What we changed vs. Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B
AgentWorld ships text-only weights (693 tensors, all model.language_model.* + lm_head)
even though its config already declares a vision_config, image/video token ids, and a
vision+tool-capable chat template — it is effectively a Qwen3.5-VL waiting for a vision encoder.
We:
- Extracted the 333
model.visual.* tensors (27-layer ViT + patch/position embeds +
merger/projector) from Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (BF16).
- Added them to the AgentWorld checkpoint without touching a single text tensor — so the
agent / tool-calling skills are byte-for-byte preserved.
- Removed the
language_model_only flag from the config so the runner instantiates the tower.
Result: 1026 tensors (693 text + 333 vision), architecture
Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration, projector maps vision hidden 1152 → text hidden 2048.
Serving (vLLM ≥ 0.23)
vllm serve havok2/Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B-VL36 \
--tensor-parallel-size 4 \
--reasoning-parser qwen3 \
--limit-mm-per-prompt '{"image": 4, "video": 1}'
# IMPORTANT: do NOT pass --language-model-only — that disables the vision tower.
Loads as a standard Qwen3.5-MoE VLM. ~70 GB BF16; fits on 4×24 GB with --tensor-parallel-size 4.
Capabilities & limitations
- ✅ Agentic text + tool-calling — identical to AgentWorld (weights untouched).
- ✅ Image / video input — works; smoke-tested on synthetic images (shapes, colors, OCR).
- ⚠️ Vision quality is not benchmarked; cross-generation graft, may differ from a natively co-trained VLM.
- ⚠️ No additional safety tuning or evaluation beyond basic smoke tests.
Reproduce it yourself (no 70 GB download needed)
Rebuild locally from the two source models with the included
build_merged_vl36.py. It downloads the AgentWorld backbone and
only the Qwen3.6 shards that contain the vision tensors, then performs the graft:
pip install huggingface_hub safetensors torch
python build_merged_vl36.py # -> ./Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B-VL36
Attribution & license
This derivative is released under Apache-2.0. Modification: vision-tower graft as described
above (no training). See LICENSE. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Alibaba / the Qwen team.