The NVIDIA Qwen3.5-397B-A17B NVFP4 model is the quantized version of Alibaba's Qwen3.5-397B-A17B model, which is an auto-regressive language model that uses an optimized transformer architecture. For more information, please check here. The NVIDIA Qwen3.5-397B-A17B NVFP4 model is quantized with Model Optimizer.

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Third-Party Community Consideration

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License/Terms of Use:

Apache license 2.0

Deployment Geography:

Global

Use Case:

Developers looking to take off-the-shelf, pre-quantized models for deployment in AI Agent systems, chatbots, RAG systems, and other AI-powered applications.

Release Date:

Huggingface 02/17/2026 via https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B-NVFP4

Model Architecture:

Architecture Type: Transformers
Network Architecture: Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Number of Model Parameters: 397B in total and 17B activated

Input:

Input Type(s): Text, Image, Video
Input Format(s): String, Red, Green, Blue (RGB), Video (MP4/WebM)
Input Parameters: One-Dimensional (1D), Two-Dimensional (2D), Three-Dimensional (3D)
Other Properties Related to Input: Context length up to 262K

Output:

Output Type(s): Text
Output Format: String
Output Parameters: 1D (One-Dimensional): Sequences
Other Properties Related to Output: N/A

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):

SGLang
vLLM

Supported Hardware Microarchitecture Compatibility:

NVIDIA Blackwell

Preferred Operating System(s):

Linux

Model Version(s):

The model is quantized with nvidia-modelopt v0.42.0

Training, Testing, and Evaluation Datasets:

Calibration Dataset:

** Link: cnn_dailymail, Nemotron-Post-Training-Dataset-v2
** Data Collection Method by dataset: Automated.
** Labeling method: Automated.
** Properties: The cnn_dailymail dataset is an English-language dataset containing just over 300k unique news articles as written by journalists at CNN and the Daily Mail.

Training Dataset:

** Data Modality: Undisclosed
** Data Collection Method by dataset: Undisclosed
** Labeling Method by dataset: Undisclosed
** Properties: Undisclosed

Testing Dataset:

** Data Collection Method by dataset: Undisclosed
** Labeling Method by dataset: Undisclosed
** Properties: Undisclosed

Evaluation Dataset:

** Data Collection Method by dataset: Hybrid: Human, Automated
** Labeling Method by dataset: Hybrid: Human, Automated
** Properties: We evaluated the model on benchmarks including GPQA, which is a dataset of 448 multiple-choice questions written by domain experts in biology, physics, and chemistry.

Inference:

Engine: SGLang
Test Hardware: B200

Post Training Quantization

This model was obtained by quantizing the weights and activations of Qwen3.5-397B-A17B to NVFP4 data type, ready for inference with SGLang. Only the weights and activations of the linear operators within transformer blocks in MoE are quantized.

Usage

To serve this checkpoint with SGLang, you can start the docker lmsysorg/sglang:v0.5.9 and run the sample command below:

python3 -m sglang.launch_server --model nvidia/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B-NVFP4 --tensor-parallel-size 4 --quantization modelopt_fp4 --trust-remote-code

To serve this checkpoint with vLLM, you can start the docker image vllm/vllm-openai:latest and run the sample command (for GB200) below:

vllm serve nvidia/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B-NVFP4 \
  -dp 4 \
  --enable-expert-parallel \
  --language-model-only \
  --reasoning-parser qwen3 \
  --enable-prefix-caching

Evaluation

The accuracy benchmark results are presented in the table below:

Precision	MMLU Pro	GPQA Diamond	LiveCodeBench V6	SciCode	AIME 2025	AA-LCR	IFBench
FP8	0.883	0.871	0.837	0.467	0.918	0.696	0.761
NVFP4	0.880	0.871	0.843	0.479	0.922	0.701	0.756

Baseline: Qwen3.5-397B-A17B-FP8. Benchmarked with temperature=0.6, top_p=0.95, max num tokens 64000

Model Limitations:

The base model was trained on data that contains toxic language and societal biases originally crawled from the internet. Therefore, the model may amplify those biases and return toxic responses especially when prompted with toxic prompts. The model may generate answers that may be inaccurate, omit key information, or include irrelevant or redundant text producing socially unacceptable or undesirable text, even if the prompt itself does not include anything explicitly offensive.

Ethical Considerations

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