Instructions to use Qwen/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use Qwen/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="Qwen/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct") messages = [ { "role": "user", "content": [ {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"}, {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"} ] }, ] pipe(text=messages)# Load model directly from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForMultimodalLM processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct") model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct", device_map="auto") messages = [ { "role": "user", "content": [ {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"}, {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"} ] }, ] inputs = processor.apply_chat_template( messages, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=True, return_dict=True, return_tensors="pt", ).to(model.device) outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=40) print(processor.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:])) - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- vLLM
How to use Qwen/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "Qwen/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct" # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "Qwen/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] }'Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/Qwen/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct
- SGLang
How to use Qwen/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct with SGLang:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install SGLang from pip: pip install sglang # Start the SGLang server: python3 -m sglang.launch_server \ --model-path "Qwen/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "Qwen/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] }'Use Docker images
docker run --gpus all \ --shm-size 32g \ -p 30000:30000 \ -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \ --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \ --ipc=host \ lmsysorg/sglang:latest \ python3 -m sglang.launch_server \ --model-path "Qwen/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "Qwen/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] }' - Docker Model Runner
How to use Qwen/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/Qwen/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct
it run on cpu
!pip install -U diffusers
!pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
!pip uninstall -y tensorflow && pip install tensorflow-cpu
!pip install qwen-vl-utils
!pip install git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers
from transformers import Qwen2VLForConditionalGeneration, AutoTokenizer, AutoProcessor
from qwen_vl_utils import process_vision_info
import torch
default: Load the model on the available device(s)
model = Qwen2VLForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
"Qwen/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct", torch_dtype="auto"
)
Move the model to the desired device
DEVICE = torch.device("cpu")
model.to(DEVICE)
Enable CPU offloading if desired
USE_CPU_OFFLOAD = True
... rest of the code ...
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct")
messages = [
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{
"type": "image",
"image": "https://qianwen-res.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/Qwen-VL/assets/demo.jpeg",
},
{"type": "text", "text": "Describe this image."},
],
}
]
text = processor.apply_chat_template(
messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True
)
image_inputs, video_inputs = process_vision_info(messages)
inputs = processor(
text=[text],
images=image_inputs,
videos=video_inputs,
padding=True,
return_tensors="pt",
)
inputs = inputs.to("cpu")
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)
from transformers import Qwen2VLForConditionalGeneration, AutoTokenizer, AutoProcessor
from qwen_vl_utils import process_vision_info
import torch
default: Load the model on the available device(s)
model = Qwen2VLForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
"Qwen/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct", torch_dtype="auto"
)
Move the model to the desired device
DEVICE = torch.device("cpu")
model.to(DEVICE)
Enable CPU offloading if desired
USE_CPU_OFFLOAD = True
... rest of the code ...
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct")
messages = [
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{
"type": "image",
"image": "https://qianwen-res.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/Qwen-VL/assets/demo.jpeg",
},
{"type": "text", "text": "Describe this image."},
],
}
]
text = processor.apply_chat_template(
messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True
)
image_inputs, video_inputs = process_vision_info(messages)
inputs = processor(
text=[text],
images=image_inputs,
videos=video_inputs,
padding=True,
return_tensors="pt",
)
inputs = inputs.to("cpu")
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)
The image depicts a serene beach scene with a woman and her dog. The woman is sitting on the sand, wearing a plaid shirt and black pants, and appears to be smiling. She is holding the dog's paw in a high-five gesture. The dog, which is a large breed, is wearing a harness and is sitting on the sand with its front paws raised, possibly in a playful or training pose. The background shows the ocean with gentle waves, and the sky is clear with a soft light, suggesting it might be either sunrise or sunset. The overall atmosphere is calm and joyful, capturing a moment of connection between the woman"]
Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct_cpu.ipynb
!pip install -U diffusers
!pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
!pip uninstall -y tensorflow && pip install tensorflow-cpu
pip install qwen-vl-utils
pip install git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers
colab tpu for big ram only but code work on cpu


