diff --git a/examples/llava/README.md b/examples/llava/README.md
index f58d9de710..cd71116c18 100644
--- a/examples/llava/README.md
+++ b/examples/llava/README.md
@@ -34,6 +34,16 @@ llama-mtmd-cli -hf ggml-org/SmolVLM2-500M-Video-Instruct-GGUF
 
 # Pixtral 12B
 llama-mtmd-cli -hf ggml-org/pixtral-12b-GGUF
+
+# Qwen 2 VL
+llama-mtmd-cli -hf ggml-org/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct
+llama-mtmd-cli -hf ggml-org/Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct
+
+# Qwen 2.5 VL
+llama-mtmd-cli -hf ggml-org/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct
+llama-mtmd-cli -hf ggml-org/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct
+llama-mtmd-cli -hf ggml-org/Qwen2.5-VL-32B-Instruct
+llama-mtmd-cli -hf ggml-org/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct
 ```
 
 ## How it works and what is `mmproj`?
diff --git a/examples/llava/tests.sh b/examples/llava/tests.sh
index 75604315cf..5030a0bead 100755
--- a/examples/llava/tests.sh
+++ b/examples/llava/tests.sh
@@ -36,12 +36,6 @@ add_test() {
     arr_tmpl+=("$tmpl")
 }
 
-add_test_big() {
-    if [ "$RUN_BIG_TESTS" = true ]; then
-        add_test "$@"
-    fi
-}
-
 add_test "llama-mtmd-cli"  "ggml-org/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0"
 add_test "llama-mtmd-cli"  "ggml-org/SmolVLM2-2.2B-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M"
 add_test "llama-mtmd-cli"  "ggml-org/SmolVLM2-500M-Video-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0"
@@ -58,7 +52,15 @@ add_test "llama-mtmd-cli"  "bartowski/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M"
 add_test "llama-mtmd-cli"  "ggml-org/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M"
 
 # to test the big models, run: ./tests.sh big
-add_test_big "llama-mtmd-cli" "ggml-org/pixtral-12b-GGUF:Q4_K_M"
+if [ "$RUN_BIG_TESTS" = true ]; then
+    add_test "llama-mtmd-cli" "ggml-org/pixtral-12b-GGUF:Q4_K_M"
+    add_test "llama-mtmd-cli" "ggml-org/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct:Q4_K_M"
+    add_test "llama-mtmd-cli" "ggml-org/Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct:Q4_K_M"
+    add_test "llama-mtmd-cli" "ggml-org/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct:Q4_K_M"
+    add_test "llama-mtmd-cli" "ggml-org/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct:Q4_K_M"
+    add_test "llama-mtmd-cli" "ggml-org/Qwen2.5-VL-32B-Instruct:Q4_K_M"
+    # add_test "llama-mtmd-cli" "ggml-org/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct:Q4_K_M" # too big
+fi
 
 # these models always give the wrong answer, not sure why
 # add_test "llama-mtmd-cli"  "ggml-org/SmolVLM-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M"