Model Overview

Description:

The NVIDIA Qwen3-235B-A22B Eagle model is the Eagle head of the Alibaba’s Qwen3-235B-A22B model, which is an auto-regressive language model that uses a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 32 billion activated parameters and 1 trillion total parameters. For more information, please check here. The NVIDIA Qwen3-235B-A22B Eagle3 model incorporates Eagle speculative decoding with TensorRT Model Optimizer.

This model is ready for commercial/non-commercial use.

License/Terms of Use:

nvidia-open-model-license Apache License 2.0

Deployment Geography:

Global

Use Case:

Developers designing AI Agent systems, chatbots, RAG systems, and other AI-powered applications. Also suitable for typical instruction-following tasks.

Release Date:

Huggingface: Aug 6th, 2025 via [https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Eagle3]

Model Architecture:

Architecture Type: Transformers Network Architecture: Qwen3-235B-A22B

Input:

Input Type(s): Text Input Format(s): String Input Parameters: One Dimensional (1D): Sequences

Output:

Output Type(s): Text Output Format: String Output Parameters: One-Dimensional (1D): Sequences

Our AI models are designed and/or optimized to run on NVIDIA GPU-accelerated systems. By leveraging NVIDIA’s hardware (e.g. GPU cores) and software frameworks (e.g., CUDA libraries), the model achieves faster training and inference times compared to CPU-only solutions.

Software Integration:

Supported Runtime Engine(s):

• TensorRT-LLM

Supported Hardware Microarchitecture Compatibility:

• NVIDIA Blackwell

Preferred Operating System(s):

• Linux

Model Version(s):

** The model is quantized with nvidia-modelopt v0.35.0

Training and Evaluation Datasets:

** The total size (in number of data points) 503.3K ** Total number of datasets 2
** Dataset partition: Training 100%

Training Dataset:

Link: ultrachat_200k and Magpie-Llama-3.1-Pro-300K-Filtered, only prompts from the datasets were used for data synthesis, (the original responses from GPT were not used) for data synthesis, which is then used to train the Eagle modules. Click the links above for more information regarding the dataset.

** Data Collection Method by dataset

• Hybrid: Synthetic, Human, Automated

** Labeling Method by dataset

• Hybrid: Synthetic, Human, Automated Properties: 500K samples, majority synthetic, others sourced from commercially-friendly datasets.

Evaluation Dataset:

Link: MTBench, for more details, see here

** Data Collection Method by dataset

• Hybrid: Human, Synthetic

** Labeling Method by dataset

• Hybrid: Human, Synthetic

Properties: 3,300 multi-turn dialogue sequences, each annotated with expert preference votes.

Inference:

Engine: TensorRT-LLM 1.1.0rc1 Test Hardware: B200

Eagle Speculative Decoding

Synthesized data was obtained from Alibaba's Qwen3-235B-A22B model, which is then used to finetune the Eagle modules. This model is ready for inference with TensorRT-LLM in Eagle speculative decoding mode. Eagle modules are used to predict candidate tokens beyond the next token. In the generation step, each forward Eagle module generates a distribution of tokens beyond the previous. Then, a tree-based attention mechanism samples some candidate sequences for the original model to validate. The longest accepted candidate sequence is selected so that more than 1 token is returned in the generation step. The number of tokens generated in each step is called acceptance rate.

Usage

To serve the checkpoint with TensorRT-LLM, follow the sample commands below with the TensorRT-LLM GitHub repo:

trtllm-serve <Qwen3-235B-A22B checkpoint> --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000 --backend pytorch --max_batch_size 32 --max_num_tokens 8192 --max_seq_len 8192 --tp_size 8 --extra_llm_api_options extra-llm-api-config.yml

extra-llm-api-config.yml is like this

enable_attention_dp: false
disable_overlap_scheduler: true
enable_autotuner: false

cuda_graph_config:
    max_batch_size: 1

speculative_config:
    decoding_type: Eagle
    max_draft_len: 3
    speculative_model_dir: <eagle3 checkpoint>

kv_cache_config:
    enable_block_reuse: false

Evaluation

The Eagle acceptance rate benchmark results (MT-Bench) with draft length 3 are presented in the table below:

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