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 Qwen3-0.6B 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.

python

from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
from transformers import AutoTokenizer

model_id = "RedHatAI/Qwen3-0.6B-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.

python

from llmcompressor.modifiers.quantization import GPTQModifier
from llmcompressor.transformers import oneshot
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
  
# Load model
model_stub = "Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B"
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,
    config_groups={
        "group0": {
            "targets": ["Linear"]
            "weights": {
                "num_bits": 4,
                "type": "int",
                "strategy": "group",
                "group_size": 64,
                "symmetric": False,
                "actorder": "weight",
                "observer": "mse",
            }
        }
    }
  )

  # 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/Qwen3-0.6B-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/Qwen3-0.6B-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/Qwen3-0.6B-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

yaml

model_parameters:
  model_name: RedHatAI/Qwen3-0.6B-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	Qwen3-0.6B	Qwen3-0.6B-quantized.w4a16 (this model)	Recovery
OpenLLM v1	MMLU (5-shot)	42.82	39.80	93.00%
ARC Challenge (25-shot)	32.85	30.72	93.5%
GSM-8K (5-shot, strict-match)	1.82	2.20	---
Hellaswag (10-shot)	43.04	41.02	95.3%
Winogrande (5-shot)	54.54	54.62	100.1%
TruthfulQA (0-shot, mc2)	51.61	48.77	94.5%
Average	37.78	36.19	95.8%
OpenLLM v2	MMLU-Pro (5-shot)	17.25	14.27	---
IFEval (0-shot)	62.83	55.81	88.8%
BBH (3-shot)	4.23	1.63	---
Math-lvl-5 (4-shot)	18.26	10.26	---
GPQA (0-shot)	0.00	0.00	---
MuSR (0-shot)	0.00	0.00	---
Average	17.10	13.66	---
Multilingual	MGSM (0-shot)	19.70	19.90	---
Reasoning (generation)	AIME 2024	9.69	3.44	---
AIME 2025	13.13	6.98	---
GPQA diamond	29.29	27.78	94.8%
Math-lvl-5	71.60	70.60	98.6%
LiveCodeBench	12.83	8.35	---