Text Generation
Transformers
Safetensors
qwen3
fp8
compressed-tensors
llm-compressor
vllm
reranker
conversational
text-generation-inference
Instructions to use DCC-BS/Qwen3-Reranker-4B-FP8-Dynamic with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use DCC-BS/Qwen3-Reranker-4B-FP8-Dynamic with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="DCC-BS/Qwen3-Reranker-4B-FP8-Dynamic") messages = [ {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"}, ] pipe(messages)# Load model directly from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("DCC-BS/Qwen3-Reranker-4B-FP8-Dynamic") model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("DCC-BS/Qwen3-Reranker-4B-FP8-Dynamic", device_map="auto") messages = [ {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"}, ] inputs = tokenizer.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=40) print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:])) - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- vLLM
How to use DCC-BS/Qwen3-Reranker-4B-FP8-Dynamic with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "DCC-BS/Qwen3-Reranker-4B-FP8-Dynamic" # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "DCC-BS/Qwen3-Reranker-4B-FP8-Dynamic", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "What is the capital of France?" } ] }'Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/DCC-BS/Qwen3-Reranker-4B-FP8-Dynamic
- SGLang
How to use DCC-BS/Qwen3-Reranker-4B-FP8-Dynamic 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 "DCC-BS/Qwen3-Reranker-4B-FP8-Dynamic" \ --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": "DCC-BS/Qwen3-Reranker-4B-FP8-Dynamic", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "What is the capital of France?" } ] }'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 "DCC-BS/Qwen3-Reranker-4B-FP8-Dynamic" \ --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": "DCC-BS/Qwen3-Reranker-4B-FP8-Dynamic", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "What is the capital of France?" } ] }' - Docker Model Runner
How to use DCC-BS/Qwen3-Reranker-4B-FP8-Dynamic with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/DCC-BS/Qwen3-Reranker-4B-FP8-Dynamic
| base_model: Qwen/Qwen3-Reranker-4B | |
| base_model_relation: quantized | |
| library_name: transformers | |
| tags: | |
| - fp8 | |
| - compressed-tensors | |
| - llm-compressor | |
| - vllm | |
| - reranker | |
| # Qwen3-Reranker-4B-FP8-Dynamic | |
| [Qwen/Qwen3-Reranker-4B](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Reranker-4B) quantised to FP8 with [llm-compressor](https://github.com/vllm-project/llm-compressor), | |
| for serving with vLLM. | |
| ## What was done | |
| | | | | |
| |---|---| | |
| | Scheme | `FP8_DYNAMIC` — weights static per-channel FP8, activations dynamic per-token FP8 | | |
| | Calibration | none needed; dynamic activation scales are computed at inference time | | |
| | Left in bf16 | `lm_head`, and the token embeddings | | |
| | Weights before | 7.49 GiB | | |
| | Weights after | 4.83 GiB (35% smaller) | | |
| The score is read from the `yes`/`no` logits of the model head, which is left in bf16. Quantising it would put error directly into the number documents are ranked by. | |
| ## Quality gate | |
| [`WikipediaRerankingMultilingual`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/WikipediaRerankingMultilingual) from MTEB — reranking Wikipedia passages in 16 languages, scored by `map_at_1000`. | |
| | language | bf16 | FP8 | Δ | | |
| |---|---|---|---| | |
| | de | 0.9600 | 0.9594 | -0.0006 | | |
| | en | 0.9715 | 0.9726 | +0.0011 | | |
| | it | 0.9710 | 0.9702 | -0.0008 | | |
| | **mean** | **0.9675** | **0.9674** | **-0.0001** | | |
| Languages evaluated: de, en, it. Tolerance: 0.0100 map_at_1000 per language. | |
| **PASSED — no language lost more than 0.0100 map_at_1000.** | |
| ## Why | |
| Serving [Qwen/Qwen3-Reranker-4B](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Reranker-4B) in bf16 leaves little room for KV cache on a small GPU: the weights take | |
| what the cache needs, and the context length has to be cut until it fits. Halving the weights | |
| gives that memory back — the same card serves a longer context without any other change. | |
| ## Serving | |
| ```bash | |
| vllm serve DCC-BS/Qwen3-Reranker-4B-FP8-Dynamic \ | |
| --max-model-len 32768 \ | |
| --gpu-memory-utilization 0.85 | |
| ``` | |
| The checkpoint is in `compressed-tensors` format, so vLLM detects the quantisation from | |
| `config.json`; no extra flag is required. | |
| FP8 arithmetic is native on Ada and Hopper (compute capability 8.9+). On Ampere it runs through | |
| Marlin: the memory saving still applies, the speed is roughly unchanged. | |