Qwen2.5-VL

This model was released on 2025-02-19 and added to Hugging Face Transformers on 2025-01-23.

Qwen2.5-VL

Qwen2.5-VL is a multimodal vision-language model, available in 3B, 7B, and 72B parameters, pretrained on 4.1T tokens. The model introduces window attention in the ViT encoder to accelerate training and inference, dynamic FPS sampling on the spatial and temporal dimensions for better video understanding across different sampling rates, and an upgraded MRoPE (multi-resolutional rotary positional encoding) mechanism to better capture and learn temporal dynamics.

You can find all the original Qwen2.5-VL checkpoints under the Qwen2.5-VL collection.

The example below demonstrates how to generate text based on an image with Pipeline or the AutoModel class.

import torch
from transformers import pipeline
pipe = pipeline(
    task="image-text-to-text",
    model="Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct",
    device=0,
    dtype=torch.bfloat16
)
messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {
                "type": "image",
                "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/pipeline-cat-chonk.jpeg",
            },
            { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image."},
        ]
    }
]
pipe(text=messages,max_new_tokens=20, return_full_text=False)

import torch
from transformers import Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration, AutoProcessor

model = Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
    "Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct",
    dtype=torch.float16,
    device_map="auto",
    attn_implementation="sdpa"
)
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct")
messages = [
    {
        "role":"user",
        "content":[
            {
                "type":"image",
                "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/pipeline-cat-chonk.jpeg"
            },
            {
                "type":"text",
                "text":"Describe this image."
            }
        ]
    }

]

inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(
    messages,
    add_generation_prompt=True,
    tokenize=True,
    return_dict=True,
    return_tensors="pt"
).to(model.device)

generated_ids = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=128)
generated_ids_trimmed = [
            out_ids[len(in_ids) :] for in_ids, out_ids in zip(inputs.input_ids, generated_ids)
]
output_text = processor.batch_decode(
       generated_ids_trimmed, skip_special_tokens=True, clean_up_tokenization_spaces=False
)
print(output_text)

Quantization reduces the memory burden of large models by representing the weights in a lower precision. Refer to the Quantization overview for more available quantization backends.

The example below uses torchao to only quantize the weights to int4.

import torch
from transformers import TorchAoConfig, Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration, AutoProcessor

quantization_config = TorchAoConfig("int4_weight_only", group_size=128)
model = Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
    "Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct",
    dtype=torch.bfloat16,
    device_map="auto",
    quantization_config=quantization_config
)

Notes

Use Qwen2.5-VL for video inputs by setting "type": "video" as shown below.

conversation = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "video", "path": "/path/to/video.mp4"},
            {"type": "text", "text": "What happened in the video?"},
        ],
    }
]

inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(
    conversation,
    fps=1,
    add_generation_prompt=True,
    tokenize=True,
    return_dict=True,
    return_tensors="pt"
).to(model.device)

# Inference: Generation of the output
output_ids = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=128)
generated_ids = [output_ids[len(input_ids):] for input_ids, output_ids in zip(inputs.input_ids, output_ids)]
output_text = processor.batch_decode(generated_ids, skip_special_tokens=True, clean_up_tokenization_spaces=True)
print(output_text)

Use Qwen2.5-VL for a mixed batch of inputs (images, videos, text). Add labels when handling multiple images or videos for better reference as show below.

import torch
from transformers import Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration, AutoProcessor

model = Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
    "Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct",
    dtype=torch.float16,
    device_map="auto",
    attn_implementation="sdpa"
)
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct")
conversation = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "image"},
            {"type": "text", "text": "Hello, how are you?"}
        ]
    },
    {
        "role": "assistant",
        "content": "I'm doing well, thank you for asking. How can I assist you today?"
    },
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "text", "text": "Can you describe these images and video?"},
            {"type": "image"},
            {"type": "image"},
            {"type": "video"},
            {"type": "text", "text": "These are from my vacation."}
        ]
    },
    {
        "role": "assistant",
        "content": "I'd be happy to describe the images and video for you. Could you please provide more context about your vacation?"
    },
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": "It was a trip to the mountains. Can you see the details in the images and video?"
    }
]

# default:
prompt_without_id = processor.apply_chat_template(conversation, add_generation_prompt=True)
# Excepted output: '<|im_start|>system\nYou are a helpful assistant.<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>user\n<|vision_start|><|image_pad|><|vision_end|>Hello, how are you?<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>assistant\nI'm doing well, thank you for asking. How can I assist you today?<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>user\nCan you describe these images and video?<|vision_start|><|image_pad|><|vision_end|><|vision_start|><|image_pad|><|vision_end|><|vision_start|><|video_pad|><|vision_end|>These are from my vacation.<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>assistant\nI'd be happy to describe the images and video for you. Could you please provide more context about your vacation?<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>user\nIt was a trip to the mountains. Can you see the details in the images and video?<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>assistant\n'


# add ids
prompt_with_id = processor.apply_chat_template(conversation, add_generation_prompt=True, add_vision_id=True)
# Excepted output: '<|im_start|>system\nYou are a helpful assistant.<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>user\nPicture 1: <|vision_start|><|image_pad|><|vision_end|>Hello, how are you?<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>assistant\nI'm doing well, thank you for asking. How can I assist you today?<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>user\nCan you describe these images and video?Picture 2: <|vision_start|><|image_pad|><|vision_end|>Picture 3: <|vision_start|><|image_pad|><|vision_end|>Video 1: <|vision_start|><|video_pad|><|vision_end|>These are from my vacation.<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>assistant\nI'd be happy to describe the images and video for you. Could you please provide more context about your vacation?<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>user\nIt was a trip to the mountains. Can you see the details in the images and video?<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>assistant\n'

Use the min_pixels and max_pixels parameters in AutoProcessor to set the resolution.

min_pixels = 224*224
max_pixels = 2048*2048
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct", min_pixels=min_pixels, max_pixels=max_pixels)

Higher resolution can require more compute whereas reducing the resolution can save memory as follows:

min_pixels = 256*28*28
max_pixels = 1024*28*28
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct", min_pixels=min_pixels, max_pixels=max_pixels)

Qwen2_5_VLConfig

[[autodoc]] Qwen2_5_VLConfig

Qwen2_5_VLTextConfig

[[autodoc]] Qwen2_5_VLTextConfig

Qwen2_5_VLProcessor

[[autodoc]] Qwen2_5_VLProcessor

Qwen2_5_VLTextModel

[[autodoc]] Qwen2_5_VLTextModel - forward

Qwen2_5_VLModel

[[autodoc]] Qwen2_5_VLModel - forward

Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration

[[autodoc]] Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration - forward