Qwen3-0.6B-Code-Expert-LiteRT

Qwen3-0.6B-Code-Expert — LiteRT-LM (int8)

suayptalha/Qwen3-0.6B-Code-Expert, a full fine-tune of Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B on nvidia/OpenCodeReasoning by its author (suayptalha), converted to the .litertlm format for Google's LiteRT-LM runtime. It is the representative model of the recipe How do I run a fine-tuned Hugging Face model on iPhone?: a community fine-tune under 1B parameters, Apache-2.0, converted with one command and loaded in an iOS app through swift-litert-lm.

2026-09-21: chat template updated to accept the 0.18 content-parts form (string form unchanged); weights, tokenizer and executor metadata byte-identical.

How it was made

git clone https://github.com/john-rocky/hf-to-litertlm && cd hf-to-litertlm
pip install litert-torch ai-edge-quantizer "transformers==5.14.*" huggingface_hub litert-lm
python scripts/convert.py suayptalha/Qwen3-0.6B-Code-Expert     # 217 s on a Mac Studio M4 Max

Stock litert-torch 0.9.3 export (ai-edge-quantizer 0.8.0, transformers 5.14.1, litert-lm-builder 0.15.0), 2026-09-05. The converter's exit gate asks 8 fixed questions through the runtime: this bundle answered 7 of 8 with no degenerate output (the miss: "Roses are red, violets are ___" answered "violet"); median decode during the gate 138 tok/s on the Mac GPU.

Run it

Desktop, with the LiteRT-LM CLI (macOS, Linux, Windows):

pip install litert-lm
litert-lm run --from-huggingface-repo mlboydaisuke/Qwen3-0.6B-Code-Expert-LiteRT model.litertlm \
  --prompt "What is 17 + 25? Answer briefly." --thinking false --temperature 0 --top-k 1
# 17 + 25 = 42

Keep --thinking false when you sample greedily. With thinking on and --temperature 0 --top-k 1 the same prompt looped on "17 + 25." inside the thought channel for 128 s and never answered; the Qwen3 model card says not to use greedy decoding in thinking mode. With the CLI's default sampler and thinking on (litert-lm 0.17.0), the model thought for one paragraph and answered 17 + 25 = 42.

iOS, in an existing app, through swift-litert-lm (the same runtime, Metal GPU):

import LiteRTFoundation
let chat = try await LiteRTChat(
  huggingFaceRepo: "mlboydaisuke/Qwen3-0.6B-Code-Expert-LiteRT", fileName: "model.litertlm",
  modalities: [])                       // text-only: no vision or audio tower
for try await delta in chat.stream("What is 17 + 25? Answer briefly.") { print(delta, terminator: "") }

Dependency, stop, release and the verify command are in the recipe.

Android: the file is the format Google AI Edge Gallery imports; not tested on Android here.

Measured (2026-09-05)

Mac Studio, Apple M4 Max, 128 GB, macOS 27.0, prompt "What is 17 + 25? Answer briefly.", reply 17 + 25 = 42 in every row:

Known limits

• One turn per conversation on the v0.15.0 Swift binaries. A second message on the same LiteRT-LM conversation fails with INTERNAL: The new rendered template string does not start with the previous rendered template string, with thinking off and on, GPU and CPU. This is LiteRT-LM#3443: the Qwen3 chat template renders the trailing assistant turn differently once the next message is appended, and the engine requires a byte-prefix match. Workaround: a new conversation per turn with the history in the prompt. Multi-turn on the CLI is not established either way.
• Greedy decoding with thinking on loops (see above). Use the sampler the Qwen3 card recommends for thinking mode (temperature 0.6, top-p 0.95, top-k 20) or turn thinking off.
• Not verified: any iPhone (the recipe's device row is pending), Android, and the converter's --int4 recipe.

Provenance

• Converted and verified by: john-rocky (GitHub) / mlboydaisuke (Hugging Face)
• Recipe: https://github.com/john-rocky/swift-litert-lm/blob/main/docs/recipe-hf-finetune-to-iphone.md
• Measurements: https://github.com/john-rocky/swift-litert-lm/blob/main/docs/recipe-hf-finetune-to-iphone.md#7-verified--unverified (Mac Studio M4 Max, 2026-09-05)
• Commit: john-rocky/hf-to-litertlm@5ffe9ee (converter); john-rocky/swift-litert-lm@09f04f1 (Swift runs)
• Maintained at: https://github.com/john-rocky/swift-litert-lm/issues

License

Apache-2.0, inherited from the fine-tune (its card metadata declares Apache-2.0) and from Qwen3-0.6B. The weights are the fine-tune author's work quantized to int8; nothing else was changed. Qwen3 is by the Qwen team at Alibaba Cloud. This is an independent conversion, not affiliated with the model author, Alibaba, or Google.