s
IQ2_XS
11.72
11.63
-0.8%
2.7G
2.8G
+0.1G
242s
246s
IQ2_S
14.31
9.02
-36.9%
2.7G
2.9G
+0.2G
238s
244s
IQ1_M
27.46
15.41
-43.9%
2.2G
2.5G
+0.3G
206s
212s
IQ1_S
53.07
32.00
-39.7%
2.1G
2.4G
+0.3G
184s
209s
Key:
PPL = Perplexity (lower is better)
Δ PPL = Percentage change from standard to DynamicGate
Speed = Inference time (CPU avx2, 2048 token context)
✔ Cpu and Edge Devices where 1-2bit errors can be tolerated
✔ Research into ultra-low-bit quantization
Choosing the Right Model Format
Selecting the correct model format depends on your hardware capabilities and memory constraints.
BF16 (Brain Float 16) – Use if BF16 acceleration is available
A 16-bit floating-point format designed for faster computation while retaining good precision.
Provides similar dynamic range as FP32 but with lower memory usage.
Recommended if your hardware supports BF16 acceleration (check your device's specs).
Ideal for high-performance inference with reduced memory footprint compared to FP32.
📌 Use BF16 if:
✔ Your hardware has native BF16 support (e.g., newer GPUs, TPUs).
✔ You want higher precision while saving memory.
✔ You plan to requantize the model into another format.
📌 Avoid BF16 if:
❌ Your hardware does not support BF16 (it may fall back to FP32 and run slower).
❌ You need compatibility with older devices that lack BF16 optimization.
F16 (Float 16) – More widely supported than BF16
A 16-bit floating-point high precision but with less of range of values than BF16.
Works on most devices with FP16 acceleration support (including many GPUs and some CPUs).
Slightly lower numerical precision than BF16 but generally sufficient for inference.
📌 Use F16 if:
✔ Your hardware supports FP16 but not BF16.
✔ You need a balance between speed, memory usage, and accuracy.
✔ You are running on a GPU or another device optimized for FP16 computations.
📌 Avoid F16 if:
❌ Your device lacks native FP16 support (it may run slower than expected).
❌ You have memory limitations.
Quantized Models (Q4_K, Q6_K, Q8, etc.) – For CPU & Low-VRAM Inference
Quantization reduces model size and memory usage while maintaining as much accuracy as possible.
Lower-bit models (Q4_K) → Best for minimal memory usage, may have lower precision.
Higher-bit models (Q6_K, Q8_0) → Better accuracy, requires more memory.
📌 Use Quantized Models if:
✔ You are running inference on a CPU and need an optimized model.
✔ Your device has low VRAM and cannot load full-precision models.
✔ You want to reduce memory footprint while keeping reasonable accuracy.
📌 Avoid Quantized Models if:
❌ You need maximum accuracy (full-precision models are better for this).
❌ Your hardware has enough VRAM for higher-precision formats (BF16/F16).
Very Low-Bit Quantization (IQ3_XS, IQ3_S, IQ3_M, Q4_K, Q4_0)
These models are optimized for extreme memory efficiency, making them ideal for low-power devices or large-scale deployments where memory is a critical constraint.
IQ3_XS: Ultra-low-bit quantization (3-bit) with extreme memory efficiency.
Use case: Best for ultra-low-memory devices where even Q4_K is too large.
Trade-off: Lower accuracy compared to higher-bit quantizations.
IQ3_S: Small block size for maximum memory efficiency.
Use case: Best for low-memory devices where IQ3_XS is too aggressive.
IQ3_M: Medium block size for better accuracy than IQ3_S.
Use case: Suitable for low-memory devices where IQ3_S is too limiting.
Q4_K: 4-bit quantization with block-wise optimization for better accuracy.
Use case: Best for low-memory devices where Q6_K is too large.
Q4_0: Pure 4-bit quantization, optimized for ARM devices.
Use case: Best for ARM-based devices or low-memory environments.
Summary Table: Model Format Selection
Model Format
Precision
Memory Usage
Device Requirements
Best Use Case
BF16
Highest
High
BF16-supported GPU/CPUs
High-speed inference with reduced memory
F16
High
High
FP16-supported devices
GPU inference when BF16 isn't available
Q4_K
Medium Low
Low
CPU or Low-VRAM devices
Best for memory-constrained environments
Q6_K
Medium
Moderate
CPU with more memory
Better accuracy while still being quantized
Q8_0
High
Moderate
CPU or GPU with enough VRAM
Best accuracy among quantized models
IQ3_XS
Very Low
Very Low
Ultra-low-memory devices
Extreme memory efficiency and low accuracy
Q4_0
Low
Low
ARM or low-memory devices
llama.cpp can optimize for ARM devices
Included Files & Details
Mungert/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct-GGUF-bf16.gguf
Model weights preserved in BF16.
