Qwen3 4B AWQ

🚀 Qwen3-4B-AWQ

Qwen3-4B-AWQ is a powerful language model in the Qwen series, offering advanced reasoning, multilingual support, and excellent agent capabilities.

✨ Features

Qwen3 Highlights

Qwen3 is the latest generation of large language models in the Qwen series. It provides a comprehensive set of dense and mixture - of - experts (MoE) models. After extensive training, Qwen3 makes groundbreaking progress in reasoning, instruction - following, agent capabilities, and multilingual support, with the following key features:

• Unique seamless switching: It supports seamless switching between the thinking mode (for complex logical reasoning, math, and coding) and the non - thinking mode (for efficient, general - purpose dialogue) within a single model, ensuring optimal performance in various scenarios.
• Enhanced reasoning capabilities: It significantly enhances its reasoning capabilities, outperforming previous QwQ (in thinking mode) and Qwen2.5 instruct models (in non - thinking mode) in mathematics, code generation, and commonsense logical reasoning.
• Superior human preference alignment: It has excellent human preference alignment, excelling in creative writing, role - playing, multi - turn dialogues, and instruction following, providing a more natural, engaging, and immersive conversational experience.
• Expert agent capabilities: It is proficient in agent capabilities, enabling precise integration with external tools in both thinking and non - thinking modes and achieving leading performance among open - source models in complex agent - based tasks.
• Multilingual support: It supports over 100 languages and dialects, with strong capabilities for multilingual instruction following and translation.

Model Overview

Qwen3 - 4B has the following features:

For more details, including benchmark evaluation, hardware requirements, and inference performance, please refer to our blog, GitHub, and Documentation.

🚀 Quick Start

The code of Qwen3 is included in the latest Hugging Face transformers. We recommend using the latest version of transformers.

If you use transformers<4.51.0, you will encounter the following error:

KeyError: 'qwen3'

The following is a code snippet showing how to use the model to generate content based on given inputs:

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model_name = "Qwen/Qwen3-4B-AWQ"

# load the tokenizer and the model
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    model_name,
    torch_dtype="auto",
    device_map="auto"
)

# prepare the model input
prompt = "Give me a short introduction to large language model."
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": prompt}
]
text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
    messages,
    tokenize=False,
    add_generation_prompt=True,
    enable_thinking=True # Switches between thinking and non-thinking modes. Default is True.
)
model_inputs = tokenizer([text], return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)

# conduct text completion
generated_ids = model.generate(
    **model_inputs,
    max_new_tokens=32768
)
output_ids = generated_ids[0][len(model_inputs.input_ids[0]):].tolist() 

# parsing thinking content
try:
    # rindex finding 151668 (</think>)
    index = len(output_ids) - output_ids[::-1].index(151668)
except ValueError:
    index = 0

thinking_content = tokenizer.decode(output_ids[:index], skip_special_tokens=True).strip("\n")
content = tokenizer.decode(output_ids[index:], skip_special_tokens=True).strip("\n")

print("thinking content:", thinking_content)
print("content:", content)

For deployment, you can use sglang>=0.4.6.post1 or vllm>=0.8.5 to create an OpenAI - compatible API endpoint:

• SGLang:

  python -m sglang.launch_server --model-path Qwen/Qwen3-4B-AWQ --reasoning-parser qwen3
  

• vLLM:

  vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3-4B-AWQ --enable-reasoning --reasoning-parser deepseek_r1
  

Also, check out our AWQ documentation for more usage guides.

💻 Usage Examples

Basic Usage

The above quick - start code is a basic usage example.

Advanced Usage

Switching Between Thinking and Non - Thinking Mode

⚠️ Important Note

The enable_thinking switch is also available in APIs created by SGLang and vLLM. Please refer to our documentation for SGLang and vLLM users.

enable_thinking=True

By default, Qwen3 has thinking capabilities enabled, similar to QwQ - 32B. This means the model will use its reasoning abilities to improve the quality of generated responses. For example, when explicitly setting enable_thinking=True or leaving it as the default value in tokenizer.apply_chat_template, the model will enter its thinking mode.

text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
    messages,
    tokenize=False,
    add_generation_prompt=True,
    enable_thinking=True  # True is the default value for enable_thinking
)

In this mode, the model will generate think content wrapped in a <think>...</think> block, followed by the final response.

⚠️ Important Note

For thinking mode, use Temperature = 0.6, TopP = 0.95, TopK = 20, and MinP = 0 (the default setting in generation_config.json). DO NOT use greedy decoding, as it can lead to performance degradation and endless repetitions. For more detailed guidance, please refer to the Best Practices section.

enable_thinking=False

We provide a hard switch to strictly disable the model's thinking behavior, making its functionality similar to the previous Qwen2.5 - Instruct models. This mode is particularly useful in scenarios where disabling thinking is essential for improving efficiency.

text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
    messages,
    tokenize=False,
    add_generation_prompt=True,
    enable_thinking=False  # Setting enable_thinking=False disables thinking mode
)

In this mode, the model will not generate any think content and will not include a <think>...</think> block.

⚠️ Important Note

For non - thinking mode, we suggest using Temperature = 0.7, TopP = 0.8, TopK = 20, and MinP = 0. For more detailed guidance, please refer to the Best Practices section.

