--- license: apache-2.0 language: - en - fr - es - it - pt - zh - ar - ru library_name: transformers pipeline_tag: text-generation base_model: HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B base_model_relation: quantized tags: - glq - quantization - trellis - tcq --- # SmolLM3-3B — GLQ 3bpw **GLQ (3.0 bits/weight)** quantization of [`HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B`](https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B) using a **trellis-coded codebook (QTIP TCQ) + randomized Hadamard transform (RHT) + LDLQ**. Weights stay compressed in memory and are decoded on the fly by a fused CUDA kernel. > **Where GLQ shines:** the size-vs-accuracy win is strongest at **2–4 bits/weight**. For even more headroom, combine it with the **E8 KV cache** (≈4× smaller KV cache → longer context in the same VRAM). - **Base model:** [`HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B`](https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B) - **Method:** trellis-coded quantization (QTIP TCQ, `3inst` variant) + RHT + LDLQ — 3.0 bpw uniform (native trellis rate — one decode pass, no residual stacking) - **Avg weight SQNR:** 16.19 dB over 252 quantized layers - **Calibration:** 128 samples × 2048 tokens (WikiText-2) ## Install ```bash pip install glq ``` > **Requires `glq >= 0.7.0`** — this checkpoint stores the trellis in the kernel > (MMA-fragment) layout that the lookup-free 3INST CUDA kernels consume. ## Use with vLLM (recommended) ```python from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams def main(): llm = LLM( model="xv0y5ncu/SmolLM3-3B-trellis-3inst-3bpw", quantization="glq", dtype="bfloat16", max_model_len=4096, ) out = llm.generate(["The capital city of New Zealand is"], SamplingParams(max_tokens=64, temperature=0)) print(out[0].outputs[0].text) # The __main__ guard is REQUIRED when running this as a script. vLLM switches to the # "spawn" multiprocessing start method once CUDA is initialised, so its worker processes # re-import this file; without the guard the script spawns itself recursively and dies # with "An attempt has been made to start a new process before the current process has # finished its bootstrapping phase" — before the model ever loads. if __name__ == "__main__": main() ``` `glq` registers with vLLM automatically via its plugin entry point — no extra import needed. ## Use with Transformers ```python import glq.hf_integration # registers the GLQ quantization method from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer import torch model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained( "xv0y5ncu/SmolLM3-3B-trellis-3inst-3bpw", device_map="cuda", dtype=torch.bfloat16) tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("xv0y5ncu/SmolLM3-3B-trellis-3inst-3bpw") msgs = [{"role": "user", "content": "What is the capital city of New Zealand?"}] ids = tok.apply_chat_template(msgs, add_generation_prompt=True, return_tensors="pt").to("cuda") print(tok.decode(model.generate(ids, max_new_tokens=64)[0][ids.shape[1]:], skip_special_tokens=True)) ``` ## Use with coding agents (pi-code, opencode) Serve an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, then point your agent at it: ```bash vllm serve xv0y5ncu/SmolLM3-3B-trellis-3inst-3bpw --port 8000 ``` **pi-code** — `~/.pi/agent/models.json`: ```json { "providers": { "glq": { "baseUrl": "http://localhost:8000/v1", "api": "openai-completions", "apiKey": "glq", "models": [ { "id": "xv0y5ncu/SmolLM3-3B-trellis-3inst-3bpw" } ] } } } ``` **opencode** — `~/.config/opencode/opencode.json`: ```json { "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json", "provider": { "glq": { "npm": "@ai-sdk/openai-compatible", "name": "GLQ (local vLLM)", "options": { "baseURL": "http://localhost:8000/v1", "apiKey": "glq" }, "models": { "xv0y5ncu/SmolLM3-3B-trellis-3inst-3bpw": { "name": "SmolLM3-3B-trellis-3inst-3bpw" } } } } } ``` ## Smaller KV cache (E8) — long context in the same VRAM GLQ also ships an **E8-quantized KV cache** (~4× smaller than fp16, ~bit-identical at 4-bit). Enable it at serve time: ```bash GLQ_KV_QUANT=e8_relaxed:2 \ GLQ_KV_E8_SIDECAR=1 GLQ_KV_E8_SIDECAR_READ=1 GLQ_KV_E8_COMPRESSED_ALLOC=1 \ GLQ_KV_E8_FUSED_GATHER=1 GLQ_KV_E8_FUSED_WRITE=1 \ vllm serve xv0y5ncu/SmolLM3-3B-trellis-3inst-3bpw ``` `e8_relaxed:2` ≈ 4-bit KV, `:1` ≈ 2-bit, `:3` ≈ 6-bit. This is the part of GLQ that keeps paying off **above** 4-bit weights. ## Benchmarks | Benchmark | Metric | GLQ 3bpw | |---|---|---| | wikitext2_ppl | perplexity (n=128) | 9.5901 (bf16 9.1071) | *Single-run measurements; small-n results are noisy estimates. Setup details per row.