Qwen3-30B-A3B-Base
Qwen3 Highlights
Qwen3 is the latest generation of large language models in Qwen series, offering a comprehensive suite of dense and mixture-of-experts (MoE) models. Building upon extensive advancements in training data, model architecture, and optimization techniques, Qwen3 delivers the following key improvements over the previously released Qwen2.5:
- Expanded Higher-Quality Pre-training Corpus: Qwen3 is pre-trained on 36 trillion tokens across 119 languages — tripling the language coverage of Qwen2.5 — with a much richer mix of high-quality data, including coding, STEM, reasoning, book, multilingual, and synthetic data.
- Training Techniques and Model Architecture: Qwen3 incorporates a series of training techiques and architectural refinements, including global-batch load balancing loss for MoE models and qk layernorm for all models, leading to improved stability and overall performance.
- Three-stage Pre-training: Stage 1 focuses on broad language modeling and general knowledge acquisition, Stage 2 improves reasoning skills like STEM, coding, and logical reasoning, and Stage 3 enhances long-context comprehension by extending training sequence lengths up to 32k tokens.
- Scaling Law Guided Hyperparameter Tuning: Through comprehensive scaling law studies across the three-stage pre-training pipeline, Qwen3 systematically tunes critical hyperparameters — such as learning rate scheduler and batch size — separately for dense and MoE models, resulting in better training dynamics and final performance across different model scales.
Model Overview
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Base has the following features:
- Type: Causal Language Models
- Training Stage: Pretraining
- Number of Parameters: 30.5B in total and 3.3B activated
- Number of Paramaters (Non-Embedding): 29.9B
- Number of Layers: 48
- Number of Attention Heads (GQA): 32 for Q and 4 for KV
- Number of Experts: 128
- Number of Activated Experts: 8
- Context Length: 32,768
For more details, including benchmark evaluation, hardware requirements, and inference performance, please refer to our blog, GitHub, and Documentation.
Requirements
The code of Qwen3-MoE has been in the latest Hugging Face transformers and we advise you to use the latest version of transformers.
With transformers<4.51.0, you will encounter the following error:
KeyError: 'qwen3_moe'
Evaluation & Performance
Detailed evaluation results are reported in this 📑 blog.
Citation
If you find our work helpful, feel free to give us a cite.
@misc{qwen3,
title = {Qwen3},
url = {https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen3/},
author = {Qwen Team},
month = {April},
year = {2025}
}