What are the hardware requirements for Qwen1.5 0.5B Chat AWQ?

Qwen1.5 0.5B Chat AWQ requires approximately 0.8 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen1.5 0.5B Chat AWQ and how large is it?

Qwen1.5 0.5B Chat AWQ is developed by Qwen, a model with 0.5b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Qwen1.5 0.5B Chat AWQ?

Qwen1.5 0.5B Chat AWQ is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen1.5 0.5B Chat AWQ by Qwen — VRAM 0.8GB, 32K context

Name: Qwen1.5 0.5B Chat AWQ
Author: Qwen

Qwen1.5 0.5B Chat AWQ is an open-source language model by Qwen. Features: 0.5b LLM, VRAM: 0.8GB, Context: 32K, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.11.

Arxiv:2309.16609 4-bit Awq Chat Conversational En Endpoints compatible Quantized Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen1.5-0.5B-Chat-AWQ

Qwen1.5 0.5B Chat AWQ Parameters and Internals

Model Type

transformer-based, decoder-only, language model

Training Details

Methodology:

pretrained on a large amount of data using both supervised finetuning and direct preference optimization

Context Length:

32000

Model Architecture:

Transformer architecture with SwiGLU activation, attention QKV bias, group query attention, mixture of sliding window attention and full attention

LLM Name	Qwen1.5 0.5B Chat AWQ
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen1.5-0.5B-Chat-AWQ
Base Model(s)	Xenova/Qwen1.5-0.5B-Chat Xenova/Qwen1.5-0.5B-Chat
Model Size	0.5b
Required VRAM	0.8 GB
Updated	2026-08-03
Maintainer	Qwen
Model Type	qwen2
Model Files	0.8 GB
Supported Languages	en
AWQ Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	awq
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.37.0
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	float16
Errors	replace

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