What are the hardware requirements for QwQ 0.5B Distilled SFT?

QwQ 0.5B Distilled SFT requires approximately 1 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 QwQ 0.5B Distilled SFT and how large is it?

QwQ 0.5B Distilled SFT is developed by kz919, 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 QwQ 0.5B Distilled SFT?

QwQ 0.5B Distilled SFT is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

QwQ 0.5B Distilled SFT by kz919 — VRAM 1GB, 32K context

Name: QwQ 0.5B Distilled SFT
Author: kz919

QwQ 0.5B Distilled SFT is an open-source language model by kz919. Features: 0.5b LLM, VRAM: 1GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen2... Base model:qwen/qwen2.5-0.5b-i... Conversational Dataset:amphora/qwq-longcot-13... Dataset:powerinfer/longcot-ref... Dataset:powerinfer/qwq-longcot... En Endpoints compatible Instruct Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/kz919/QwQ-0.5B-Distilled-SFT

QwQ 0.5B Distilled SFT Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	QwQ 0.5B Distilled SFT
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/kz919/QwQ-0.5B-Distilled-SFT
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct
Model Size	0.5b
Required VRAM	1 GB
Updated	2026-07-28
Maintainer	kz919
Model Type	qwen2
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	1.0 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.47.1
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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