Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct

ProviderQwen
Categoryimage-text-to-text
Licenseapache-2.0
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Overview

Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct is a compact yet powerful vision-language model designed for efficient multimodal processing. Unlike larger VLMs that demand massive VRAM, this 4B parameter version balances latency and reasoning, making it ideal for edge deployment or as a specialized agent in a larger pipeline. It excels at high-resolution image understanding, document parsing, and visual grounding, allowing developers to build applications that can accurately interpret complex layouts or extract data from images. With an Apache-2.0 license, it offers significant flexibility for commercial integration. Compared to previous iterations, it demonstrates improved spatial awareness and a more refined instruction-following capability in image-text tasks, providing a reliable alternative for developers who need a lightweight model without sacrificing significant accuracy.

Highlights

  • Efficient 4B parameter size for low-latency multimodal inference.
  • Strong high-resolution image understanding and document parsing capabilities.
  • Permissive Apache-2.0 license for seamless commercial deployment.
  • Optimized for visual grounding and precise instruction following.

Usage

Install
# Install Hugging Face transformers
pip install transformers torch
SDK Usage
# Load model with transformers
from transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer

model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct")

Hugging Face Download

We recommend downloading the model via the Hugging Face CLI or Hub SDK.

Guidance:Before downloading, install huggingface_hub with:

Guidance
pip install -U huggingface_hub

CLI Download

Download the full repository

Download the full repository
huggingface-cli download Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct

Download a single file to a local folder (e.g. config.json into ./dir)

Download a single file to a local folder (e.g. config.json into ./dir)
huggingface-cli download Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct config.json --local-dir ./dir

See the official docs for more CLI options

SDK Download

SDK Download
# 模型下载
from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
model_dir = snapshot_download('Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct')

Git Download

Make sure git-lfs is installed first

Git Download
git lfs install
git clone https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct

To skip LFS large-file downloads, use:

Skip LFS
GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct

Model files are hosted on the Hugging Face Hub — download directly via HF CLI / SDK / Git, not through this site.

PyTorch / Transformers Usage

Install Transformers

Install Transformers
pip install -U transformers torch

Load the model and run inference

Load the model and run inference
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained('Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct')
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct')

Model Download

We recommend downloading the model via the ModelScope CLI or SDK.

Guidance:Before downloading, install ModelScope with:

Guidance
pip install modelscope

CLI Download

Download the full repository

Download the full repository
modelscope download --model Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct

Download a single file to a local folder (e.g. README.md into ./dir)

Download a single file to a local folder (e.g. README.md into ./dir)
modelscope download --model Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct README.md --local_dir ./dir

See the docs for more CLI options

SDK Download

SDK Download
# 模型下载
from modelscope import snapshot_download
model_dir = snapshot_download('Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct')

Git Download

Make sure git-lfs is installed first

Git Download
git lfs install
git clone https://www.modelscope.cn/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct.git

To skip LFS large-file downloads, use:

Skip LFS
GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone https://www.modelscope.cn/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct.git

ModelScope 模型页直接下载模型文件;无需将模型文件放在本站服务器。

Notebook Quickstart

Install the ModelScope library

Install the ModelScope library
pip install "modelscope[audio,cv,nlp,multi-modal,science]" -f https://modelscope.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/releases/repo.html

Load the model and run inference

Load the model and run inference
from modelscope.pipelines import pipeline
from modelscope.utils.constant import Tasks

p = pipeline('text-generation', 'Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct')

Full Documentation

来源: HuggingFace

---
license: apache-2.0
pipeline_tag: image-text-to-text
library_name: transformers
---
<a href="https://chat.qwenlm.ai/" target="_blank" style="margin: 2px;">
<img alt="Chat" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/%F0%9F%92%9C%EF%B8%8F%20Qwen%20Chat%20-536af5" style="display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle;"/>
</a>

Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct

Meet Qwen3-VL — the most powerful vision-language model in the Qwen series to date.

This generation delivers comprehensive upgrades across the board: superior text understanding & generation, deeper visual perception & reasoning, extended context length, enhanced spatial and video dynamics comprehension, and stronger agent interaction capabilities.

Available in Dense and MoE architectures that scale from edge to cloud, with Instruct and reasoning‑enhanced Thinking editions for flexible, on‑demand deployment.

#### Key Enhancements:

  • Visual Agent: Operates PC/mobile GUIs—recognizes elements, understands functions, invokes tools, completes tasks.
  • Visual Coding Boost: Generates Draw.io/HTML/CSS/JS from images/videos.
  • Advanced Spatial Perception: Judges object positions, viewpoints, and occlusions; provides stronger 2D grounding and enables 3D grounding for spatial reasoning and embodied AI.
  • Long Context & Video Understanding: Native 256K context, expandable to 1M; handles books and hours-long video with full recall and second-level indexing.
  • Enhanced Multimodal Reasoning: Excels in STEM/Math—causal analysis and logical, evidence-based answers.
  • Upgraded Visual Recognition: Broader, higher-quality pretraining is able to “recognize everything”—celebrities, anime, products, landmarks, flora/fauna, etc.
  • Expanded OCR: Supports 32 languages (up from 19); robust in low light, blur, and tilt; better with rare/ancient characters and jargon; improved long-document structure parsing.
  • Text Understanding on par with pure LLMs: Seamless text–vision fusion for lossless, unified comprehension.