Use this if you want to requantize the model into a different format.
Best if your device supports BF16 acceleration.
Mungert/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct-GGUF-f16.gguf
Model weights stored in F16.
Use if your device supports FP16, especially if BF16 is not available.
Smallest Q4_K variant, using less memory at the cost of accuracy.
Best for very low-memory setups.
Mungert/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct-GGUF-q6_k.gguf
Output & embeddings quantized to Q8_0.
All other layers quantized to Q6_K .
Mungert/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct-GGUF-q8_0.gguf
Fully Q8 quantized model for better accuracy.
Requires more memory but offers higher precision.
Mungert/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct-GGUF-iq3_xs.gguf
IQ3_XS quantization, optimized for extreme memory efficiency.
Best for ultra-low-memory devices.
Mungert/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct-GGUF-iq3_m.gguf
IQ3_M quantization, offering a medium block size for better accuracy.
Suitable for low-memory devices.
Mungert/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct-GGUF-q4_0.gguf
Pure Q4_0 quantization, optimized for ARM devices.
Best for low-memory environments.
Prefer IQ4_NL for better accuracy.
🚀 If you find these models useful
Please click like ❤ . Also I'd really appreciate it if you could test my Network Monitor Assistant at 👉 Network Monitor Assitant.
💬 Click the chat icon (bottom right of the main and dashboard pages) . Choose a LLM; toggle between the LLM Types TurboLLM -> FreeLLM -> TestLLM.
What I'm Testing
I'm experimenting with function calling against my network monitoring service. Using small open source models. I am into the question "How small can it go and still function".
🟡 TestLLM – Runs the current testing model using llama.cpp on 6 threads of a Cpu VM (Should take about 15s to load. Inference speed is quite slow and it only processes one user prompt at a time—still working on scaling!). If you're curious, I'd be happy to share how it works! .
The other Available AI Assistants
🟢 TurboLLM – Uses gpt-4o-mini Fast! . Note: tokens are limited since OpenAI models are pricey, but you can Login or Download the Quantum Network Monitor agent to get more tokens, Alternatively use the TestLLM .
🔵 HugLLM – Runs open-source Hugging Face models Fast, Runs small models (≈8B) hence lower quality, Get 2x more tokens (subject to Hugging Face API availability)
Final word
I fund the servers to create the models files, run the Quantum Network Monitor Service and Pay for Inference from Novita and OpenAI all from my own pocket. All of the code for creating the models and the work I have done with Quantum Network Monitor is open source. Feel free to use what you find useful. Please support my work and consider buying me a coffee .
This will help me pay for the services and increase the token limits for everyone.
In the past five months since Qwen2-VL’s release, numerous developers have built new models on the Qwen2-VL vision-language models, providing us with valuable feedback. During this period, we focused on building more useful vision-language models. Today, we are excited to introduce the latest addition to the Qwen family: Qwen2.5-VL.
Key Enhancements:
Understand things visually: Qwen2.5-VL is not only proficient in recognizing common objects such as flowers, birds, fish, and insects, but it is highly capable of analyzing texts, charts, icons, graphics, and layouts within images.
Being agentic: Qwen2.5-VL directly plays as a visual agent that can reason and dynamically direct tools, which is capable of computer use and phone use.
Understanding long videos and capturing events: Qwen2.5-VL can comprehend videos of over 1 hour, and this time it has a new ability of cpaturing event by pinpointing the relevant video segments.
Capable of visual localization in different formats: Qwen2.5-VL can accurately localize objects in an image by generating bounding boxes or points, and it can provide stable JSON outputs for coordinates and attributes.
Generating structured outputs: for data like scans of invoices, forms, tables, etc. Qwen2.5-VL supports structured outputs of their contents, benefiting usages in finance, commerce, etc.
Model Architecture Updates:
Dynamic Resolution and Frame Rate Training for Video Understanding:
We extend dynamic resolution to the temporal dimension by adopting dynamic FPS sampling, enabling the model to comprehend videos at various sampling rates. Accordingly, we update mRoPE in the time dimension with IDs and absolute time alignment, enabling the model to learn temporal sequence and speed, and ultimately acquire the ability to pinpoint specific moments.
