Qwen3.5-9B-FP8-dynamic

Model Overview

• Model Architecture: Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B
  • Input: Text / Image
  • Output: Text
• Model Optimizations:
  • Weight quantization: FP8
  • Activation quantization: FP8
  • Model size: 14.0 GB (reduced from 19.3 GB in BF16)
• Release Date: 2026-05-11
• Version: 1.0
• Model Developers: RedHatAI

This model is a quantized version of Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B. Evaluation results and reproduction steps are provided below.

Model Optimizations

This model was obtained by quantizing the weights and activations of Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B to FP8 data type, ready for inference with vLLM.

This optimization reduces the model weights from 19.3 GB to 14.0 GB on disk (~27% reduction). Activations are quantized dynamically at inference time using per-tensor scaling, requiring no calibration data.

Only the weights and activations of the linear operators within transformer blocks are quantized using LLM Compressor.

Deployment

Use with vLLM

1. Initialize vLLM server:

Multimodal (vision + text):

vllm serve RedHatAI/Qwen3.5-9B-FP8-dynamic \
  --reasoning-parser qwen3 \
  --max-model-len 262144

Text-only (lower memory):

vllm serve RedHatAI/Qwen3.5-9B-FP8-dynamic \
  --reasoning-parser qwen3 \
  --max-model-len 262144 \
  --language-model-only

2. Send requests to the server:

from openai import OpenAI

openai_api_key = "EMPTY"
openai_api_base = "http://localhost:8000/v1"

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=openai_api_key,
    base_url=openai_api_base,
)

model = "RedHatAI/Qwen3.5-9B-FP8-dynamic"

messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum mechanics clearly and concisely."},
]

outputs = client.chat.completions.create(
    model=model,
    messages=messages,
)

generated_text = outputs.choices[0].message.content
print(generated_text)

Creation

This model was created by applying LLM Compressor using data-free FP8 dynamic quantization, as presented in the code snippet below.

from compressed_tensors.utils import save_mtp_tensors_to_checkpoint
from llmcompressor import oneshot
from llmcompressor.modifiers.quantization import QuantizationModifier
from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoTokenizer, Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration

MODEL_ID = "Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B"

IGNORE_LAYERS = [
    "re:.*lm_head",
    "re:.*embed_tokens$",
    "re:.*visual.*",
    "re:.*model.visual.*",
    "re:.*linear_attn.*",
]

model = Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(MODEL_ID, dtype="auto")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(MODEL_ID)
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(MODEL_ID)

recipe = QuantizationModifier(
    targets="Linear",
    scheme="FP8_DYNAMIC",
    ignore=IGNORE_LAYERS,
)

oneshot(model=model, recipe=recipe)

model.save_pretrained("Qwen3.5-9B-FP8-dynamic", save_compressed=True)
processor.save_pretrained("Qwen3.5-9B-FP8-dynamic")
save_mtp_tensors_to_checkpoint(source_model=MODEL_ID, dest_dir="Qwen3.5-9B-FP8-dynamic")

• llm-compressor==0.10.1.dev44+g437f8afe
• compressed-tensors==0.14.1a20260325
• transformers==5.3.0
• vllm==0.18.1
• lm-eval — neuralmagic/lm-evaluation-harness@741f1d8 (branch: mmlu-pro-chat-variant)
• lighteval — neuralmagic/lighteval@6f0f351 (branch: eldar-fix-litellm)

Evaluation

This model was evaluated on GSM8k-Platinum, MMLU-Pro, IFEval, Math 500, AIME 2025, and GPQA Diamond using lm-evaluation-harness and lighteval, with inference served via vLLM.

Accuracy

Reproduction

The results were obtained using the following commands. GSM8k-Platinum, MMLU-Pro, IFEval, Math 500, and GPQA Diamond were each run 3 times with different seeds and results averaged. AIME 2025 was run 8 times. The vLLM server was started with --language-model-only for all evaluations.

