RedHatAI/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
Summary
Red Hat AI released an NVFP4-quantized 35B MoE version of Qwen3.6 that retains 96.28% GSM8K accuracy while enabling 4-bit inference via vLLM.
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RedHatAI/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 · Hugging Face
Source: https://huggingface.co/RedHatAI/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 This is a preliminary version (and subject to change) of NVFP4 quantizedQwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3Bmodel. The model has both weights and activations quantized to NVFP4 format withvllm-project/llm-compressor.
It is compatible and tested against vllm main. Deploy it with:vllm serve RedHatAI/Qwen3\.6\-35B\-A3B\-NVFP4 \-\-reasoning\-parser qwen3 \-\-moe\_backend flashinfer\_cutlass
https://huggingface.co/RedHatAI/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4#creation-scriptCreation Script:
Run this script with LLM Compressor main and latest transformers.
import torch
from compressed_tensors.utils import save_mtp_tensors_to_checkpoint
from datasets import load_dataset
from transformers import AutoProcessor, Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration
from llmcompressor import oneshot
from llmcompressor.modifiers.quantization import QuantizationModifier
# NOTE: This example requires transformers >= v5
MODEL_ID = "Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B"
# Load model.
model = Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(MODEL_ID, dtype="auto")
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(MODEL_ID)
# No need to include mtp layers as they are not loaded
# through Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration
recipe = QuantizationModifier(
targets="Linear",
scheme="NVFP4",
ignore=[
"re:.*lm_head",
"re:visual.*",
"re:model.visual.*",
"re:.*mlp.gate$",
"re:.*embed_tokens$",
"re:.*shared_expert_gate$",
"re:.*linear_attn.*",
],
)
NUM_CALIBRATION_SAMPLES = 256
MAX_SEQUENCE_LENGTH = 4096
ds = load_dataset(
"HuggingFaceH4/ultrachat_200k",
split=f"train_sft[:{NUM_CALIBRATION_SAMPLES}]",
)
ds = ds.select_columns(["messages"])
ds = ds.shuffle(seed=42)
def preprocess_function(example):
messages = [
{"role": m["role"], "content": [{"type": "text", "text": m["content"]}]}
for m in example["messages"]
]
return processor.apply_chat_template(
messages,
tokenize=True,
return_dict=True,
add_generation_prompt=False,
processor_kwargs={
"return_tensors": "pt",
"padding": False,
"truncation": True,
"max_length": MAX_SEQUENCE_LENGTH,
"add_special_tokens": False,
},
)
ds = ds.map(preprocess_function, batched=False, remove_columns=ds.column_names)
def data_collator(batch):
assert len(batch) == 1
return {key: torch.tensor(value) for key, value in batch[0].items()}
# Apply quantization.
oneshot(
model=model,
recipe=recipe,
dataset=ds,
max_seq_length=MAX_SEQUENCE_LENGTH,
num_calibration_samples=NUM_CALIBRATION_SAMPLES,
moe_calibrate_all_experts=True,
data_collator=data_collator,
)
# Save to disk in compressed-tensors format.
SAVE_DIR = MODEL_ID.rstrip("/").split("/")[-1] + "-NVFP4"
model.save_pretrained(SAVE_DIR)
processor.save_pretrained(SAVE_DIR)
# MTP layers are excluded from the model through Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration
# Save them as-is from the original checkpoint into the quantized output.
save_mtp_tensors_to_checkpoint(source_model=MODEL_ID, dest_dir=SAVE_DIR)
https://huggingface.co/RedHatAI/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4#preliminary-evaluationsPreliminary Evaluations
- GSM8K Platinum:
lm_eval --model local-chat-completions \
--tasks gsm8k_platinum_cot_llama \
--model_args "model=RedHatAI/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4,max_length=262144,base_url=http://0.0.0.0:8000/v1/chat/completions,num_concurrent=128,max_retries=3,tokenized_requests=False,tokenizer_backend=None,timeout=1200" \
--num_fewshot 0 \
--apply_chat_template \
--gen_kwargs "do_sample=True,temperature=1.0,top_p=0.95,top_k=20,min_p=0.0,max_gen_toks=64000,presence_penalty=1.5,repetition_penalty=1.0,seed=5678"
Recovery:
Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3BRedHatAI/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 (this model)Accuracy95.6296.28Recovery-100.69% Note: More rigorous evaluations are currently in progress and will be available soon.
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