Streamlined and Efficient Vision Encoder
We enhance both training and inference speeds by strategically implementing window attention into the ViT. The ViT architecture is further optimized with SwiGLU and RMSNorm, aligning it with the structure of the Qwen2.5 LLM.
We have three models with 3, 7 and 72 billion parameters. This repo contains the instruction-tuned 72B Qwen2.5-VL model. For more information, visit our Blog and GitHub.
Evaluation
Image benchmark
Benchmarks
GPT4o
Claude3.5 Sonnet
Gemini-2-flash
InternVL2.5-78B
Qwen2-VL-72B
Qwen2.5-VL-72B
MMMUval
70.3
70.4
70.7
70.1
64.5
70.2
MMMU_Pro
54.5
54.7
57.0
48.6
46.2
51.1
MathVista_MINI
63.8
65.4
73.1
76.6
70.5
74.8
MathVision_FULL
30.4
38.3
41.3
32.2
25.9
38.1
Hallusion Bench
55.0
55.16
57.4
58.1
55.16
MMBench_DEV_EN_V11
82.1
83.4
83.0
88.5
86.6
88
AI2D_TEST
84.6
81.2
89.1
88.1
88.4
ChartQA_TEST
86.7
90.8
85.2
88.3
88.3
89.5
DocVQA_VAL
91.1
95.2
92.1
96.5
96.1
96.4
MMStar
64.7
65.1
69.4
69.5
68.3
70.8
MMVet_turbo
69.1
70.1
72.3
74.0
76.19
OCRBench
736
788
854
877
885
OCRBench-V2(en/zh)
46.5/32.3
45.2/39.6
51.9/43.1
45/46.2
47.8/46.1
61.5/63.7
CC-OCR
66.6
62.7
73.0
64.7
68.7
79.8
Video benchmark
Benchmarks
GPT4o
Gemini-1.5-Pro
InternVL2.5-78B
Qwen2VL-72B
Qwen2.5VL-72B
VideoMME w/o sub.
71.9
75.0
72.1
71.2
73.3
VideoMME w sub.
77.2
81.3
74.0
77.8
79.1
MVBench
64.6
60.5
76.4
73.6
70.4
MMBench-Video
1.63
1.30
1.97
1.70
2.02
LVBench
30.8
33.1
-
41.3
47.3
EgoSchema
72.2
71.2
-
77.9
76.2
PerceptionTest_test
-
-
-
68.0
73.2
MLVU_M-Avg_dev
64.6
-
75.7
74.6
TempCompass_overall
73.8
-
-
74.8
Agent benchmark
Benchmarks
GPT4o
Gemini 2.0
Claude
Aguvis-72B
Qwen2VL-72B
Qwen2.5VL-72B
ScreenSpot
18.1
84.0
83.0
87.1
ScreenSpot Pro
17.1
1.6
43.6
AITZ_EM
35.3
72.8
83.2
Android Control High_EM
66.4
59.1
67.36
Android Control Low_EM
84.4
59.2
93.7
AndroidWorld_SR
34.5% (SoM)
27.9%
26.1%
35%
MobileMiniWob++_SR
66%
68%
OSWorld
14.90
10.26
8.83
Requirements
The code of Qwen2.5-VL has been in the latest Hugging face transformers and we advise you to build from source with command:
We offer a toolkit to help you handle various types of visual input more conveniently, as if you were using an API. This includes base64, URLs, and interleaved images and videos. You can install it using the following command:
bash
1# It's highly recommanded to use `[decord]` feature for faster video loading.2pip install qwen-vl-utils[decord]==0.0.8
If you are not using Linux, you might not be able to install decord from PyPI. In that case, you can use pip install qwen-vl-utils which will fall back to using torchvision for video processing. However, you can still install decord from source to get decord used when loading video.
