library_name, language, license, base_model, tags
library_name language license base_model tags
transformers
en
apache-2.0 Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B
transformers
medical
biomedical
continued-pretraining
qwen2.5
pubmed
causal-lm

Qwen2.5-0.5B-Med-Pre-Trained-92k

A continued pre-trained (CPT) version of Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B on 92,000 English PubMed biomedical abstracts.

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Training Details

Property Value
Base model Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B
Training type Full-parameter Continued Pre-Training (CPT)
Dataset VietAI/vi_pubmed (92k English abstracts)
Tokens trained on ~23.6 million
Block size 256 tokens
Training objective Causal Language Modeling (CLM)
Optimizer AdamW 8-bit (bitsandbytes)
Learning rate 2e-5 (cosine schedule)
Hardware Kaggle Tesla T4 (15.6GB VRAM)
Training time ~3h 45m
Starting loss 2.581
Final loss ~2.48
Precision fp32 master weights + AMP fp16

What is this model?

This is a base model — not an instruction-tuned or chat model. It is intended as a domain-adapted foundation for further fine-tuning on medical instruction datasets.

All 494M parameters were updated during training (no LoRA, no frozen layers). The model has been adapted toward biomedical vocabulary, PubMed abstract structure, and medical terminology through full-parameter CLM training.

Intended Use

  • Base model for downstream medical SFT
  • Research into biomedical domain adaptation
  • Starting point for medical reasoning models

Not Intended For

  • Direct conversational use (no instruction tuning)
  • Clinical decision making
  • Patient-facing applications

Next Step

This model will be fine-tuned on a mixed instruction dataset (UltraChat + ReasonMed) to produce a conversational medical assistant.

Author

Rumi Iqbal Sufi
Graduate Trainee, Excelra Knowledge Solutions, Hyderabad
HuggingFace: Rumiii
GitHub: sufirumii
arXiv: 2506.09513

Description
Model synced from source: Rumiii/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Med-Pre-Trained-92k
Readme 27 KiB
Languages
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