Instructions to use axteam/Qwen3.5-9B-AWQ-8bit with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use axteam/Qwen3.5-9B-AWQ-8bit with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="axteam/Qwen3.5-9B-AWQ-8bit")
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)

# pip install -U transformers accelerate
# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForMultimodalLM

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("axteam/Qwen3.5-9B-AWQ-8bit")
model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("axteam/Qwen3.5-9B-AWQ-8bit", 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=256)
print(processor.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:]))

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use axteam/Qwen3.5-9B-AWQ-8bit with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "axteam/Qwen3.5-9B-AWQ-8bit"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "axteam/Qwen3.5-9B-AWQ-8bit",
		"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/axteam/Qwen3.5-9B-AWQ-8bit

SGLang

How to use axteam/Qwen3.5-9B-AWQ-8bit 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 "axteam/Qwen3.5-9B-AWQ-8bit" \
    --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": "axteam/Qwen3.5-9B-AWQ-8bit",
		"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 "axteam/Qwen3.5-9B-AWQ-8bit" \
        --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": "axteam/Qwen3.5-9B-AWQ-8bit",
		"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 axteam/Qwen3.5-9B-AWQ-8bit with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/axteam/Qwen3.5-9B-AWQ-8bit
```

Qwen3.5-9B · AWQ INT8 (W8A16)

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


Base model	`Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B`
Method	AWQ INT8 (W8A16)
Format	compressed-tensors `pack-quantized`
Weights / activations	W8A16 — INT8 symmetric weights, group size 32, BF16 activations
Architecture	Hybrid (linear-attention + full-attention) · Dense · multimodal (vision) · MTP head
Size on disk	~11.9 GB
Calibration	256 samples (Korean-heavy mixed corpus)
License	Apache-2.0

Quantization details

Scheme — W8A16 — INT8 symmetric weights, group size 32, BF16 activations, stored as compressed-tensors pack-quantized.
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. AWQ uses a small calibration set (no gradient) to protect salient weight channels before rounding.

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)	1.4507	1.4506 (+0.0%)
Top-1 next-token agreement	98.6%	99.2%

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

Usage (vLLM)

vllm serve axteam/Qwen3.5-9B-AWQ-8bit

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 AWQ INT8 (W8A16) 로 양자화한 서빙용(8-bit) 모델입니다. 작성: axteam.

방식 — INT8 대칭, 32개 묶음, 활성화 BF16(W8A16). 형식 compressed-tensors pack-quantized.
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 1.4507(원본 1.4506, +0.0%), top-1 일치도 98.6%(원본 99.2%). 내부 영/한 100문항, 같은 하네스.
사용 — vllm serve axteam/Qwen3.5-9B-AWQ-8bit, 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.