GSM8k-Platinum (lm-eval, 0-shot, 3 repetitions)

lm_eval --model local-chat-completions \
  --tasks gsm8k_platinum_cot_llama \
  --model_args "model=RedHatAI/Qwen3.5-9B-FP8-dynamic,max_length=96000,base_url=http://0.0.0.0:8000/v1/chat/completions,num_concurrent=100,max_retries=3,tokenized_requests=False,tokenizer_backend=None,timeout=3600" \
  --num_fewshot 0 \
  --apply_chat_template \
  --output_path results_gsm8k_platinum.json \
  --seed <SEED> \
  --gen_kwargs "do_sample=True,temperature=1.0,top_p=0.95,top_k=20,min_p=0.0,presence_penalty=1.5,repetition_penalty=1.0,max_gen_toks=65536,seed=<SEED>"

Seeds used: 42, 1234, 4158

MMLU-Pro (lm-eval, 0-shot, 3 repetitions)

lm_eval --model local-chat-completions \
  --tasks mmlu_pro_chat \
  --model_args "model=RedHatAI/Qwen3.5-9B-FP8-dynamic,max_length=96000,base_url=http://0.0.0.0:8000/v1/chat/completions,num_concurrent=100,max_retries=3,tokenized_requests=False,tokenizer_backend=None,timeout=3600" \
  --num_fewshot 0 \
  --apply_chat_template \
  --output_path results_mmlu_pro.json \
  --seed <SEED> \
  --gen_kwargs "do_sample=True,temperature=1.0,top_p=0.95,top_k=20,min_p=0.0,presence_penalty=1.5,repetition_penalty=1.0,max_gen_toks=65536,seed=<SEED>"

Seeds used: 42, 1234, 4158

IFEval (lm-eval, 0-shot, 3 repetitions)

lm_eval --model local-chat-completions \
  --tasks ifeval \
  --model_args "model=RedHatAI/Qwen3.5-9B-FP8-dynamic,max_length=96000,base_url=http://0.0.0.0:8000/v1/chat/completions,num_concurrent=100,max_retries=3,tokenized_requests=False,tokenizer_backend=None,timeout=3600" \
  --num_fewshot 0 \
  --apply_chat_template \
  --output_path results_ifeval.json \
  --seed <SEED> \
  --gen_kwargs "do_sample=True,temperature=1.0,top_p=0.95,top_k=20,min_p=0.0,presence_penalty=1.5,repetition_penalty=1.0,max_gen_toks=65536,seed=<SEED>"

Seeds used: 42, 1234, 4158

Math 500 (lighteval, 0-shot, 3 repetitions)

lighteval endpoint litellm \
  "model_name=hosted_vllm/RedHatAI/Qwen3.5-9B-FP8-dynamic,provider=hosted_vllm,base_url=http://0.0.0.0:8000/v1,timeout=3600,concurrent_requests=100,generation_parameters={temperature:1.0,max_new_tokens:65536,top_p:0.95,top_k:20,min_p:0.0,presence_penalty:1.5,repetition_penalty:1.0,seed:<SEED>}" \
  "math_500@k=1@n=1|0" \
  --output-dir results_math500 \
  --save-details

Seeds used: 42, 1234, 4158

AIME 2025 (lighteval, 0-shot, 8 repetitions)

lighteval endpoint litellm \
  "model_name=hosted_vllm/RedHatAI/Qwen3.5-9B-FP8-dynamic,provider=hosted_vllm,base_url=http://0.0.0.0:8000/v1,timeout=3600,concurrent_requests=100,generation_parameters={temperature:1.0,max_new_tokens:65536,top_p:0.95,top_k:20,min_p:0.0,presence_penalty:1.5,repetition_penalty:1.0,seed:<SEED>}" \
  "aime25@k=1@n=1|0" \
  --output-dir results_aime25 \
  --save-details

Seeds used: 42, 1234, 1356, 3344, 4158, 5322, 5678, 9843

GPQA Diamond (lighteval, 0-shot, 3 repetitions)

lighteval endpoint litellm \
  "model_name=hosted_vllm/RedHatAI/Qwen3.5-9B-FP8-dynamic,provider=hosted_vllm,base_url=http://0.0.0.0:8000/v1,timeout=3600,concurrent_requests=100,generation_parameters={temperature:1.0,max_new_tokens:65536,top_p:0.95,top_k:20,min_p:0.0,presence_penalty:1.5,repetition_penalty:1.0,seed:<SEED>}" \
  "gpqa:diamond@k=1@n=1|0" \
  --output-dir results_gpqa_diamond \
  --save-details

Seeds used: 42, 1234, 4158