Instructions to use RedHatAI/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-NVFP4 with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use RedHatAI/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-NVFP4 with Transformers:

# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="RedHatAI/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-NVFP4")
messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"},
            {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"}
        ]
    },
]
pipe(text=messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForMultimodalLM

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("RedHatAI/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-NVFP4")
model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("RedHatAI/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-NVFP4", device_map="auto")
messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"},
            {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"}
        ]
    },
]
inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(
	messages,
	add_generation_prompt=True,
	tokenize=True,
	return_dict=True,
	return_tensors="pt",
).to(model.device)

outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=40)
print(processor.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:]))

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use RedHatAI/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-NVFP4 with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "RedHatAI/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-NVFP4"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "RedHatAI/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-NVFP4",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/RedHatAI/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-NVFP4

SGLang

How to use RedHatAI/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-NVFP4 with SGLang:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install SGLang from pip:
pip install sglang
# Start the SGLang server:
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
    --model-path "RedHatAI/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-NVFP4" \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "RedHatAI/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-NVFP4",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker images

docker run --gpus all \
    --shm-size 32g \
    -p 30000:30000 \
    -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
    --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \
    --ipc=host \
    lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
    python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
        --model-path "RedHatAI/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-NVFP4" \
        --host 0.0.0.0 \
        --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "RedHatAI/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-NVFP4",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use RedHatAI/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-NVFP4 with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/RedHatAI/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-NVFP4
```

RedHatAI/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-NVFP4

Model Overview

Model Architecture: Qwen4ExpForConditionalGeneration
- Input: Text / Image / Video
- Output: Text
Model Optimizations:
- Weight quantization: FP4
- Activation quantization: FP4
Release Date: 2026-08-27
Version: 1.0
Model Developers: RedHatAI

This model is a quantized version of Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next. It was evaluated to assess its quality in comparison to the unquantized model.

Model Optimizations

This model was obtained by quantizing the weights and activations of the Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) experts in Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next to NVFP4 (FP4) data type, ready for inference with vLLM.

This reduces the per-weight precision of the MoE expert parameters from 16 to 4 bits, substantially reducing their memory and disk footprint, while the rest of the model is kept in its original BF16 precision.

Only the weights and activations of the MoE expert linear operators are quantized using LLM Compressor.

Deployment

vLLM Serving

vllm serve RedHatAI/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-NVFP4 \
  --tensor-parallel-size 4 \
  --enable-auto-tool-choice \
  --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder \
  --reasoning-parser qwen3

Adjust the tensor-parallel size and other hardware-specific settings to your deployment — see the vLLM recipe for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next.

Creation

This model was created by applying LLM Compressor with calibration samples from open-perfectblend (1024 samples).

Evaluation

This model was evaluated on GPQA Diamond, a scientific reasoning benchmark, served with vLLM (OpenAI-compatible API) and compared against the unquantized Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next baseline.

Accuracy

Category	Benchmark	Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next	RedHatAI/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-NVFP4	Recovery
Reasoning	GPQA Diamond (0-shot)	91.7	90.9	99.13%

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Model size

180B params

Tensor type

BF16

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