Using 🤗 Transformers to Chat
Here we show a code snippet to show you how to use the chat model with transformers and qwen_vl_utils:
python
1from transformers import Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration, AutoTokenizer, AutoProcessor
2from qwen_vl_utils import process_vision_info
34# default: Load the model on the available device(s)5model = Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(6"Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct", torch_dtype="auto", device_map="auto"7)89# We recommend enabling flash_attention_2 for better acceleration and memory saving, especially in multi-image and video scenarios.10# model = Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(11# "Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct",12# torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,13# attn_implementation="flash_attention_2",14# device_map="auto",15# )1617# default processer18processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct")1920# The default range for the number of visual tokens per image in the model is 4-16384.21# You can set min_pixels and max_pixels according to your needs, such as a token range of 256-1280, to balance performance and cost.22# min_pixels = 256*28*2823# max_pixels = 1280*28*2824# processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct", min_pixels=min_pixels, max_pixels=max_pixels)2526messages =[27{28"role":"user",29"content":[30{31"type":"image",32"image":"https://qianwen-res.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/Qwen-VL/assets/demo.jpeg",33},34{"type":"text","text":"Describe this image."},35],36}37]3839# Preparation for inference40text = processor.apply_chat_template(41 messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True42)43image_inputs, video_inputs = process_vision_info(messages)44inputs = processor(45 text=[text],46 images=image_inputs,47 videos=video_inputs,48 padding=True,49 return_tensors="pt",50)51inputs = inputs.to("cuda")5253# Inference: Generation of the output54generated_ids = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=128)55generated_ids_trimmed =[56 out_ids[len(in_ids):]for in_ids, out_ids inzip(inputs.input_ids, generated_ids)57]58output_text = processor.batch_decode(59 generated_ids_trimmed, skip_special_tokens=True, clean_up_tokenization_spaces=False60)61print(output_text)
Multi image inference
python
1# Messages containing multiple images and a text query2messages =[3{4"role":"user",5"content":[6{"type":"image","image":"file:///path/to/image1.jpg"},7{"type":"image","image":"file:///path/to/image2.jpg"},8{"type":"text","text":"Identify the similarities between these images."},9],10}11]1213# Preparation for inference14text = processor.apply_chat_template(15 messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True16)17image_inputs, video_inputs = process_vision_info(messages)18inputs = processor(19 text=[text],20 images=image_inputs,21 videos=video_inputs,22 padding=True,23 return_tensors="pt",24)25inputs = inputs.to("cuda")2627# Inference28generated_ids = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=128)29generated_ids_trimmed =[30 out_ids[len(in_ids):]for in_ids, out_ids inzip(inputs.input_ids, generated_ids)31]32output_text = processor.batch_decode(33 generated_ids_trimmed, skip_special_tokens=True, clean_up_tokenization_spaces=False34)35print(output_text)
Video inference
python
1# Messages containing a images list as a video and a text query2messages =[3{4"role":"user",5"content":[6{7"type":"video",8"video":[9"file:///path/to/frame1.jpg",10"file:///path/to/frame2.jpg",11"file:///path/to/frame3.jpg",12"file:///path/to/frame4.jpg",13],14},15{"type":"text","text":"Describe this video."},16],17}18]1920# Messages containing a local video path and a text query21messages =[22{23"role":"user",24"content":[25{26"type":"video",27"video":"file:///path/to/video1.mp4",28"max_pixels":360*420,29"fps":1.0,30},31{"type":"text","text":"Describe this video."},32],33}34]3536# Messages containing a video url and a text query37messages =[38{39"role":"user",40"content":[41{42"type":"video",43"video":"https://qianwen-res.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/Qwen2-VL/space_woaudio.mp4",44},45{"type":"text","text":"Describe this video."},46],47}48]4950#In Qwen 2.5 VL, frame rate information is also input into the model to align with absolute time.51# Preparation for inference52text = processor.apply_chat_template(53 messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True54)55image_inputs, video_inputs, video_kwargs = process_vision_info(messages, return_video_kwargs=True)56inputs = processor(57 text=[text],58 images=image_inputs,59 videos=video_inputs,60 fps=fps,61 padding=True,62 return_tensors="pt",63**video_kwargs,64)65inputs = inputs.to("cuda")6667# Inference68generated_ids = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=128)69generated_ids_trimmed =[70 out_ids[len(in_ids):]for in_ids, out_ids inzip(inputs.input_ids, generated_ids)71]72output_text = processor.batch_decode(73 generated_ids_trimmed, skip_special_tokens=True, clean_up_tokenization_spaces=False74)75print(output_text)
Video URL compatibility largely depends on the third-party library version. The details are in the table below. change the backend by FORCE_QWENVL_VIDEO_READER=torchvision or FORCE_QWENVL_VIDEO_READER=decord if you prefer not to use the default one.
