Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507.w4a16

Model Overview

• Model Architecture: Qwen3ForCausalLM
  • Input: Text
  • Output: Text
• Model Optimizations:
  • Weight quantization: INT4
• Intended Use Cases:
  • Reasoning.
  • Function calling.
  • Subject matter experts via fine-tuning.
  • Multilingual instruction following.
  • Translation.
• Out-of-scope: Use in any manner that violates applicable laws or regulations (including trade compliance laws).
• Release Date: 05/05/2025
• Version: 1.0
• Model Developers: RedHat (Neural Magic)

Model Optimizations

This model was obtained by quantizing the weights of Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507 to INT4 data type. This optimization reduces the number of bits per parameter from 16 to 4, reducing the disk size and GPU memory requirements by approximately 75%.

Only the weights of the linear operators within transformers blocks are quantized. Weights are quantized using a symmetric per-group scheme, with group size 128. The GPTQ algorithm is applied for quantization, as implemented in the llm-compressor library.

Deployment

This model can be deployed efficiently using the vLLM backend, as shown in the example below.

from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
from transformers import AutoTokenizer

model_id = "RedHatAI/Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507.w4a16"
number_gpus = 1
sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.6, top_p=0.95, top_k=20, min_p=0, max_tokens=256)

messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": prompt}
]

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)

messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "Give me a short introduction to large language model."}]

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

llm = LLM(model=model_id, tensor_parallel_size=number_gpus)

outputs = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params)

generated_text = outputs[0].outputs[0].text
print(generated_text)

vLLM aslo supports OpenAI-compatible serving. See the documentation for more details.

Creation

Creation details

This model was created with [llm-compressor](https://github.com/vllm-project/llm-compressor) by running the code snippet below.

from llmcompressor.modifiers.quantization import GPTQModifier
from llmcompressor.transformers import oneshot
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

# Load model
model_stub = "Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Thinking"
model_name = model_stub.split("/")[-1]

num_samples = 1024
max_seq_len = 8192

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_stub)

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_stub)

def preprocess_fn(example):
  return {"text": tokenizer.apply_chat_template(example["messages"], add_generation_prompt=False, tokenize=False)}

ds = load_dataset("neuralmagic/LLM_compression_calibration", split="train")
ds = ds.map(preprocess_fn)

# Configure the quantization algorithm and scheme
recipe = GPTQModifier(
    ignore: ["lm_head"]
    config_groups={"group_0": {"targets": ["Linear"], "weights": { "num_bits": 4, "type": int, "strategy": "group", "group_size": 128, "symmetric": true, "dynamic": false, "observer": "mse" } } },
    dampening_frac=0.01,
)

# Apply quantization
oneshot(
    model=model,
    dataset=ds, 
    recipe=recipe,
    max_seq_length=max_seq_len,
    num_calibration_samples=num_samples,
)

# Save to disk in compressed-tensors format
save_path = model_name + "-quantized.w4a16"
model.save_pretrained(save_path)
tokenizer.save_pretrained(save_path)
print(f"Model and tokenizer saved to: {save_path}")

Evaluation

The model was evaluated on the OpenLLM leaderboard tasks versions 2, using lm-evaluation-harness, and on reasoning tasks using lighteval. vLLM was used for all evaluations.

Evaluation details

lm-evaluation-harness

lm_eval \
  --model vllm \
  --model_args pretrained="RedHatAI/Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507.w4a16",dtype=auto,gpu_memory_utilization=0.5,max_model_len=15000,enable_chunk_prefill=True,tensor_parallel_size=1 \
  --tasks openllm \
  --apply_chat_template\
  --fewshot_as_multiturn \
  --batch_size auto

lm_eval \
  --model vllm \
  --model_args pretrained="RedHatAI/Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507.w4a16",dtype=auto,gpu_memory_utilization=0.5,max_model_len=15000,enable_chunk_prefill=True,tensor_parallel_size=1 \
  --tasks mgsm \
  --apply_chat_template\
  --batch_size auto

lm_eval \
  --model vllm \
  --model_args pretrained="RedHatAI/Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507.w4a16",dtype=auto,gpu_memory_utilization=0.5,max_model_len=15000,enable_chunk_prefill=True,tensor_parallel_size=1 \
  --tasks leaderboard \
  --apply_chat_template\
  --fewshot_as_multiturn \
  --batch_size auto

lighteval

lighteval_model_arguments.yaml

model_parameters:
  model_name: RedHatAI/Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507.w4a16
  dtype: auto
  gpu_memory_utilization: 0.9
  max_model_length: 40960
  generation_parameters:
    temperature: 0.6
    top_k: 20
    min_p: 0.0
    top_p: 0.95
    max_new_tokens: 32000

lighteval vllm \
  --model_args lighteval_model_arguments.yaml \
  --tasks lighteval|aime24|0|0 \
  --use_chat_template = true

lighteval vllm \
  --model_args lighteval_model_arguments.yaml \
  --tasks lighteval|aime25|0|0 \
  --use_chat_template = true

lighteval vllm \
  --model_args lighteval_model_arguments.yaml \
  --tasks lighteval|math_500|0|0 \
  --use_chat_template = true

lighteval vllm \
  --model_args lighteval_model_arguments.yaml \
  --tasks lighteval|gpqa:diamond|0|0 \
  --use_chat_template = true

lighteval vllm \
  --model_args lighteval_model_arguments.yaml \
  --tasks extended|lcb:codegeneration \
  --use_chat_template = true

Accuracy

Category	Benchmark	Qwen3-4B-Thinking	Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507.w4a16 (this model)	Recovery
LLM as a judge	Arena Hard v2	50 (48.3 / 51.8)	43.2 (41.4 / 44.7)	94.7%
OpenLLM v2	MMLU-Pro (5-shot)	47.45	45.38	95.6%
	IFEval (0-shot)	86.26	84.86	98.4%
	BBH (3-shot)	XX.XX	XX.XX	XX.X%
	Math-lvl-5 (4-shot)	XX.XX	XX.XX	XX.X%
	GPQA (0-shot)	XX.XX	XX.XX	XX.X%
	MuSR (0-shot)	XX.XX	XX.XX	XX.X%
	Average	XX.XX	xx.xx	XX.X%
Reasoning (generation)	AIME 2025	70.0	63.33	91.5%
	GPQA diamond	69.70	62.12	89.1%
	Math-lvl-5	96.4	97.20	100.1%
	Average	78.70	74.22	94.3%