* ## How GLQ works A **randomized Hadamard transform** (a fixed random sign-flip + Hadamard rotation on each side) makes the weights and the calibration Hessian *incoherent* — spreading outliers so they quantize well. **LDLQ** then rounds the weights with error feedback across the remaining input dimensions via the Hessian's LDL factorization. Instead of a per-group lattice codebook, GLQ here uses **trellis-coded quantization** (TCQ, from [QTIP](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11235)): each 16×16 weight tile is encoded as a **tail-biting Viterbi sequence over a dimension-256 trellis code**, reaching a higher effective quantization dimension than an 8-D lattice at the same bit-rate. Decoding is a small look-up plus a few arithmetic ops per weight; a fused CUDA kernel keeps the weights compressed in VRAM and decodes them inline. The "Golay/Leech" in the project name refers to the lattice codebooks GLQ also ships (E8 and its higher-dimensional cousins). Code, kernels and quantizer: **[GLQ on GitHub](https://github.com/cnygaard/glq)**. ---
Original model card (HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B) # SmolLM3 ![image/png](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/61c141342aac764ce1654e43/zy0dqTCCt5IHmuzwoqtJ9.png) ## Table of Contents 1. [Model Summary](#model-summary) 2. [How to use](#how-to-use) 3. [Evaluation](#evaluation) 4. [Training](#training) 5. [Limitations](#limitations) 6. [License](#license) ## Model Summary SmolLM3 is a 3B parameter language model designed to push the boundaries of small models. It supports dual mode reasoning, 6 languages and long context. SmolLM3 is a fully open model that offers strong performance at the 3B–4B scale. ![image/png](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/6200d0a443eb0913fa2df7cc/db3az7eGzs-Sb-8yUj-ff.png) The model is a decoder-only transformer using GQA and NoPE (with 3:1 ratio), it was pretrained on 11.2T tokens with a staged curriculum of web, code, math and reasoning data. Post-training included midtraining on 140B reasoning tokens followed by supervised fine-tuning and alignment via Anchored Preference Optimization (APO). ### Key features - Instruct model optimized for **hybrid reasoning** - **Fully open model**: open weights + full training details including public data mixture and training configs - **Long context:** Trained on 64k context and supports up to **128k tokens** using YARN extrapolation - **Multilingual**: 6 natively supported (English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, and Portuguese) For more details refer to our blog post: https://hf.co/blog/smollm3 ## How to use The modeling code for SmolLM3 is available in transformers `v4.53.0`, so make sure to upgrade your transformers version. You can also load the model with the latest `vllm` which uses transformers as a backend. ```bash pip install -U transformers ``` ```python from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer model_name = "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B" device = "cuda" # for GPU usage or "cpu" for CPU usage # load the tokenizer and the model tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name) model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained( model_name, ).to(device) # prepare the model input prompt = "Give me a brief explanation of gravity in simple terms." messages_think = [ {"role": "user", "content": prompt} ] text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template( messages_think, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True, ) model_inputs = tokenizer([text], return_tensors="pt").to(model.device) # Generate the output generated_ids = model.generate(**model_inputs, max_new_tokens=32768) # Get and decode the output output_ids = generated_ids[0][len(model_inputs.input_ids[0]) :] print(tokenizer.decode(output_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)) ``` >[!TIP] > We recommend setting `temperature=0.6` and `top_p=0.95` in the sampling parameters. ### Long context processing The current `config.json` is set for context length up to 65,536 tokens. To handle longer inputs (128k or 256k), we utilize YaRN you can change the `max_position_embeddings` and rope_scaling` to: ``` { ..., "rope_scaling": { "factor": 2.0, #2x65536=131 072 "original_max_position_embeddings": 65536, "type": "yarn" } } ``` ### Enabling and Disabling Extended Thinking Mode We enable extended thinking by default, so the example above generates the output with a reasoning trace. For choosing between enabling, you can provide the `/think` and `/no_think` flags through the system prompt as shown in the snippet below for extended thinking disabled. The code for generating the response with extended thinking would be the same except that the system prompt should have `/think` instead of `/no_think`. ```python prompt = "Give me a brief explanation of gravity in simple terms." messages = [ {"role": "system", "content": "/no_think"}, {"role": "user", "content": prompt} ] text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template( messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True, ) ``` We also provide the option of specifying the whether to use extended thinking through the `enable_thinking` kwarg as in the example below. You do not need to set the `/no_think` or `/think` flags through the system prompt if using the kwarg, but keep in mind that the flag in the system prompt overwrites the setting in the kwarg. ```python prompt = "Give me a brief explanation of gravity in simple terms." messages = [ {"role": "user", "content": prompt} ] text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template( messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True, enable_thinking=False ) ``` ### Agentic Usage SmolLM3 supports tool calling! Just pass your list of tools: - Under the argument `xml_tools` for standard tool-calling: these tools will be called as JSON blobs within XML tags, like `{"name": "get_weather", "arguments": {"city": "Copenhagen"}}` - Or under `python_tools`: then the model will call tools like python functions in a `` snippet, like `get_weather(city="Copenhagen")` ```python from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer checkpoint = "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B" tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(checkpoint) model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(checkpoint) tools = [ { "name": "get_weather", "description": "Get the weather in a city", "parameters": {"type": "object", "properties": {"city": {"type": "string", "description": "The city to get the weather for"}}}} ] messages = [ { "role": "user", "content": "Hello! How is the weather today in Copenhagen?" } ] inputs = tokenizer.apply_chat_template( messages, enable_thinking=False, # True works as well, your choice! xml_tools=tools, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=True, return_tensors="pt" ) outputs = model.generate(inputs) print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0])) ``` ### Using Custom System Instructions. You can specify custom instruction through the system prompt while controlling whether to use extended thinking. For example, the snippet below shows how to make the model speak like a pirate while enabling extended thinking. ```python prompt = "Give me a brief explanation of gravity in simple terms." messages = [ {"role": "system", "content": "Speak like a pirate./think"}, {"role": "user", "content": prompt} ] text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template( messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True, ) ``` For local inference, you can use `llama.cpp`, `ONNX`, `MLX`, `MLC` and `ExecuTorch`. You can find quantized checkpoints in this collection (https://huggingface.co/collections/HuggingFaceTB/smollm3-686d33c1fdffe8e635317e23) ### vLLM and SGLang You can use vLLM and SGLang to deploy the model in an API compatible with OpenAI format. #### SGLang ```bash python -m sglang.launch_server --model-path HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B ``` #### vLLM ```bash vllm serve HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser=hermes ``` #### Setting `chat_template_kwargs` You can specify `chat_template_kwargs` such as `enable_thinking` to a deployed model by passing the `chat_template_kwargs` parameter in the API request. ```bash curl http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{ "model": "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B", "messages": [ {"role": "user", "content": "Give me a brief explanation of gravity in simple terms."