Instructions to use Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B")
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("Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B")
model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B")
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]:]))

Inference
HuggingChat
Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
AMD Developer Cloud
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B",
		"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/Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B

SGLang

How to use Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B 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 "Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B" \
    --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": "Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B",
		"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 "Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B" \
        --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": "Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B",
		"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 Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B
```

Great model, please release ~16B model with FP8

by Duonglv - opened Apr 23

Discussion

Duonglv

Apr 23

Hello,
27B dense model is so great. Could you please train a 16B dense model with FP8?
16B model has ~16G vRam for weights, so it fit well in 32G vRam ( 2 gpus with 16G each).
Many thanks.

Duonglv changed discussion title from Great model, please release 16B model with FP8 to Great model, please release ~16B model with FP8 Apr 23

jesleocizi

Apr 23

I think you will fit if you use gguf. Not sure if the rule is still correct, but using a model with more knowledge in lower precision is always better than less parameters in bf16/bf8, but avoid 1-bits.

Duonglv

Apr 23

If so, a 27B model with 4 bit quantization may be better than 16B model FP8.
There are many people/group that provides quantized models, it’s worth to try or use. However, an offical quantized model from Qwen team with sufficicent evaluations is best.
Hope that Qwen team will officially release 27B model with 4 bit, such as AWQ INT4,…
I use vLLM, so gguf isn’t suitable.
I think that we can train models to fit well in 4G, 8G, 16G, 32G or 64G,…

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