Model Overview
- Model Architecture: Qwen3ForCausalLM
- Model Optimizations:
- Activation quantization: FP8
- Weight quantization: FP8
- Intended Use Cases:
- Reasoning.
- Function calling.
- Subject matter experts via fine-tuning.
- Multilingual instruction following.
- Translation.
- Out-of-scope: Use in any manner that violates applicable laws or regulations (including trade compliance laws).
- Release Date: 05/02/2025
- Version: 1.0
- Model Developers: RedHat (Neural Magic)
Model Optimizations
This model was obtained by quantizing activations and weights of Qwen3-32B to FP8 data type.
This optimization reduces the number of bits used to represent weights and activations from 16 to 8, reducing GPU memory requirements (by approximately 50%) and increasing matrix-multiply compute throughput (by approximately 2x).
Weight quantization also reduces disk size requirements by approximately 50%.
Only weights and activations of the linear operators within transformers blocks are quantized.
Weights are quantized with a symmetric static per-channel scheme, whereas activations are quantized with a symmetric dynamic per-token scheme.
The llm-compressor library is used for quantization.
Deployment
This model can be deployed efficiently using the vLLM backend, as shown in the example below.
from vllm import LLM, SamplingParamsfrom transformers import AutoTokenizer model_id = "RedHatAI/Qwen3-32B-FP8-dynamic"number_gpus = 1sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.6, top_p=0.95, top_k=20, min_p=0, max_tokens=256) messages = [ {"role": "user", "content": prompt}] tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id) messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "Give me a short introduction to large language model."}] prompts = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=False) llm = LLM(model=model_id, tensor_parallel_size=number_gpus) outputs = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params) generated_text = outputs[0].outputs[0].textprint(generated_text)
vLLM aslo supports OpenAI-compatible serving. See the documentation for more details.
Creation
from llmcompressor.modifiers.quantization import QuantizationModifierfrom llmcompressor.transformers import oneshotfrom transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer # Load modelmodel_stub = "Qwen/Qwen3-32B"model_name = model_stub.split("/")[-1] model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_stub) tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_stub) # Configure the quantization algorithm and schemerecipe = QuantizationModifier( ignore=["lm_head"], targets="Linear", scheme="FP8_dynamic",) # Apply quantizationoneshot( model=model, recipe=recipe,) # Save to disk in compressed-tensors formatsave_path = model_name + "-FP8-dynamic"model.save_pretrained(save_path)tokenizer.save_pretrained(save_path)print(f"Model and tokenizer saved to: {save_path}")
Evaluation
The model was evaluated on the OpenLLM leaderboard tasks (versions 1 and 2), using lm-evaluation-harness, and on reasoning tasks using lighteval.
vLLM was used for all evaluations.
lm-evaluation-harness
lm_eval \ --model vllm \ --model_args pretrained="RedHatAI/Qwen3-32B-FP8-dynamic",dtype=auto,gpu_memory_utilization=0.5,max_model_len=8192,enable_chunk_prefill=True,tensor_parallel_size=2 \ --tasks openllm \ --apply_chat_template\ --fewshot_as_multiturn \ --batch_size auto
lm_eval \ --model vllm \ --model_args pretrained="RedHatAI/Qwen3-32B-FP8-dynamic",dtype=auto,gpu_memory_utilization=0.5,max_model_len=8192,enable_chunk_prefill=True,tensor_parallel_size=2 \ --tasks mgsm \ --apply_chat_template\ --batch_size auto
lm_eval \ --model vllm \ --model_args pretrained="RedHatAI/Qwen3-32B-FP8-dynamic",dtype=auto,gpu_memory_utilization=0.5,max_model_len=16384,enable_chunk_prefill=True,tensor_parallel_size=2 \ --tasks leaderboard \ --apply_chat_template\ --fewshot_as_multiturn \ --batch_size auto
lighteval
lighteval_model_arguments.yaml
model_parameters: model_name: RedHatAI/Qwen3-32B-FP8-dynamic dtype: auto gpu_memory_utilization: 0.9 tensor_parallel_size: 2 max_model_length: 40960 generation_parameters: temperature: 0.6 top_k: 20 min_p: 0.0 top_p: 0.95 max_new_tokens: 32768
lighteval vllm \ --model_args lighteval_model_arguments.yaml \ --tasks lighteval|aime24|0|0 \ --use_chat_template = true
lighteval vllm \ --model_args lighteval_model_arguments.yaml \ --tasks lighteval|aime25|0|0 \ --use_chat_template = true
lighteval vllm \ --model_args lighteval_model_arguments.yaml \ --tasks lighteval|math_500|0|0 \ --use_chat_template = true
lighteval vllm \ --model_args lighteval_model_arguments.yaml \ --tasks lighteval|gpqa:diamond|0|0 \ --use_chat_template = true
lighteval vllm \ --model_args lighteval_model_arguments.yaml \ --tasks extended|lcb:codegeneration \ --use_chat_template = true
Accuracy