Qwen3-8B-quantized.w4a16

Model Overview

• Model Architecture: Qwen3ForCausalLM
  • Input: Text
  • Output: Text
• Model Optimizations:
  • Weight quantization: INT4
• Intended Use Cases:
  • Reasoning.
  • Function calling.
  • Subject matter experts via fine-tuning.
  • Multilingual instruction following.
  • Translation.
• Out-of-scope: Use in any manner that violates applicable laws or regulations (including trade compliance laws).
• Release Date: 05/05/2025
• Version: 1.0
• Model Developers: RedHat (Neural Magic)

Model Optimizations

This model was obtained by quantizing the weights of Qwen3-8B to INT4 data type. This optimization reduces the number of bits per parameter from 16 to 4, reducing the disk size and GPU memory requirements by approximately 75%.

Only the weights of the linear operators within transformers blocks are quantized. Weights are quantized using a asymmetric per-group scheme, with group size 64. The GPTQ algorithm is applied for quantization, as implemented in the llm-compressor library.

Deployment

This model can be deployed efficiently using the vLLM backend, as shown in the example below.

from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
from transformers import AutoTokenizer

model_id = "RedHatAI/Qwen3-8B-quantized.w4a16"
number_gpus = 1
sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.6, top_p=0.95, top_k=20, min_p=0, max_tokens=256)

messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": prompt}
]

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)

messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "Give me a short introduction to large language model."}]

prompts = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=False)

llm = LLM(model=model_id, tensor_parallel_size=number_gpus)

outputs = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params)

generated_text = outputs[0].outputs[0].text
print(generated_text)

vLLM aslo supports OpenAI-compatible serving. See the documentation for more details.

Creation

Creation details

This model was created with [llm-compressor](https://github.com/vllm-project/llm-compressor) by running the code snippet below.

from llmcompressor.modifiers.quantization import GPTQModifier
from llmcompressor.transformers import oneshot
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
  
# Load model
model_stub = "Qwen/Qwen3-8B"
model_name = model_stub.split("/")[-1]

num_samples = 1024
max_seq_len = 8192

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_stub)

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_stub)

def preprocess_fn(example):
    return {"text": tokenizer.apply_chat_template(example["messages"], add_generation_prompt=False, tokenize=False)}
  
ds = load_dataset("neuralmagic/LLM_compression_calibration", split="train")
ds = ds.map(preprocess_fn)

# Configure the quantization algorithm and scheme
recipe = GPTQModifier(
    ignore=["lm_head"],
    sequential_targets=["Qwen3DecoderLayer"],
    targets="Linear",
    dampening_frac=0.01,
    scheme="W4A16",
  )

  # Apply quantization
  oneshot(
      model=model,
      dataset=ds, 
      recipe=recipe,
      max_seq_length=max_seq_len,
      num_calibration_samples=num_samples,
  )
  
  # Save to disk in compressed-tensors format
  save_path = model_name + "-quantized.w4a16"
  model.save_pretrained(save_path)
  tokenizer.save_pretrained(save_path)
  print(f"Model and tokenizer saved to: {save_path}")

Evaluation

The model was evaluated on the OpenLLM leaderboard tasks (versions 1 and 2), using lm-evaluation-harness, and on reasoning tasks using lighteval. vLLM was used for all evaluations.

Evaluation details

lm-evaluation-harness

lm_eval \
  --model vllm \
  --model_args pretrained="RedHatAI/Qwen3-8B-quantized.w4a16",dtype=auto,gpu_memory_utilization=0.5,max_model_len=8192,enable_chunk_prefill=True,tensor_parallel_size=1 \
  --tasks openllm \
  --apply_chat_template\
  --fewshot_as_multiturn \
  --batch_size auto

lm_eval \
  --model vllm \
  --model_args pretrained="RedHatAI/Qwen3-8B-quantized.w4a16",dtype=auto,gpu_memory_utilization=0.5,max_model_len=8192,enable_chunk_prefill=True,tensor_parallel_size=1 \
  --tasks mgsm \
  --apply_chat_template\
  --batch_size auto

lm_eval \
  --model vllm \
  --model_args pretrained="RedHatAI/Qwen3-8B-quantized.w4a16",dtype=auto,gpu_memory_utilization=0.5,max_model_len=16384,enable_chunk_prefill=True,tensor_parallel_size=1 \
  --tasks leaderboard \
  --apply_chat_template\
  --fewshot_as_multiturn \
  --batch_size auto

lighteval

lighteval_model_arguments.yaml

model_parameters:
  model_name: RedHatAI/Qwen3-8B-quantized.w4a16
  dtype: auto
  gpu_memory_utilization: 0.9
  max_model_length: 40960
  generation_parameters:
    temperature: 0.6
    top_k: 20
    min_p: 0.0
    top_p: 0.95
    max_new_tokens: 32768

lighteval vllm \
  --model_args lighteval_model_arguments.yaml \
  --tasks lighteval|aime24|0|0 \
  --use_chat_template = true

lighteval vllm \
  --model_args lighteval_model_arguments.yaml \
  --tasks lighteval|aime25|0|0 \
  --use_chat_template = true

lighteval vllm \
  --model_args lighteval_model_arguments.yaml \
  --tasks lighteval|math_500|0|0 \
  --use_chat_template = true

lighteval vllm \
  --model_args lighteval_model_arguments.yaml \
  --tasks lighteval|gpqa:diamond|0|0 \
  --use_chat_template = true

lighteval vllm \
  --model_args lighteval_model_arguments.yaml \
  --tasks extended|lcb:codegeneration \
  --use_chat_template = true

Accuracy

Category	Benchmark	Qwen3-8B	Qwen3-8B-quantized.w4a16 (this model)	Recovery
OpenLLM v1	MMLU (5-shot)	71.95	69.74	96.9%
	ARC Challenge (25-shot)	61.69	61.77	100.1%
	GSM-8K (5-shot, strict-match)	75.97	78.62	103.5%
	Hellaswag (10-shot)	56.52	57.79	102.2%
	Winogrande (5-shot)	65.98	66.22	100.4%
	TruthfulQA (0-shot, mc2)	53.17	53.71	101.0%
	Average	64.21	64.64	100.7%
OpenLLM v2	MMLU-Pro (5-shot)	34.57	25.71	74.4%
	IFEval (0-shot)	84.77	85.44	100.8%
	BBH (3-shot)	25.47	21.17	83.1%
	Math-lvl-5 (4-shot)	51.05	51.38	100.7%
	GPQA (0-shot)	0.00	0.00	---
	MuSR (0-shot)	10.02	9.31	---
	Average	34.31	32.17	93.8%
Multilingual	MGSM (0-shot)	25.97	24.73	95.3%
Reasoning (generation)	AIME 2024	74.58	74.17	99.5%
	AIME 2025	65.21	61.98	95.1%
	GPQA diamond	58.59	55.56	94.8%
	Math-lvl-5	97.60	96.20	98.6%
	LiveCodeBench	56.27	52.29	92.9%