A mixed-precision AutoRound quantized version of Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B, optimized to reduce memory requirements while preserving the quality of the original model.

Base Model

Base model: Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B

This model is a quantized version of the original Qwen3.8-27B checkpoint. It is not a fine-tune, merge, or distillation.

Quantization

Quantization was performed using Intel AutoRound with a custom mixed-precision quantization configuration.

The quantization recipe was designed to balance:

Model quality
Memory efficiency
Inference performance
vLLM compatibility

Some model components are intentionally retained at higher precision where appropriate.

Property	Value
Quantization framework	Intel AutoRound
Quantization type	Custom Mixed-Precision INT4
Group size	32
Base model	Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
Language layers	64
Vision tower	Preserved at original precision

The detailed mixed-precision allocation strategy is not included in this model card.

Evaluation

Evaluation was performed using AutoRound's evaluation interface with LM Evaluation Harness.

The following results compare the original Qwen3.8-27B model against Qwen3.8-27B-MixedInt4-AutoRound.

Benchmark	Metric	Qwen3.8-27B	Qwen3.8-27B-MixedInt4-AutoRound	Difference	Recovery Rate
MMLU	acc	83.49%	83.07%	-0.42 pp	99.50%
GSM8K	exact_match (flexible)	72.86%	76.12%	+3.26 pp	104.47%
ARC-Challenge	acc_norm	58.87%	58.87%	0.00 pp	100.00%
BoolQ	acc	86.64%	80.49%	-6.15 pp	92.90%
HellaSwag	acc_norm	82.82%	82.40%	-0.42 pp	99.49%
PIQA	acc_norm	81.61%	81.66%	+0.05 pp	100.06%
WinoGrande	acc	75.85%	76.16%	+0.31 pp	100.41%
Average	—	77.45%	76.97%	-0.48 pp	99.38%

MMLU Category Breakdown

MMLU Category	Qwen3.8-27B	Qwen3.8-27B-MixedInt4-AutoRound	Difference	Recovery Rate
Humanities	77.39%	77.39%	0.00 pp	100.00%
Other	86.03%	85.87%	-0.16 pp	99.81%
Social Sciences	90.74%	90.35%	-0.39 pp	99.57%
STEM	83.03%	81.67%	-1.36 pp	98.36%

GSM8K

Metric	Qwen3.8-27B	Qwen3.8-27B-MixedInt4-AutoRound	Difference	Recovery Rate
Flexible Exact Match	72.86%	76.12%	+3.26 pp	104.47%
Strict Exact Match	70.36%	73.69%	+3.33 pp	104.73%

Recovery Rate represents benchmark performance relative to the original Qwen3.8-27B checkpoint. A recovery rate above 100% indicates that the quantized model scored higher than the original model in that particular evaluation. Benchmark preservation does not imply identical behavior for every prompt, multimodal workload, long-context workload, or generation setting.

Usage

This checkpoint is intended for inference engines with AutoRound quantization support, including compatible versions of vLLM.

Example:

bash

vllm serve Pilcothink/Qwen3.8-27B-MixedInt4-AutoRound \
  --tensor-parallel-size 2 \
  --trust-remote-code \
  --reasoning-parser qwen3 \
  --enable-auto-tool-choice \
  --enable-prefix-caching \
  --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder \
  --kv-cache-dtype fp8 \
  --max-model-len 262144 \
  --max-num-batched-tokens 8192 \
  --mm-encoder-tp-mode data \
  --max-num-seqs 10 

Example with MTP

bash

vllm serve Pilcothink/Qwen3.8-27B-MixedInt4-AutoRound \
  --tensor-parallel-size 2 \
  --trust-remote-code \
  --reasoning-parser qwen3 \
  --enable-auto-tool-choice \
  --enable-prefix-caching \
  --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder \
  --kv-cache-dtype fp8 \
  --max-model-len 262144 \
  --max-num-batched-tokens 8192 \
  --mm-encoder-tp-mode data \
  --max-num-seqs 10 \
  --speculative-config '{"method":"mtp","num_speculative_tokens":3}'

Example with Serving 1M

bash

vllm serve Pilcothink/Qwen3.8-27B-MixedInt4-AutoRound \
  --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000 \
  --tensor-parallel-size 2 \
  --trust-remote-code \
  --reasoning-parser qwen3 \
  --enable-auto-tool-choice \
  --enable-prefix-caching \
  --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder \
  --kv-cache-dtype fp8 \
  --max-model-len 1010000 \
  --max-num-batched-tokens 8192 \
  --mm-encoder-tp-mode data \
  --max-num-seqs 10 \
  --hf-overrides '{"text_config": {"max_position_embeddings": 1010000}}'

Additional reasoning and tool-calling options should be configured according to the vLLM version being used.

Notes

This is a quantized derivative of Qwen3.8-27B.
The model uses a custom mixed-precision quantization recipe.
The vision components are preserved at their original precision.
Quantization may introduce small behavioral differences compared with the original checkpoint.

Acknowledgements

Base model: Qwen Team
Quantization framework: Intel AutoRound

Please refer to the original Qwen3.8-27B model card for licensing, intended usage, limitations, and other information applicable to the base model.