# qwen36-vl — Qwen3.6-35B-A3B vision-language MoE (official NVFP4) on fv-ml1. # # Replaces the qwen35-vl stack (Qwen3.5-9B) 2026-06-14. Co-located on GPU 1 with # the granite summarizer + embed/rerank/reward trio. Serves on :8007. # # WHY NVFP4 now (swapped FROM FP8 2026-06-15): the nvidia ModelOpt NVFP4 MoE that # was BROKEN on vLLM 0.19.1/0.22.0 (#44081, lm_head.input_scale) loads clean on # 0.23.0 — the ModelOpt lm_head fix landed. So we cut FP8→NVFP4: ~20.4 GiB weights # vs FP8's ~34 GiB (~40% lighter, ~13 GB reclaimed on GPU 1), faster single-stream # on Blackwell's FP4 tensor cores, and the freed room funds fp16 KV + a granite # context restore (see the rebalance note below). The NVFP4 checkpoint preserves # the vision tower (ModelOpt leaves it high-precision) — VALIDATED by comfy-dev's # real anatomy-judge A/B on 16 prod images: PASS, holds the load-bearing # discrimination (gross-deformity reject + clean-pass), only shuffles already- # unreliable sub-ceiling borderline-hand calls. brokkr's text/speed arm: parity # except a minor multi-step chained-numeric-reasoning slip (W4A4 tell) — doesn't # bite the vision-judge role; flag for any gateway consumer doing chained math. # Requires vLLM >= 0.23.0 (pinned by digest in .env). NO --quantization flag # (vLLM auto-detects the checkpoint's NVFP4). # # NAMING: served ONLY as its TRUE name `qwen3.6-35b-a3b`. A model is never aliased # under a prior model's name — a caller asking for `qwen3.5-9b-fp8` (a 9B dense) # must NOT be silently handed this 35B-A3B MoE; that's a downstream-confusion # footgun. The legacy `qwen3.5-9b-fp8` name is RETIRED. Consumers (Arbo's vision # hero-judge, stacks/arbo v0.11.3+) migrate to `qwen3.6-35b-a3b` — they 404 on the # old name until they repoint, which is the correct loud signal (notified 2026-06-14). # # GPU-1 REBALANCE (2026-06-15, pinned): the NVFP4 swap freed ~13 GB, redistributed — # qwen36 NVFP4: util 0.46→0.32 (~31 GB: 20.4 GB weights + fp16 KV + graph). # fp16 KV (we DROPPED --kv-cache-dtype fp8) — the freed room buys back full- # precision KV; hybrid attn (10/40 full-attn) keeps even fp16 KV affordable. # granite: RESTORED 0.24→0.34, max-len 65536→131072 (gives back the context # sacrificed for FP8 qwen — the FP8-vs-maxed-granite tradeoff is now undone). # trio (embed/rerank/reward) unchanged at floor. # Total GPU-1 util ~0.82 → ~17 GB headroom (was a tight ~5 GB). # # THINKING TOGGLE: this is ONE hybrid checkpoint (not separate Instruct/Thinking # downloads) with a Qwen3-style per-request `enable_thinking` switch. The chat # template defaults thinking ON (`\n`); passing # `chat_template_kwargs={"enable_thinking":false}` emits the empty # `\n\n\n\n` block (no reasoning). We run --reasoning-parser qwen3 # (model-matched — its vLLM docstring describes THIS checkpoint) so ONE endpoint # serves BOTH modes cleanly: thinking-ON splits … into # reasoning_content; thinking-OFF routes everything to content. The gateway # selects the mode per model_name (stacks/litellm/conf/config.yaml): # qwen3.6-35b-a3b → enable_thinking:false (non-thinking DEFAULT) # qwen3.6-35b-a3b-thinking → enable_thinking:true (opt-in reasoning) # # All tunables live in .env — edit that, not this file. name: qwen36-vl services: vllm-qwen36: image: ${QWEN_IMAGE} container_name: ${QWEN_CONTAINER_NAME} restart: unless-stopped ipc: host ports: - "${QWEN_PORT}:8000" volumes: - /tank/aimodels/huggingface:/hfcache environment: - HF_HOME=/hfcache - HF_HUB_CACHE=/hfcache/hub - HUGGING_FACE_HUB_TOKEN=${HF_TOKEN:-} - VLLM_API_KEY=${API_KEY:-} command: - ${QWEN_MODEL} # Pre-quantized NVFP4 (ModelOpt) checkpoint → NO --quantization (vLLM auto- # detects; the vision tower is left high-precision by the producer). - --served-model-name - qwen3.6-35b-a3b - --host - 0.0.0.0 - --port - "8000" - --gpu-memory-utilization - ${QWEN_GPU_MEM_UTIL} - --max-model-len - ${QWEN_MAX_MODEL_LEN} # Cap concurrency: vLLM warms the sampler with max_num_seqs dummy requests, # and this model's 248K vocab makes that warmup tensor huge — the default # 1024 OOMs on a shared GPU even though weights+KV fit. 32 is ample for a # vision endpoint (the summarizer carries the concurrency, not this). - --max-num-seqs - ${QWEN_MAX_NUM_SEQS} # fp16 KV (no --kv-cache-dtype): the NVFP4 swap freed enough room to run # full-precision KV — better than the fp8 KV the FP8 build needed to fit. - --trust-remote-code - --dtype - auto - --enable-prefix-caching # Model-matched reasoning parser for the hybrid thinking toggle (see header). # Splits … into reasoning_content when thinking is ON; routes # all output to content when the empty think-block signals thinking OFF — so # this single :8007 endpoint serves both the non-thinking default and the # qwen3.6-35b-a3b-thinking gateway variant. - --reasoning-parser - qwen3 deploy: resources: reservations: devices: - driver: nvidia device_ids: - "${QWEN_GPU_ID}" capabilities: - gpu healthcheck: test: ["CMD", "curl", "-f", "http://localhost:8000/health"] interval: 30s timeout: 10s retries: 3 start_period: 300s networks: - tnet labels: - homepage.group=AI Systems - homepage.name=Qwen3.6-35B-A3B VL (NVFP4) - homepage.icon=mdi-image-search - homepage.description=Qwen3.6-35B-A3B vision-language MoE (NVFP4) via vLLM (fv-ml1) - homepage.href=http://10.251.50.54:${QWEN_PORT}/docs networks: tnet: name: traefik-net external: true