Model Details
This model is an MXFP8 (W8A8, group_size 32) model of Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B generated by intel/auto-round using RTN. Please follow the license of the original model.
- Quantized (MXFP8): routed experts
- Kept in BF16: attention, linear attention, shared experts, router/gate, embeddings, lm_head, vision tower, MTP
How to Use
Environment
uv pip install vllm==0.31.0
vLLM Usage
vllm serve intel-ai/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-MXFP8-CT-AutoRound \ --tokenizer Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B \ --dtype bfloat16
Evaluation
Table with columns: Benchmark, BF16, MXFP8, Recovery| Benchmark | BF16 | MXFP8 | Recovery |
|---|
| PIQA | 82.37 | 82.21 | 99.80% |
| HellaSwag | 63.49 | 63.31 | 99.72% |
| MMLU | 83.66 | 83.82 | 100.20% |
| GSM8K | 95.68 | 95.22 | 99.52% |
| Average | 81.30 | 81.14 | 99.81% |
Generate the Model
uv pip install git+https://github.com/intel/auto-round.git@22d6e28c0133f3120fa9f5650d990bb65153fe5f
auto-round \ --model_name Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B \ --scheme MXFP8 \ --algorithm rtn \ --iters 0 \ --ignore_layers lm_head,embed_tokens,visual,linear_attn,shared_expert,self_attn,mtp,mlp.gate \ --format llm_compressor \ --output_dir Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-MXFP8-CT-AutoRound \ --disable_low_cpu_mem_usage
Ethical Considerations and Limitations
The model can produce factually incorrect output, and should not be relied on to produce factually accurate information. Because of the limitations of the pretrained model and the finetuning datasets, it is possible that this model could generate lewd, biased or otherwise offensive outputs.
Therefore, before deploying any applications of the model, developers should perform safety testing.
Caveats and Recommendations
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Disclaimer
The license on this model does not constitute legal advice. We are not responsible for the actions of third parties who use this model. Please consult an attorney before using this model for commercial purposes.
Cite
@article{cheng2023optimize, title={Optimize weight rounding via signed gradient descent for the quantization of llms}, author={Cheng, Wenhua and Zhang, Weiwei and Shen, Haihao and Cai, Yiyang and He, Xin and Lv, Kaokao and Liu, Yi}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.05516}, year={2023}}
arxiv github
Signed-off-by: Sun, Xuehao xuehao.sun@intel.com