---
license: apache-2.0
base_model: Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct
base_model_relation: quantized
pipeline_tag: text-generation
language:
- en
tags:
- coreml
- apple-neural-engine
- on-device
- qwen2
- code
library_name: coreml
---

# qwen2.5-coder-0.5b-coreml

[Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct) converted to Core ML: it
writes Python from a plain-English request, fully on device. One 944 MB fp16 package with two functions that share
the weights:

| Function | Shape | Runs on | p50 (M5 Pro, macOS 27, from Swift) |
|---|---|---|---:|
| `prefill` | 448 tokens, fixed | Neural Engine (1,451 / 1,456 ops) | 52 ms |
| `decode` | 1 token, 1,024-slot KV cache in `MLState` | GPU | 25–28 ms / token (36–40 tok/s) |

A typical function (100–330 tokens) is written in 3–9 s. The prompt runs on the Neural Engine; the token-by-token
writing runs on the GPU, because the Neural Engine rejects the decoder's in-graph KV-cache write. By time, the
Neural Engine carries about 1% of a task.

## Quality

Greedy decoding, pass@1, same prompt and test harness for both rows:

| Benchmark | PyTorch fp32 | This Core ML package |
|---|---:|---:|
| HumanEval (164) | 90 / 164 = 54.9% | 89 / 164 = 54.3% |
| MBPP sanitized, test split (257) | — | 119 / 257 = 46.3% |

On HumanEval, 142 of 164 completions are token-for-token identical to PyTorch; one task flips from pass to fail.
Qwen reports 61.6% HumanEval for this model with its own evaluation harness; the numbers above use plain greedy
decoding (`repetition_penalty` 1.0) and a simple code extractor, applied identically to both rows.

## Files

- `qwen2_5_coder_0_5b.mlpackage` — multifunction Core ML package (`prefill`, `decode`), token-id inputs (embedding
  lookup and RoPE tables are inside the graph).
- `tokenizer.json` — Qwen2.5 byte-level BPE.
- `config.json` — host settings: prefill length 448, cache 1,024, pad / stop ids, max new tokens 512, system prompt.

## Demo

`CodeWriterDemo` in [FluidInference/FluidUse](https://github.com/FluidInference/FluidUse): a list of ten short
Python tasks (from MBPP, one per Python feature: list comprehension, slicing, dict, string methods, `sorted`, …).
The model writes each one live into an editor, then `python3` runs the task's asserts. The demo list is
hand-picked for the recording; the MBPP row above is the unbiased number.

```bash
swift run -c release CodeWriterDemo   # downloads this repository on first launch
```

## Use

Swift host: `CodeWriterManager` in the same repository.

```swift
let writer = try await CodeWriterManager.load(from: modelDirectory)
let result = try await writer.write(task: "Write a function to reverse each string in a list.") { text in
    print(text)  // the text so far, after every token
}
print(result.code, result.timing.tokensPerSecond)
```

Prompt (Qwen2.5 chat template):

```
<|im_start|>system
{config.systemPrompt}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
{task}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
```

Left-pad the token ids to 448 with `padID`, mask padded columns, run `prefill`, copy its `keys` / `values`
(`[24, 2, 448, 64]` fp16) into the decoder state (`k_cache_i` / `v_cache_i`, `[1, 2, 1024, 64]`), then call
`decode` one token at a time (`input_ids`, `attention_mask` `[1, 1, 1, 1024]`, `cache_position`) until
`<|im_end|>`. Greedy decoding reproduces the benchmarked completions.

## Provenance

Base: [Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct) (Apache-2.0),
weights unchanged apart from fp16 storage. Conversion: coremltools 9.0, torch 2.7.0, `minimum_deployment_target`
macOS 15 / iOS 18. Benchmarks: [HumanEval](https://github.com/openai/human-eval) (MIT),
[MBPP](https://github.com/google-research/google-research/tree/master/mbpp) (CC-BY-4.0).