Ollama

Ollama helps you run LLMs locally with only a few commands. It is available at MacOS, Linux, and Windows. Now, Qwen2 is officially on Ollama, and you can run it with one command:

ollama run qwen2

Next, we introduce more detailed usages of Ollama for running Qwen2 models.

Quickstart

Visit the official website Ollama and click download to install Ollama on your device. You can also search models in the website, where you can find the Qwen2 models. Except for the default one, you can choose to run Qwen2-Instruct models of different sizes by:

  • ollama run qwen2:0.5b

  • ollama run qwen2:1.5b

  • ollama run qwen2:7b

  • ollama run qwen2:72b

Note

ollama does not host base models. Even though the tag may not have the instruct suffix, they are all instruct models.

Run Ollama with Your GGUF Files

Sometimes you don’t want to pull models and you just want to use Ollama with your own GGUF files. Suppose you have a GGUF file of Qwen2, qwen2-7b-instruct-q5_0.gguf. For the first step, you need to create a file called Modelfile. The content of the file is shown below:

FROM qwen2-7b-instruct-q5_0.gguf

# set the temperature to 1 [higher is more creative, lower is more coherent]
PARAMETER temperature 0.7
PARAMETER top_p 0.8
PARAMETER repeat_penalty 1.05
PARAMETER top_k 20

TEMPLATE """{{ if and .First .System }}<|im_start|>system
{{ .System }}<|im_end|>
{{ end }}<|im_start|>user
{{ .Prompt }}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
{{ .Response }}"""

# set the system message
SYSTEM """
You are a helpful assistant.
"""

Then create the ollama model by running:

ollama create qwen2_7b -f Modelfile

Once it is finished, you can run your ollama model by:

ollama run qwen2_7b