Qwen3-30B-A3B-FP8
This repository contains Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-FP8
together with a Furiosa Executable Bundle (FXB) for running it on
FuriosaAI RNGD with Furiosa-LLM.
The same model also runs on other frameworks (such as vLLM, SGLang, and
Transformers); for usage with those, see the upstream
Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-FP8 model card.
Overview
Qwen3-30B-A3B is an auto-regressive Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) transformer with
30.5B total parameters of which about 3.3B are activated per token. It is a hybrid
reasoning model that supports both thinking and non-thinking modes within a single
model β switchable per request β and offers strong reasoning over text,
instruction following, multilingual coverage, and tool usage. Its intended use is
the same as the upstream Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-FP8,
and it is released under the Apache 2.0 License.
- Architecture: Qwen3-MoE (Mixture-of-Experts)
- Input / Output: Text / Text
- Supported Inference Engine: Furiosa LLM
- Supported Hardware: FuriosaAI RNGD
Quantization
Weights are quantized to FP8 (static), following the upstream FP8 release,
and activations use dynamic FP8 quantization at runtime (per-token / per-block).
The KV cache stays in 16-bit precision.
Features
- Reasoning. Qwen3-30B-A3B is a hybrid reasoning model: thinking mode is on by default and can be toggled per request via
enable_thinking. Launch the server with --reasoning-parser qwen3 to have Furiosa-LLM parse the chain of thought into a separate field (see Basic Usage below).
- Tool calling. The model supports tool (function) calling through the
hermes tool-call parser, the parser used by the Qwen3 series.
Parallelism Strategy
On RNGD, Qwen3-30B-A3B-FP8 runs with a tensor-parallel size of 32 PEs, which
maps to four RNGD cards (8 PEs per card).
Usage
To run this model with Furiosa-LLM, follow the example commands below after
installing Furiosa-LLM and its prerequisites.
Launch the server
Qwen3-30B-A3B-FP8 is a hybrid model that reasons by default and can switch
thinking on and off (see Advanced Usage). Serve it with the
qwen3 reasoning parser so the chain of thought is returned in a separate field:
To also enable tool (function) calling, add the hermes tool-call parser (the
parser used by the Qwen3 series):
When the server is ready, you will see:
Basic Usage
The server exposes an OpenAI-compatible API. You can send a request with curl:
In thinking mode, Qwen3-30B-A3B-FP8 returns its reasoning separately from the
final answer:
response.choices[].message.reasoning (non-streaming)
response.choices[].delta.reasoning (streaming)
Note: The reasoning field is not part of the OpenAI API specification but
is a widely followed convention (the OpenAI Agents SDK, vLLM, and others). It
appears only in responses that contain reasoning content; accessing it otherwise
raises an AttributeError.
Advanced Usage
Toggling thinking. Qwen3-30B-A3B-FP8 reasons by default. To turn thinking
off for a single request, pass enable_thinking through chat_template_kwargs;
the response then carries no reasoning content, so read only message.content:
To default every request to non-thinking, launch the server with
--default-chat-template-kwargs (a request can still re-enable thinking with its
own chat_template_kwargs):
Tool calling. With the server launched using
--enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser hermes (see
Launch the server), pass tools in the request and let the
model decide when to call them. See the
Tool Calling guide
for a complete client example and details on tool-choice options.
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