# Qwen/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct

This model is an instruction tuned multimodal system for images and videos, with native support for arbitrary image resolutions. It can understand videos longer than 20 minutes and text in multiple languages inside images.

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## Facts

- Type: Vision
- Task: image-text-to-text
- Framework: transformers
- License: apache-2.0: Permissive open license: commercial use, modification, and redistribution are permitted. (https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct/blob/main/LICENSE)
- Source: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct
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## Description

This model is an instruction tuned multimodal system for images and videos, with native support for arbitrary image resolutions. It can understand videos longer than 20 minutes and text in multiple languages inside images.

## Model Card Facts

- Declared license: apache-2.0
- Pipeline: image-text-to-text
- Library: transformers
- Task categories: image-text-to-text
- Languages: en
- Paper ids: 2409.12191, 2308.12966
- File hints: 14 upstream file samples

## Referenced Data

- Paper: 2409.12191
- Paper: 2308.12966

## File Hints

- .gitattributes (1.5 KB)
- LICENSE (11 KB)
- README.md (17 KB)
- chat_template.json (1.0 KB)
- config.json (1.2 KB)
- generation_config.json (272 B)
- merges.txt (1.6 MB)
- model-00001-of-00002.safetensors (3.7 GB) LFS
- model-00002-of-00002.safetensors (410 MB) LFS
- model.safetensors.index.json (55 KB)
- preprocessor_config.json (347 B)
- tokenizer.json (6.7 MB)

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- Summary: passed
- Description: passed
- Model card metadata: passed
- License: passed
- Provenance: passed
- File inventory: passed
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- Scan result: passed
- Manifest signature: passed

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- External catalog metadata imported from Hugging Face public API on 2026-07-02T03:32:05.009Z.
- Open license detected as apache-2.0.
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