Instructions to use Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B with Transformers:

# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B")
messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"},
            {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"}
        ]
    },
]
pipe(text=messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForMultimodalLM

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B")
model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B", device_map="auto")
messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"},
            {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"}
        ]
    },
]
inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(
	messages,
	add_generation_prompt=True,
	tokenize=True,
	return_dict=True,
	return_tensors="pt",
).to(model.device)

outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=40)
print(processor.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:]))

Inference
HuggingChat
Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
AMD Developer Cloud
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

SGLang

How to use Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B with SGLang:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install SGLang from pip:
pip install sglang
# Start the SGLang server:
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
    --model-path "Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B" \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker images

docker run --gpus all \
    --shm-size 32g \
    -p 30000:30000 \
    -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
    --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \
    --ipc=host \
    lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
    python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
        --model-path "Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B" \
        --host 0.0.0.0 \
        --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
```

tool calling failed with claude code

#30

by weisunding - opened Apr 18

Discussion

weisunding

Apr 18

•

edited Apr 18

The suggested tool calling with vLLM failed, specified the shipped chat template seems work.

    --enable-auto-tool-choice \
    --reasoning-parser qwen3 \
    --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder \
    --chat-template /chat/qwen-3.6.jinja

Streaming failed, falling back to non-streaming: API error: Streaming API error 400 Bad Request: {"error":{"message":"Can only get item pairs from a mapping.","type":"BadRequestError","param":null,"code":400}}

✗ error: API error: Non-streaming API error 400 Bad Request: {"error":{"message":"Can only get item pairs from a mapping.","type":"BadRequestError","param":null,"code":400}}

weisunding

Apr 18

update, using latest vllm seems worked!

sudo docker pull vllm/vllm-openai:latest

vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B \
    --served-model-name beast \
    --api-key secret \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 8000 \
    --tensor-parallel-size 2 \
    --kv-cache-dtype fp8 \
    --max-num-seqs 32 \
    --max-model-len 204800 \
    --gpu-memory-utilization 0.85 \
    --max-num-batched-tokens 8192 \
    --disable-custom-all-reduce \
    --enable-prefix-caching \
    --enable-chunked-prefill \
    --trust-remote-code \
    --speculative-config '{"method":"mtp","num_speculative_tokens":2}' \
    --enable-auto-tool-choice \
    --reasoning-parser qwen3 \
    --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder

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