🌟 Qwen3.6-35B-A3B NVFP4 Quantization by NeuralNet 🧠🤖
This is an NVFP4-quantized version of Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, optimized for deployment on NVIDIA Blackwell architecture GPUs using vLLM.
[!IMPORTANT]
NVFP4 quantization requires NVIDIA Blackwell architecture (GB200, RTX 5000 series, etc.). This format is not compatible with Ampere, Ada Lovelace, or Hopper GPUs. If you are running on an older GPU, please use a different quantization format.
Original model: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
Quantization Details
This model was quantized to NVFP4 (4-bit NVIDIA Floating Point) using vLLM's built-in quantization pipeline. NVFP4 leverages native FP4 Tensor Core support introduced in Blackwell GPUs, delivering significant memory savings and throughput improvements with minimal quality degradation compared to BF16.
vllm quantize \
--model Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B \
--quantization nvfp4 \
--output-dir NeuralNet-Hub/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
⚡ Deployment with vLLM
This quantized model is intended to be served using vLLM (vllm>=0.9.0 recommended).
Quick Start
vllm serve NeuralNet-Hub/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 \
--quantization nvfp4 \
--dtype bfloat16 \
--kv-cache-dtype fp8 \
--max-model-len 262144 \
--reasoning-parser qwen3 \
--enable-auto-tool-choice \
--tool-call-parser qwen3_coder
Using a Config File
model: NeuralNet-Hub/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
dtype: bfloat16
kv-cache-dtype: fp8
gpu-memory-utilization: 0.95
max-model-len: 262144
max-num-batched-tokens: 4096
max-num-seqs: 200
max-cudagraph-capture-size: 209
enable-prefix-caching: true
trust-remote-code: true
reasoning-parser: qwen3
enable-auto-tool-choice: true
tool-call-parser: qwen3_coder
default-chat-template-kwargs: '{"enable_thinking": false}'
download-dir: /workspace/models
host: 0.0.0.0
port: 18000
vllm serve --config config.yaml
💬 Chat API Usage
Qwen3.6 uses a standard chat template compatible with OpenAI-format APIs. Thinking mode is enabled by default.
Thinking Mode (Default)
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="http://localhost:18000/v1", api_key="EMPTY")
messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "Your message here"}]
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="NeuralNet-Hub/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4",
messages=messages,
max_tokens=32768,
temperature=1.0,
top_p=0.95,
extra_body={"top_k": 20},
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)
Non-Thinking (Instruct) Mode
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="NeuralNet-Hub/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4",
messages=messages,
max_tokens=8192,
temperature=0.7,
top_p=0.8,
presence_penalty=1.5,
extra_body={
"top_k": 20,
"chat_template_kwargs": {"enable_thinking": False},
},
)
messages = [
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": "https://example.com/image.jpg"}},
{"type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in detail."}
]
}
]
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="NeuralNet-Hub/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4",
messages=messages,
max_tokens=32768,
temperature=1.0,
top_p=0.95,
extra_body={"top_k": 20},
)
⚙️ Recommended Sampling Parameters
Table with columns: Mode, temperature, top_p, top_k, presence_penalty| Mode | temperature | top_p | top_k | presence_penalty |
|---|
| Thinking — general tasks | 1.0 | 0.95 | 20 | 0.0 |
| Thinking — precise coding | 0.6 | 0.95 | 20 | 0.0 |
| Instruct (non-thinking) | 0.7 | 0.80 | 20 | 1.5 |
📥 Download with huggingface-cli
Install the CLI
pip install -U "huggingface_hub[cli]"
Download the Full Repository
huggingface-cli download NeuralNet-Hub/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 --local-dir ./Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
Download Specific Files
huggingface-cli download NeuralNet-Hub/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 \
--include "*.safetensors" \
--local-dir ./Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
🔧 Hardware Requirements
Table with columns: Component, Requirement| Component | Requirement |
|---|
| GPU Architecture | NVIDIA Blackwell (sm_100+) |
| VRAM | 24 GB+ recommended |
| CUDA | 12.8+ |
| vLLM | 0.9.0+ |
[!WARNING]
NVFP4 is exclusively supported on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs. Attempting to run this model on Ampere (A100), Ada Lovelace (RTX 4000), or Hopper (H100) will fail. For those architectures, use the original BF16 model or an AWQ/GPTQ quantized variant.
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