Qwen3-8B

Qwen3-8B: Optimized for Qualcomm Devices

The Qwen3-8B is a state-of-the-art multilingual base language model with 8 billion parameters, excelling in language understanding, generation, coding, and mathematics.

This is based on the implementation of Qwen3-8B found here. This repository contains pre-exported model files optimized for Qualcomm® devices. You can use the Qualcomm® AI Hub Models library to export with custom configurations. More details on model performance across various devices, can be found here.

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Deploying Qwen3-8B on-device

Follow the GenieX quickstart to install GenieX and deploy the model on a target device.

See the LLM-on-Genie tutorial to run with the Genie runtime. Note: Genie support will be deprecated soon.

Getting Started

There are two ways to deploy this model on your device:

Option 1: Download Pre-Exported Models

Below are pre-exported model assets ready for deployment.

For more device-specific assets and performance metrics, visit Qwen3-8B on Qualcomm® AI Hub.

Option 2: Export with Custom Configurations

Use the Qualcomm® AI Hub Models Python library to compile and export the model with your own:

• Custom weights (e.g., fine-tuned checkpoints)
• Custom input shapes
• Target device and runtime configurations

This option is ideal if you need to customize the model beyond the default configuration provided here.

See our repository for Qwen3-8B on GitHub for usage instructions.

Model Details

Model Type: Model_use_case.text_generation

Model Stats:

• Response Rate: Rate of response generation after the first response token. Measured on a short prompt with a long response (with thinking); may slow down when using longer context lengths.
• Supported languages: 100+ languages and dialects.
• TTFT: Time To First Token is the time it takes to generate the first response token. This is expressed as a range because it varies based on the length of the prompt. The lower bound is for a short prompt (up to 128 tokens, i.e., one iteration of the prompt processor) and the upper bound is for a prompt using the full context length (4096 tokens).

Performance Summary

License

• The license for the original implementation of Qwen3-8B can be found here.

References

• Qwen3 Technical Report
• Source Model Implementation

Community

• Join our AI Hub Slack community to collaborate, post questions and learn more about on-device AI.
• For questions or feedback please reach out to us.

Usage and Limitations

This model may not be used for or in connection with any of the following applications:

• Accessing essential private and public services and benefits;
• Administration of justice and democratic processes;
• Assessing or recognizing the emotional state of a person;
• Biometric and biometrics-based systems, including categorization of persons based on sensitive characteristics;
• Education and vocational training;
• Employment and workers management;
• Exploitation of the vulnerabilities of persons resulting in harmful behavior;
• General purpose social scoring;
• Law enforcement;
• Management and operation of critical infrastructure;
• Migration, asylum and border control management;
• Predictive policing;
• Real-time remote biometric identification in public spaces;
• Recommender systems of social media platforms;
• Scraping of facial images (from the internet or otherwise); and/or
• Subliminal manipulation