helenai/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-ov-int4-npu

This is the Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct model, converted to OpenVINO, with int4 weights for the language model, int8 weights for the other models. The INT4 weights are compressed with symmetric, channel-wise quantization, with AWQ and scale estimation. The model works on CPU, GPU and NPU. See below for the model export command/properties.

Download Model

To download the model, run pip install huggingface-hub[cli] and then:

huggingface-cli download helenai/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-ov-int4-npu --local-dir Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-ov-int4-npu

Run inference with OpenVINO GenAI

Use OpenVINO GenAI to run inference on this model. This model works with OpenVINO GenAI 2025.3 and later. For NPU inference, make sure to use the latest NPU driver (Windows, Linux)

• Install OpenVINO GenAI and pillow:

pip install --upgrade openvino-genai pillow

• Download a test image: curl -O "https://storage.openvinotoolkit.org/test_data/images/dog.jpg"
• Run inference:

import numpy as np
import openvino as ov
import openvino_genai
from PIL import Image

# Choose GPU instead of NPU to run the model on Intel integrated or discrete GPU, or CPU to run on CPU.
# CACHE_DIR caches the model the first time, so subsequent model loading will be faster
pipeline_config = {"CACHE_DIR": "model_cache"}
pipe = openvino_genai.VLMPipeline("Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-ov-int4-npu", "NPU", **pipeline_config)

image = Image.open("dog.jpg")
# optional: resizing to a smaller size (depending on image and prompt) is often useful to speed up inference. 
image = image.resize((128, 128))

image_data = np.array(image.getdata()).reshape(1, image.size[1], image.size[0], 3).astype(np.uint8)
image_data = ov.Tensor(image_data)  

prompt = "Can you describe the image?"
result = pipe.generate(prompt, image=image_data, max_new_tokens=100)
print(result.texts[0])

See OpenVINO GenAI repository

Model export properties

Model export command:

optimum-cli export openvino -m Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct --weight-format int4 --group-size -1 --sym --awq --scale-estimation --dataset contextual Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-ov-int4-
npu

Framework versions

openvino_version         : 2025.3.0-19807-44526285f24-releases/2025/3
nncf_version             : 2.17.0
optimum_intel_version    : 1.26.0.dev0+0e2ccef
optimum_version          : 1.27.0
pytorch_version          : 2.7.1
transformers_version     : 4.51.3

LLM export properties

all_layers               : False
awq                      : True
backup_mode              : int8_asym
compression_format       : dequantize
gptq                     : False
group_size               : -1
ignored_scope            : []
lora_correction          : False
mode                     : int4_sym
ratio                    : 1.0
scale_estimation         : True
sensitivity_metric       : max_activation_variance