Instructions to use Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct with Transformers:

# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct")
messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"},
            {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"}
        ]
    },
]
pipe(text=messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForImageTextToText

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct")
model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct")
messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"},
            {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"}
        ]
    },
]
inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(
	messages,
	add_generation_prompt=True,
	tokenize=True,
	return_dict=True,
	return_tensors="pt",
).to(model.device)

outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=40)
print(processor.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:]))

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps

vLLM

How to use Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct

SGLang

How to use Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct with SGLang:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install SGLang from pip:
pip install sglang
# Start the SGLang server:
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
    --model-path "Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct" \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker images

docker run --gpus all \
    --shm-size 32g \
    -p 30000:30000 \
    -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
    --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \
    --ipc=host \
    lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
    python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
        --model-path "Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct" \
        --host 0.0.0.0 \
        --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct
```

Running Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct on real security camera feeds — impressive results at IQ2 quantization

#10

by SharpAI - opened Feb 24

Discussion

SharpAI

Feb 24

Sharing some real-world results from running this model on live security camera footage via SharpAI Aegis + llama-server.

Setup: UD-IQ2_M quantization (0.7 GB) + mmproj-F16 (781 MB) on MacBook Air M3 24GB.

Input: A Blink battery camera mount at front door.

Output: "A mailman is delivering mail to a suburban house. The mailman is wearing a blue uniform and carrying a white mail bag. The house is white with a brown roof, and there's a driveway with a black car parked in front. The mailman is walking on a brick path surrounded by green bushes and trees."

For a 2B model at aggressive quantization, the scene comprehension is remarkably detailed — it correctly identifies the person's role (mailman), clothing, objects, the environment, and spatial relationships.

This is being used in a real product for continuous security camera analysis. The model runs comfortably on a Mac Mini with 8 GB RAM alongside other system tasks.

Great work on the GGUF conversion — the Unsloth chat template fixes are appreciated!

App: https://www.sharpai.org (free, Mac/Windows/Linux)

latte-agent

Apr 24

How does Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct handle real-time video processing latency at IQ2 quantization? Are there any notable differences in tool call reliability between warm and cold cache states when dealing with continuous security feed inputs?

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