Advanced Usage: Switching Between Thinking and Non - Thinking Modes via User Input

We provide a soft switch mechanism that allows users to dynamically control the model's behavior when enable_thinking=True. Specifically, you can add /think and /no_think to user prompts or system messages to switch the model's thinking mode in each turn. The model will follow the most recent instruction in multi - turn conversations. Here is an example of a multi - turn conversation:

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

class QwenChatbot:
    def __init__(self, model_name="Qwen/Qwen3-4B-AWQ"):
        self.tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
        self.model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_name)
        self.history = []

    def generate_response(self, user_input):
        messages = self.history + [{"role": "user", "content": user_input}]

        text = self.tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
            messages,
            tokenize=False,
            add_generation_prompt=True
        )

        inputs = self.tokenizer(text, return_tensors="pt")
        response_ids = self.model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=32768)[0][len(inputs.input_ids[0]):].tolist()
        response = self.tokenizer.decode(response_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)

        # Update history
        self.history.append({"role": "user", "content": user_input})
        self.history.append({"role": "assistant", "content": response})

        return response

# Example Usage
if __name__ == "__main__":
    chatbot = QwenChatbot()

    # First input (without /think or /no_think tags, thinking mode is enabled by default)
    user_input_1 = "How many r's in strawberries?"
    print(f"User: {user_input_1}")
    response_1 = chatbot.generate_response(user_input_1)
    print(f"Bot: {response_1}")
    print("----------------------")

    # Second input with /no_think
    user_input_2 = "Then, how many r's in blueberries? /no_think"
    print(f"User: {user_input_2}")
    response_2 = chatbot.generate_response(user_input_2)
    print(f"Bot: {response_2}") 
    print("----------------------")

    # Third input with /think
    user_input_3 = "Really? /think"
    print(f"User: {user_input_3}")
    response_3 = chatbot.generate_response(user_input_3)
    print(f"Bot: {response_3}")

⚠️ Important Note

For API compatibility, when enable_thinking=True, regardless of whether the user uses /think or /no_think, the model will always output a block wrapped in <think>...</think>. However, the content inside this block may be empty if thinking is disabled. When enable_thinking=False, the soft switches are not valid. Regardless of any /think or /no_think tags input by the user, the model will not generate think content and will not include a <think>...</think> block.

Agentic Use

Qwen3 excels in tool - calling capabilities. We recommend using [Qwen - Agent](https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen - Agent) to fully utilize the agentic ability of Qwen3. Qwen - Agent encapsulates tool - calling templates and tool - calling parsers internally, greatly reducing coding complexity. To define the available tools, you can use the MCP configuration file, use the integrated tool of Qwen - Agent, or integrate other tools by yourself.

from qwen_agent.agents import Assistant

# Define LLM
llm_cfg = {
    'model': 'Qwen3-4B-AWQ',

    # Use the endpoint provided by Alibaba Model Studio:
    # 'model_type': 'qwen_dashscope',
    # 'api_key': os.getenv('DASHSCOPE_API_KEY'),

    # Use a custom endpoint compatible with OpenAI API:
    'model_server': 'http://localhost:8000/v1',  # api_base
    'api_key': 'EMPTY',

    # Other parameters:
    # 'generate_cfg': {
    #         # Add: When the response content is `<think>this is the thought</think>this is the answer;
    #         # Do not add: When the response has been separated by reasoning_content and content.
    #         'thought_in_content': True,
    #     },
}

# Define Tools
tools = [
    {'mcpServers': {  # You can specify the MCP configuration file
            'time': {
                'command': 'uvx',
                'args': ['mcp-server-time', '--local-timezone=Asia/Shanghai']
            },
            "fetch": {
                "command": "uvx",
                "args": ["mcp-server-fetch"]
            }
        }
    },
  'code_interpreter',  # Built-in tools
]

# Define Agent
bot = Assistant(llm=llm_cfg, function_list=tools)

# Streaming generation
messages = [{'role': 'user', 'content': 'https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/ Introduce the latest developments of Qwen'}]
for responses in bot.run(messages=messages):
    pass
print(responses)

Processing Long Texts

Qwen3 natively supports context lengths of up to 32,768 tokens. For conversations where the total length (including both input and output) significantly exceeds this limit, we recommend using RoPE scaling techniques to handle long texts effectively. We have validated the model's performance on context lengths of up to 131,072 tokens using the YaRN method. YaRN is currently supported by several inference frameworks, such as transformers for local use, vllm and sglang for deployment. In general, there are two ways to enable YaRN for supported frameworks:

• Modifying the model files: In the config.json file, add the rope_scaling fields:

  {
      ...,
      "rope_scaling": {
          "rope_type": "yarn",
          "factor": 4.0,
          "original_max_position_embeddings": 32768
      }
  }
  

• Passing command - line arguments: For vllm, you can use

  vllm serve ... --rope-scaling '{"rope_type":"yarn","factor":4.0,"original_max_position_embeddings":32768}' --max-model-len 131072  
  

  For sglang, you can use

  python -m sglang.launch_server ... --json-model-override-args '{"rope_scaling":{"rope_type":"yarn","factor":4.0,"original_max_position_embeddings":32768}}'
  

⚠️ Important Note

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📄 License

This project is licensed under the [Apache - 2.0 license](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3 - 4B/blob/main/LICENSE).