Instructions to use alibaba-pai/SearchQwen3-8B with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use alibaba-pai/SearchQwen3-8B with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="alibaba-pai/SearchQwen3-8B")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("alibaba-pai/SearchQwen3-8B")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("alibaba-pai/SearchQwen3-8B", device_map="auto")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
inputs = tokenizer.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(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:]))

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use alibaba-pai/SearchQwen3-8B with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "alibaba-pai/SearchQwen3-8B"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "alibaba-pai/SearchQwen3-8B",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/alibaba-pai/SearchQwen3-8B

SGLang

How to use alibaba-pai/SearchQwen3-8B 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 "alibaba-pai/SearchQwen3-8B" \
    --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": "alibaba-pai/SearchQwen3-8B",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

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 "alibaba-pai/SearchQwen3-8B" \
        --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": "alibaba-pai/SearchQwen3-8B",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use alibaba-pai/SearchQwen3-8B with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/alibaba-pai/SearchQwen3-8B
```

SearchQwen3-8B

SearchQwen3-8B is a compact Search Agent model from the Alibaba Cloud PAI team. It is trained with environment-aligned, solver-verified search trajectories generated by EasyDistill 2.0, and is designed for multi-hop search, browsing, and evidence integration.

SearchQwen3-8B 是基于 EasyDistill 2.0 环境对齐轨迹蒸馏链路训练的 Search Agent 小模型，支持结构化 search / browse 工具调用。

Model overview

Item	Value
Base model	Qwen/Qwen3-8B
Parameters	8.19B
Context length	40,960
Recommended interface	Structured Tool-Call
Training data	SynSearch-Data

Results

LLM-judge accuracy (%). Multi-hop QA averages 2WikiMultiHopQA, Bamboogle, HotpotQA, and MuSiQue; Deep Search averages GAIA, WebWalkerQA, xbench-deepsearch, and BrowseComp-ZH.

Interaction	Model	Deep Search	Overall
Tool-Call	Qwen3-8B	24.50	40.31
Tool-Call	SearchQwen3-8B	35.42	50.31

Quickstart

import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model_id = "alibaba-pai/SearchQwen3-8B"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    model_id,
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
    device_map="auto",
).eval()

messages = [
    {"role": "system", "content": "You are a search agent. Use tools before answering."},
    {"role": "user", "content": "Which city is the birthplace of the author of The Old Man and the Sea?"},
]
tools = [
    {
        "type": "function",
        "function": {
            "name": "search",
            "description": "Search the web.",
            "parameters": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {"query": {"type": "string"}},
                "required": ["query"],
            },
        },
    }
]

inputs = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
    messages,
    tools=tools,
    add_generation_prompt=True,
    tokenize=True,
    return_tensors="pt",
    return_dict=True,
    enable_thinking=False,
).to(model.device)

output = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=256, do_sample=False)
print(tokenizer.decode(output[0, inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:], skip_special_tokens=False))

The model returns a structured <tool_call>; execute the tool, append its response, and continue until a final answer is produced. An external search/browse backend is required.

Related resources

Framework: EasyDistill 2.0
Data: SynSearch-Data

License

This model follows the license included in this repository and the terms of its base model. Checksums are provided in SHA256SUMS.

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