Qwen3.5-9B · FP8 (dynamic)

8-bit quantization of Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B, produced for efficient vLLM serving. Quantized by axteam.

Base model Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B
Method FP8 (dynamic)
Format compressed-tensors FP8_DYNAMIC
Weights / activations W8A8 — FP8 E4M3 weights (per-output-channel scale), dynamic per-token FP8 activations
Architecture Hybrid (linear-attention + full-attention) · Dense · multimodal (vision) · MTP head
Size on disk ~11.5 GB
Calibration None (data-free static weight scales)
License Apache-2.0

Quantization details

  • Scheme — W8A8 — FP8 E4M3 weights (per-output-channel scale), dynamic per-token FP8 activations, stored as compressed-tensors FP8_DYNAMIC.
  • Kept in BF16 — the vision tower & projector (model.visual.*), the multi-token-prediction head (mtp.*), all RMSNorms, token embeddings, the LM head, the SSM non-linear parts (linear_attn.conv1d/A_log/dt_bias). Left unquantized to preserve quality (a small fraction of parameters).
  • Tokenizer / chat_template / generation_config are identical to the original. config.json is the original plus a quantization_config block.

This is post-training quantization (PTQ) — no retraining, so behaviour stays faithful to the original. FP8 dynamic is calibration-free.

Evaluation (measured)

Fidelity to the BF16 original on an internal mixed English/Korean set (100 prompts, BF16 greedy answers scored under each build — same harness for every row).

Metric This model BF16 original
Perplexity (lower = closer) 1.4669 1.4506 (+1.1%)
Top-1 next-token agreement 95.8% 99.2%

These measure fidelity to the base model, not absolute task scores.

Usage (vLLM)

vllm serve axteam/Qwen3.5-9B-FP8-dynamic

Recommended sampling (Qwen): temperature=0.7, top_p=0.8, top_k=20.

License

Quantized derivative of Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B (Apache-2.0). All original weights, tokenizer and chat template belong to the Qwen team.


한국어 요약

Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B 를 FP8 (dynamic) 로 양자화한 서빙용(8-bit) 모델입니다. 작성: axteam.

  • 방식 — FP8 E4M3. 가중치는 출력 채널마다 스케일 하나(정적·보정 불필요), 활성화는 추론 시 토큰마다 동적 FP8. 형식 compressed-tensors FP8_DYNAMIC.
  • BF16 유지 — 비전 타워·MTP 헤드·모든 norm·임베딩/LM 헤드·SSM 비선형부(conv1d/A_log/dt_bias).
  • PTQ — 재학습 없음, 원본 동작 유지.
  • 품질(실측) — BF16 원본 대비 perplexity 1.4669(원본 1.4506, +1.1%), top-1 일치도 95.8%(원본 99.2%). 내부 영/한 100문항, 같은 하네스.
  • 사용 — vllm serve axteam/Qwen3.5-9B-FP8-dynamic, 권장 샘플링 temperature=0.7, top_p=0.8, top_k=20.
  • 라이선스 — 원본 Apache-2.0 파생물. 가중치·토크나이저·chat_template 권리는 Qwen 팀.
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