---
pipeline_tag: image-text-to-text
base_model:
- stepfun-ai/Step-3.7-Flash
base_model_relation: quantized
license: apache-2.0
library_name: transformers
tags:
- AxionML
- ModelOpt
- Step-3.7
- quantized
- NVFP4
- nvfp4
- sglang
- mirror
---

# AxionML Step-3.7-Flash-NVFP4

> Mirrored by [AxionML](https://huggingface.co/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 StepFun.** The weights in this repository are an unmodified copy of [stepfun-ai/Step-3.7-Flash-NVFP4](https://huggingface.co/stepfun-ai/Step-3.7-Flash-NVFP4) (revision `4275532ffd9a9496ff36b7a2dc4a9db1048da438`). All credit for the quantization belongs to StepFun.

This is an NVFP4-quantized version of [stepfun-ai/Step-3.7-Flash](https://huggingface.co/stepfun-ai/Step-3.7-Flash) (198B total parameters, ~11B activated), quantized with [NVIDIA Model Optimizer](https://github.com/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](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).**

## Model Summary

| | |
|:---|:---|
| **Architecture** | Sparse MoE vision-language model |
| **Total Parameters** | 198B (196B language backbone + 1.8B vision encoder) |
| **Activated Parameters** | ~11B |
| **Experts** | 288 routed |
| **Reasoning** | Selectable levels: low / medium / high |
| **Context Length** | 256K tokens |
| **Checkpoint Size** | ~129 GB |

## Evaluation Results

![Step 3.7 Flash benchmark results](assets/benchmarks.png)

| Benchmark | Step 3.7 Flash |
|:---|:---:|
| SimpleVQA (Search) | 79.2 |
| V* (Python) | 95.3 |
| ClawEval-1.1 | 67.1 |
| Toolathlon | 49.5 |
| HLE (w/ tool) | 48.1 |
| SWE-Bench Pro | 56.3 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 59.5 |
| GDPVal-AA | 45.8 |

> Scores are from the [Step-3.7-Flash model card](https://huggingface.co/stepfun-ai/Step-3.7-Flash) (full-precision baseline).

## Quantization Details

- **Quantization format:** NVFP4 (W4A4, group size 16) on the MoE linear layers; attention, router and vision encoder kept in higher precision
- **KV cache:** FP8
- **Tool:** [NVIDIA Model Optimizer](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer) v0.45.0

## Usage

### Deploy with SGLang

```bash
sglang serve \
    --model-path AxionML/Step-3.7-Flash-NVFP4 \
    --tp 4 --ep 4 \
    --moe-runner-backend flashinfer_trtllm \
    --kv-cache-dtype fp8_e4m3 \
    --quantization modelopt_fp4 \
    --trust-remote-code \
    --reasoning-parser step3p5 \
    --tool-call-parser step3p5 \
    --attention-backend trtllm_mha
```

### Deploy with vLLM

```bash
vllm serve AxionML/Step-3.7-Flash-NVFP4 \
    --tensor-parallel-size 4 \
    --gpu-memory-utilization 0.9 \
    --enable-expert-parallel \
    --trust-remote-code \
    --quantization modelopt \
    --kv-cache-dtype fp8 \
    --reasoning-parser step3p5 \
    --enable-auto-tool-choice \
    --tool-call-parser step3p5 \
    --async-scheduling
```

StepFun publishes prebuilt images: `lmsysorg/sglang:dev-step-3.7-flash` and `vllm/vllm-openai:stepfun37`. The NVFP4 build requires ModelOpt quantization and an FP8 KV cache.

## 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](https://huggingface.co/stepfun-ai/Step-3.7-Flash) and the [upstream quantized model card](https://huggingface.co/stepfun-ai/Step-3.7-Flash-NVFP4) for full details.

## Credits

- **Base model:** [stepfun-ai/Step-3.7-Flash](https://huggingface.co/stepfun-ai/Step-3.7-Flash)
- **Quantization:** [stepfun-ai/Step-3.7-Flash-NVFP4](https://huggingface.co/stepfun-ai/Step-3.7-Flash-NVFP4) by StepFun
- **Mirror:** [AxionML](https://huggingface.co/AxionML)