This checkpoint keeps the same hybrid Qwen3.5 DeltaNet + softmax architecture and Qwen3.5 MTP head as the BF16 source, but quantizes most linear layers to FP8 W8A8 while leaving the most sensitive projections and sidecar components in BF16.
The published folder includes:
model.safetensors
model.safetensors.index.json
model.mtp.safetensors
processor_config.json
preprocessor_config.json
video_preprocessor_config.json
recipe.yaml
Verified Inference
Local export and sanity-check evaluation were verified on 2026-03-31 on a single NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition (96 GB) with:
transformers==5.3.0
llm-compressor==0.10.1.dev40+g5ae2e149
vllm==0.17.1
What was verified in that run:
the FP8 export completed successfully
model.mtp.safetensors was restored into the output folder
the checkpoint loads in transformers with device_map="auto"
a quick perplexity sanity check against the BF16 source completed successfully
vLLM is still the intended serving path for this family of models, but full local serve validation for this exact FP8 v2 export is still pending.