Instructions to use AxionML/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4 with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use AxionML/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4 with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="AxionML/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4")
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("AxionML/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4")
model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("AxionML/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4", 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 AxionML/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4 with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "AxionML/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "AxionML/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4",
		"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/AxionML/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4

SGLang

How to use AxionML/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4 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 "AxionML/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4" \
    --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": "AxionML/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4",
		"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 "AxionML/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4" \
        --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": "AxionML/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4",
		"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 AxionML/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4 with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/AxionML/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4
```

AxionML Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4

Mirrored by AxionML for open-source serving and deployment use cases. Part of AxionML's effort to provide ready-to-serve quantized models for the community.

Quantized by RadixArk. The weights in this repository are an unmodified copy of RadixArk/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4 (revision 319f741cce68d7914884900c138a1fbb70a42f30). All credit for the quantization belongs to RadixArk.

This is an NVFP4-quantized version of Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B (27B parameters, dense multimodal), quantized with NVIDIA Model Optimizer.

About NVFP4 quantization: NVFP4 on Blackwell couples a compact E2M1 FP4 codebook with blockwise FP8 (E4M3) scaling over 16-element micro-blocks, so that 4-bit stored values remain numerically useful for neural-network computation. The E2M1 codebook provides a small, nonuniform set of representable magnitudes up to ±6 and relies on saturating behavior rather than IEEE NaN/Inf encodings to maximize usable range per bit. Using an FP8 block scale (rather than power-of-two-only E8M0) enables fractional scales and error-minimizing scale selection. On Blackwell Tensor Cores, native FP4 multipliers exploit E2M1 simplicity while higher-precision FP32 accumulation protects dot-product accuracy.

Ready for commercial and non-commercial use under Apache 2.0.

Model Summary


Architecture	Dense multimodal transformer (text, image, video input)
Parameters	27B
Context Length	262,144 tokens (native)
Checkpoint Size	~21.9 GB

Evaluation Results

Benchmark	Protocol	NVFP4
GSM8K	Full 1,319-example split, thinking mode	97.27
Terminal-Bench 2.1	84-task subset, pass@1	73.81

Scores reported by RadixArk for this checkpoint on 4x B300/GB300 (SGLang, TP4). GSM8K used temperature=1.0, top_p=0.95, top_k=20; text-only.

Quantization Details

Quantization format: mixed NVFP4 — MLP gate_proj / up_proj / down_proj and lm_head in dynamic NVFP4 W4A4 (group size 16); attention weights in FP8; MTP and vision tensors kept in BF16
KV cache: FP8
Calibration dataset: 1,024 samples from abisee/cnn_dailymail (train split), sequence length 512
Tool: NVIDIA Model Optimizer, commit 87c9f8cf

Usage

Deploy with SGLang

sglang serve \
    --trust-remote-code \
    --model-path AxionML/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4 \
    --tp-size 4 \
    --mem-fraction-static 0.75 \
    --speculative-algorithm NEXTN \
    --speculative-num-steps 3 \
    --speculative-eagle-topk 1 \
    --speculative-num-draft-tokens 4 \
    --reasoning-parser qwen3 \
    --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder

See the SGLang Qwen3.8-27B cookbook for other topologies.

Limitations

The base model was trained on data that may contain toxic language and societal biases. The quantized model inherits these limitations. It may generate inaccurate, biased, or offensive content. Please refer to the original model card and the upstream quantized model card for full details.

Credits

Base model: Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
Quantization: RadixArk/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4 by RadixArk
Mirror: AxionML

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