Qwen3-0.6B — INT4 · LiteRT-LM
On-device INT4 builds of Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B
in the .litertlm format for Google's
LiteRT-LM runtime
(Android / iOS / desktop / embedded).
At ~332 MB each (≈7× smaller than the fp32 source), these load fast and keep a
small memory footprint on phones.
Two flavours — pick your thinking behaviour
Qwen3 is a hybrid reasoning model. Because LiteRT-LM bakes the prompt format
into the file, the thinking mode is fixed per file, so this repo ships both:
- The standard file embeds Qwen3's Jinja chat template (faithful ChatML; if
your runtime can pass
enable_thinking, it stays controllable).
- The no-think file prefills a closed empty
<think></think> into the
assistant turn, so the model answers directly. This was built for a wearable
health-assistant where a phone streams short replies to a watch.
Build details
Converted with litert-torch
(the generative API, formerly ai-edge-torch) from the original PyTorch checkpoint.
Multiple prefill signatures matter for latency: with a single large signature
every prompt is padded to it. The exponential set above lets a short prompt run
a tiny prefill instead of always paying the 1024-token cost.
Prompt format
Standard Qwen3 ChatML. The no-think file pre-closes thinking on the
assistant side:
Usage (LiteRT-LM, Android / Kotlin)
Stop tokens and the prompt format are embedded in each file — no extra runtime
configuration required. With the standard (thinking-on) file you may want to
strip the leading <think>…</think> block before display.
Reproduce
Training data, provenance & privacy
This is a format/precision conversion only — no fine-tuning or additional
training was performed. Weights and behaviour are inherited directly from
Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B; see the
Qwen3 technical report for that model's
pretraining data.
No new training data was introduced by this contribution, so there is no
additional dataset to summarise. Because no data was collected or used here,
there is no PII involved in this submission — the conversion operates purely
on the public base-model weights and tokenizer.
Intended use & limitations
- Use: offline assistants on phones / edge devices — chat, summaries, simple
Q&A over provided context.
- No-think file: not for complex multi-step reasoning or math (thinking is
off). Use the standard file or a larger Qwen3 for that.
- Quantization: INT4 introduces some quality loss vs the fp32/INT8 source.
- Inherits the capabilities, biases, and limitations of
Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B.
License
Apache 2.0, inherited from Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B.
Acknowledgements