Backend
HTTP
HTTPS
torchvision >= 0.19.0
✅
✅
torchvision < 0.19.0
❌
❌
decord
✅
❌
Batch inference
python
1# Sample messages for batch inference2messages1 =[3{4"role":"user",5"content":[6{"type":"image","image":"file:///path/to/image1.jpg"},7{"type":"image","image":"file:///path/to/image2.jpg"},8{"type":"text","text":"What are the common elements in these pictures?"},9],10}11]12messages2 =[13{"role":"system","content":"You are a helpful assistant."},14{"role":"user","content":"Who are you?"},15]16# Combine messages for batch processing17messages =[messages1, messages2]1819# Preparation for batch inference20texts =[21 processor.apply_chat_template(msg, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True)22for msg in messages
23]24image_inputs, video_inputs = process_vision_info(messages)25inputs = processor(26 text=texts,27 images=image_inputs,28 videos=video_inputs,29 padding=True,30 return_tensors="pt",31)32inputs = inputs.to("cuda")3334# Batch Inference35generated_ids = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=128)36generated_ids_trimmed =[37 out_ids[len(in_ids):]for in_ids, out_ids inzip(inputs.input_ids, generated_ids)38]39output_texts = processor.batch_decode(40 generated_ids_trimmed, skip_special_tokens=True, clean_up_tokenization_spaces=False41)42print(output_texts)
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More Usage Tips
For input images, we support local files, base64, and URLs. For videos, we currently only support local files.
python
1# You can directly insert a local file path, a URL, or a base64-encoded image into the position where you want in the text.2## Local file path3messages =[4{5"role":"user",6"content":[7{"type":"image","image":"file:///path/to/your/image.jpg"},8{"type":"text","text":"Describe this image."},9],10}11]12## Image URL13messages =[14{15"role":"user",16"content":[17{"type":"image","image":"http://path/to/your/image.jpg"},18{"type":"text","text":"Describe this image."},19],20}21]22## Base64 encoded image23messages =[24{25"role":"user",26"content":[27{"type":"image","image":"data:image;base64,/9j/..."},28{"type":"text","text":"Describe this image."},29],30}31]
Image Resolution for performance boost
The model supports a wide range of resolution inputs. By default, it uses the native resolution for input, but higher resolutions can enhance performance at the cost of more computation. Users can set the minimum and maximum number of pixels to achieve an optimal configuration for their needs, such as a token count range of 256-1280, to balance speed and memory usage.
Besides, We provide two methods for fine-grained control over the image size input to the model:
Define min_pixels and max_pixels: Images will be resized to maintain their aspect ratio within the range of min_pixels and max_pixels.
Specify exact dimensions: Directly set resized_height and resized_width. These values will be rounded to the nearest multiple of 28.
python
1# min_pixels and max_pixels2messages =[3{4"role":"user",5"content":[6{7"type":"image",8"image":"file:///path/to/your/image.jpg",9"resized_height":280,10"resized_width":420,11},12{"type":"text","text":"Describe this image."},13],14}15]16# resized_height and resized_width17messages =[18{19"role":"user",20"content":[21{22"type":"image",23"image":"file:///path/to/your/image.jpg",24"min_pixels":50176,25"max_pixels":50176,26},27{"type":"text","text":"Describe this image."},28],29}30]
Processing Long Texts
The current config.json is set for context length up to 32,768 tokens.
To handle extensive inputs exceeding 32,768 tokens, we utilize YaRN, a technique for enhancing model length extrapolation, ensuring optimal performance on lengthy texts.
For supported frameworks, you could add the following to config.json to enable YaRN:
However, it should be noted that this method has a significant impact on the performance of temporal and spatial localization tasks, and is therefore not recommended for use.
At the same time, for long video inputs, since MRoPE itself is more economical with ids, the max_position_embeddings can be directly modified to a larger value, such as 64k.
Citation
If you find our work helpful, feel free to give us a cite.
@misc{qwen2.5-VL,
title = {Qwen2.5-VL},
url = {https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5-vl/},
author = {Qwen Team},
month = {January},
year = {2025}
}
@article{Qwen2VL,
title={Qwen2-VL: Enhancing Vision-Language Model's Perception of the World at Any Resolution},
author={Wang, Peng and Bai, Shuai and Tan, Sinan and Wang, Shijie and Fan, Zhihao and Bai, Jinze and Chen, Keqin and Liu, Xuejing and Wang, Jialin and Ge, Wenbin and Fan, Yang and Dang, Kai and Du, Mengfei and Ren, Xuancheng and Men, Rui and Liu, Dayiheng and Zhou, Chang and Zhou, Jingren and Lin, Junyang},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.12191},
year={2024}
}
@article{Qwen-VL,
title={Qwen-VL: A Versatile Vision-Language Model for Understanding, Localization, Text Reading, and Beyond},
author={Bai, Jinze and Bai, Shuai and Yang, Shusheng and Wang, Shijie and Tan, Sinan and Wang, Peng and Lin, Junyang and Zhou, Chang and Zhou, Jingren},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.12966},
year={2023}
}