#### Model Architecture Updates:

<p align="center">
<img src="https://qianwen-res.oss-accelerate.aliyuncs.com/Qwen3-VL/qwen3vl_arc.jpg" width="80%"/>
<p>

1. Interleaved-MRoPE: Full‑frequency allocation over time, width, and height via robust positional embeddings, enhancing long‑horizon video reasoning.

2. DeepStack: Fuses multi‑level ViT features to capture fine‑grained details and sharpen image–text alignment.

3. Text–Timestamp Alignment: Moves beyond T‑RoPE to precise, timestamp‑grounded event localization for stronger video temporal modeling.

This is the weight repository for Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct.

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Model Performance

Multimodal performance

![](https://qianwen-res.oss-accelerate.aliyuncs.com/Qwen3-VL/qwen3vl_4b_8b_vl_instruct.jpg)

Pure text performance
![](https://qianwen-res.oss-accelerate.aliyuncs.com/Qwen3-VL/qwen3vl_4b_8b_text_instruct.jpg)

Quickstart

Below, we provide simple examples to show how to use Qwen3-VL with 🤖 ModelScope and 🤗 Transformers.

The code of Qwen3-VL has been in the latest Hugging Face transformers and we advise you to build from source with command:

code
pip install git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers

pip install transformers==4.57.0 # currently, V4.57.0 is not released

Using 🤗 Transformers to Chat

Here we show a code snippet to show how to use the chat model with transformers:

python
from transformers import Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration, AutoProcessor

default: Load the model on the available device(s)

model = Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained( "Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct", dtype="auto", device_map="auto" )

We recommend enabling flash_attention_2 for better acceleration and memory saving, especially in multi-image and video scenarios.

model = Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(

"Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct",

dtype=torch.bfloat16,

attn_implementation="flash_attention_2",

device_map="auto",

)

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-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."},
],
}
]

Preparation for inference

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

Inference: Generation of the output

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)

Generation Hyperparameters

#### VL
bash
export greedy='false'
export top_p=0.8
export top_k=20
export temperature=0.7
export repetition_penalty=1.0
export presence_penalty=1.5
export out_seq_length=16384

#### Text

bash
export greedy='false'
export top_p=1.0
export top_k=40
export repetition_penalty=1.0
export presence_penalty=2.0
export temperature=1.0
export out_seq_length=32768

Citation

If you find our work helpful, feel free to give us a cite.

code
@misc{qwen3technicalreport,
      title={Qwen3 Technical Report}, 
      author={Qwen Team},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2505.09388},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09388}, 
}

@article{Qwen2.5-VL,
title={Qwen2.5-VL Technical Report},
author={Bai, Shuai and Chen, Keqin and Liu, Xuejing and Wang, Jialin and Ge, Wenbin and Song, Sibo and Dang, Kai and Wang, Peng and Wang, Shijie and Tang, Jun and Zhong, Humen and Zhu, Yuanzhi and Yang, Mingkun and Li, Zhaohai and Wan, Jianqiang and Wang, Pengfei and Ding, Wei and Fu, Zheren and Xu, Yiheng and Ye, Jiabo and Zhang, Xi and Xie, Tianbao and Cheng, Zesen and Zhang, Hang and Yang, Zhibo and Xu, Haiyang and Lin, Junyang},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.13923},
year={2025}
}

@article{Qwen2VL,
title={Qwen2-VL: Enhancing Vision-Language Model's Perception of the World at Any Resolution},
author={Wang, Peng and Bai, Shuai and Tan, Sinan and Wang, Shijie and Fan, Zhihao and Bai, Jinze and Chen, Keqin and Liu, Xuejing and Wang, Jialin and Ge, Wenbin and Fan, Yang and Dang, Kai and Du, Mengfei and Ren, Xuancheng and Men, Rui and Liu, Dayiheng and Zhou, Chang and Zhou, Jingren and Lin, Junyang},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.12191},
year={2024}
}

@article{Qwen-VL,
title={Qwen-VL: A Versatile Vision-Language Model for Understanding, Localization, Text Reading, and Beyond},
author={Bai, Jinze and Bai, Shuai and Yang, Shusheng and Wang, Shijie and Tan, Sinan and Wang, Peng and Lin, Junyang and Zhou, Chang and Zhou, Jingren},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.12966},
year={2023}
}

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