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Qwen2.5-VL Technical Report

19 Feb 2025arXiv:2502.13923archive 2025-07-28

Shuai Bai, Keqin Chen, Xuejing Liu, Jialin Wang, Wenbin Ge, Sibo Song, Kai Dang, Peng Wang, Shijie Wang, Jun Tang, Humen Zhong, Yuanzhi Zhu, Mingkun Yang, Zhaohai Li, Jianqiang Wan, Pengfei Wang, Wei Ding, Zheren Fu, Yiheng Xu, Jiabo Ye, Xi Zhang, Tianbao Xie, Zesen Cheng, Hang Zhang, Zhibo Yang, Haiyang Xu, Junyang Lin

We introduce Qwen2.5-VL, the latest flagship model of Qwen vision-language series, which demonstrates significant advancements in both foundational capabilities and innovative functionalities. Qwen2.5-VL achieves a major leap forward in understanding and interacting with the world through enhanced visual recognition, precise object localization, robust document parsing, and long-video comprehension. A standout feature of Qwen2.5-VL is its ability to localize objects using bounding boxes or points accurately. It provides robust structured data extraction from invoices, forms, and tables, as well as detailed analysis of charts, diagrams, and layouts. To handle complex inputs, Qwen2.5-VL introduces dynamic resolution processing and absolute time encoding, enabling it to process images of varying sizes and videos of extended durations (up to hours) with second-level event localization. This allows the model to natively perceive spatial scales and temporal dynamics without relying on traditional normalization techniques. By training a native dynamic-resolution Vision Transformer (ViT) from scratch and incorporating Window Attention, we reduce computational overhead while maintaining native resolution. As a result, Qwen2.5-VL excels not only in static image and document understanding but also as an interactive visual agent capable of reasoning, tool usage, and task execution in real-world scenarios such as operating computers and mobile devices. Qwen2.5-VL is available in three sizes, addressing diverse use cases from edge AI to high-performance computing. The flagship Qwen2.5-VL-72B model matches state-of-the-art models like GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet, particularly excelling in document and diagram understanding. Additionally, Qwen2.5-VL maintains robust linguistic performance, preserving the core language competencies of the Qwen2.5 LLM.

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Object LocalizationVisual Question Answering (VQA)document understanding

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
ImplicitQA Qwen 2.5 VL - 7B Average Accuracy 42.8 #5 of 7 Archive leaderboard report
ImplicitQA Qwen 2.5 VL - 7B Macro Average Accuracy 46.1 #5 of 7 Archive leaderboard report
Visual Question Answering (VQA) VLM2-Bench Qwen2.5-VL-7B Average Score on VLM2-bench (9 subtasks) 54.82 #2 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Visual Question Answering (VQA) VLM2-Bench Qwen2.5-VL-7B GC-mat 35.91 #2 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Visual Question Answering (VQA) VLM2-Bench Qwen2.5-VL-7B GC-trk 43.38 #2 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Visual Question Answering (VQA) VLM2-Bench Qwen2.5-VL-7B OC-cnt 41.72 #2 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Visual Question Answering (VQA) VLM2-Bench Qwen2.5-VL-7B OC-cpr 71.39 #2 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Visual Question Answering (VQA) VLM2-Bench Qwen2.5-VL-7B OC-grp 47.50 #2 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Visual Question Answering (VQA) VLM2-Bench Qwen2.5-VL-7B PC-VID 46.50 #2 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Visual Question Answering (VQA) VLM2-Bench Qwen2.5-VL-7B PC-cnt 57.98 #2 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Visual Question Answering (VQA) VLM2-Bench Qwen2.5-VL-7B PC-cpr 80.00 #2 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Visual Question Answering (VQA) VLM2-Bench Qwen2.5-VL-7B PC-grp 69.00 #2 of 9 Archive leaderboard report

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Methods

Absolute Position EncodingsAdamAttentionBPEDense ConnectionsDropoutLabel SmoothingLayer NormalizationLinear LayerMulti-Head AttentionPosition-Wise Feed-Forward LayerResidual ConnectionSoftmaxTransformerVision Transformer

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