Qwen3.5-4B-NVFP4-MIXED

Qwen3.5 4B — NVFP4 for veloGB10 (NVIDIA DGX Spark / GB10)

Original model: Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B by Alibaba's Qwen team, Apache-2.0. This artifact contains modified weights (NVFP4/FP8 quantization); the original model is © its authors.

NVFP4/FP8-quantized variant of Qwen3.5 4B (4B). This quantized artifact exists first and foremost to run with the veloGB10 inference engine (gb10_inference) on NVIDIA DGX Spark / GB10 systems — it is produced, validated, and tuned for veloGB10's kernels. The weights use the standard HuggingFace compressed-tensors layout (nvfp4-pack-quantized), so this artifact can be used for any purpose, with any framework that reads the format. It is in particular fit and proven to work with veloGB10 — greedy-lossless speculative decoding, two-node TP=2 serving, and the engine's full correctness test suite all pass on this artifact.

Specifications

Running with veloGB10

Full instructions: veloGB10 README (build or download a release binary, then). The binary loads its PTX kernel artifacts from the current directory — run it from wherever the binary + *.ptx live.

Single user — maximum speed:

gb10_inference --server --model-dir=/path/to/Qwen3.5-4B-NVFP4-MIXED --port=9000 \
  --max-seq-len=32768 --max-batch=1 --max-tokens=4096 \
  --prefix-cache=on --mtp=auto --default-presence-penalty 1.5

Four concurrent users — maximum aggregate throughput:

gb10_inference --server --model-dir=/path/to/Qwen3.5-4B-NVFP4-MIXED --port=9000 \
  --max-seq-len=32768 --max-batch=4 --max-tokens=4096 \
  --mtp-lanes=on --prefix-cache=on --default-presence-penalty 1.5

(--mtp-lanes=on packs the concurrent greedy lanes into one batched verify forward — the concurrency win; lossless. The scheduler handles the rest automatically.)

Two-node TP=2 (maximum speed and capacity):

On the second node (no model copy, no configuration — the head ships weights, config, and calibration at sync):

gb10_inference --node --port 29500

On the head node:

GB10_TP_SHARD_MIXERS=1 gb10_inference --server --model-dir=/path/to/Qwen3.5-4B-NVFP4-MIXED \
  --tp --nodes <peer-ip>:29500 --port 9000 \
  --max-seq-len=32768 --max-batch=1 --max-tokens=4096 \
  --prefix-cache=on --default-presence-penalty 1.5

Measured on veloGB10 (greedy, NVFP4)

• Single node: 112.2 / 99.3 / 97.2 tok/s @ 0 / 4K / 8K ctx (TTFT 0.68 / 1.88 / 3.29 s)
• TP=2: 111.5 / 115.4 / 112.9 tok/s @ 0 / 4K / 8K ctx — unoptimized at this size: barriers dominate — marginal decode gain at depth, ~4× slower TTFT. Single-node is the practical way to run this model.

Throughput measured with tool-eval-bench --perf and veloGB10's built-in benchmarks; see the veloGB10 README for the full, current tables.

License & credits

• Original model: Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B — © Alibaba Qwen team, Apache License 2.0. A copy of the license is included in this repository (LICENSE).
• This artifact: quantized from the original with veloGB10's offline quantizer (nvfp4-mixed). Weights are modified relative to the original; tokenizer and chat template are unchanged from the original model.
• Engine: veloGB10 (Apache-2.0).