} ], "temperature": 0.6, "top_p": 0.95, "max_tokens": 16384, "chat_template_kwargs": {"enable_thinking": false} }' ``` ## Evaluation In this section, we report the evaluation results of SmolLM3 model. All evaluations are zero-shot unless stated otherwise, and we use [lighteval](https://github.com/huggingface/lighteval) to run them. We highlight the best score in bold and underline the second-best score. ### Instruction Model #### No Extended Thinking Evaluation results of non reasoning models and reasoning models in no thinking mode. We highlight the best and second-best scores in bold. | Category | Metric | SmoLLM3-3B | Qwen2.5-3B | Llama3.1-3B | Qwen3-1.7B | Qwen3-4B | |---------|--------|------------|------------|-------------|------------|----------| | High school math competition | AIME 2025 | 9.3 | 2.9 | 0.3 | 8.0 | **17.1** | | Math problem-solving | GSM-Plus | 72.8 | 74.1 | 59.2 | 68.3 | **82.1** | | Competitive programming | LiveCodeBench v4 | 15.2 | 10.5 | 3.4 | 15.0 | **24.9** | | Graduate-level reasoning | GPQA Diamond | 35.7 | 32.2 | 29.4 | 31.8 | **44.4** | | Instruction following | IFEval | **76.7** | 65.6 | 71.6 | 74.0 | 68.9 | | Alignment | MixEval Hard | 26.9 | 27.6 | 24.9 | 24.3 | **31.6** | | Tool Calling | BFCL| 92.3 | - | 92.3 * | 89.5 | **95.0** | | Multilingual Q&A | Global MMLU | 53.5 | 50.54 | 46.8 | 49.5 | **65.1** | (*): this is a tool calling finetune #### Extended Thinking Evaluation results in reasoning mode for SmolLM3 and Qwen3 models: | Category | Metric | SmoLLM3-3B | Qwen3-1.7B | Qwen3-4B | |---------|--------|------------|------------|----------| | High school math competition | AIME 2025 | 36.7 | 30.7 | **58.8** | | Math problem-solving | GSM-Plus | 83.4 | 79.4 | **88.2** | | Competitive programming | LiveCodeBench v4 | 30.0 | 34.4 | **52.9** | | Graduate-level reasoning | GPQA Diamond | 41.7 | 39.9 | **55.3** | | Instruction following | IFEval | 71.2 | 74.2 | **85.4** | | Alignment | MixEval Hard | 30.8 | 33.9 | **38.0** | | Tool Calling | BFCL | 88.8 | 88.8 | **95.5** | | Multilingual Q&A | Global MMLU | 64.1 | 62.3 | **73.3** | ### Base Pre-Trained Model #### English benchmarks Note: All evaluations are zero-shot unless stated otherwise. For Ruler 64k evaluation, we apply YaRN to the Qwen models with 32k context to extrapolate the context length. | Category | Metric | SmolLM3-3B | Qwen2.5-3B | Llama3-3.2B | Qwen3-1.7B-Base | Qwen3-4B-Base | |---------|--------|---------------------|------------|--------------|------------------|---------------| | Reasoning & Commonsense| HellaSwag | **76.15** | 74.19 |75.52 | 60.52 | 74.37 | | | ARC-CF (Average) | **65.61** | 59.81 | 58.58 | 55.88 | 62.11 | | | Winogrande | 58.88 | **61.41** | 58.72 | 57.06 | 59.59 | | | CommonsenseQA | 55.28 | 49.14 | **60.60** | 48.98 | 52.99 | | Knowledge & Understanding | MMLU-CF (Average) | 44.13 | 42.93 | 41.32 | 39.11 | **47.65** | | | MMLU Pro CF | 19.61 | 16.66 | 16.42 | 18.04 | **24.92** | | | MMLU Pro MCF | 32.70 | 31.32 | 25.07 | 30.39 | **41.07** | | | PIQA | **78.89** | 78.35 | 78.51 | 75.35 | 77.58 | | | OpenBookQA | 40.60 | 40.20 | 42.00 | 36.40 | **42.40** | | | BoolQ | **78.99** | 73.61 | 75.33 | 74.46 | 74.28 | | **Math & Code** | | | | | | | | Coding & math | HumanEval+ | 30.48 | 34.14| 25.00 | 43.29| **54.87** | | | MBPP+ | 52.91 | 52.11 | 38.88| 59.25 | **63.75** | | | MATH (4-shot) | 46.10 | 40.10 | 7.44 | 41.64 | **51.20** | | | GSM8k (5-shot) | 67.63 | 70.13 | 25.92 | 65.88 | **74.14** | | **Long context** | | | | | | | | | Ruler 32k | 76.35 | 75.93 | 77.58 | 70.63 | **83.98** | | | Ruler 64k | 67.85 | 64.90 | **72.93** | 57.18 | 60.29 | | | Ruler 128k | 61.03 | 62.23 | **71.30** | 43.03 | 47.23 | #### Multilingual benchmarks | Category | Metric | SmolLM3 3B Base | Qwen2.5-3B | Llama3.2 3B | Qwen3 1.7B Base | Qwen3 4B Base | |---------|--------|---------------------|------------|--------------|------------------|---------------| | Main supported languages | | | | | | | | | French| MLMM Hellaswag | **63.94** | 57.47 | 57.66 | 51.26 | 61.00 | | | Belebele | 51.00 | 51.55 | 49.22 |49.44| **55.00** | | | Global MMLU (CF) | 38.37 | 34.22 | 33.71 | 34.94 |**41.80** | | | Flores-200 (5-shot) | 62.85| 61.38| 62.89 | 58.68 | **65.76** | | Spanish| MLMM Hellaswag | **65.85** | 58.25 | 59.39 | 52.40 | 61.85 | | | Belebele | 47.00 | 48.88 | 47.00 | 47.56 | **50.33** | | | Global MMLU (CF) | 38.51 | 35.84 | 35.60 | 34.79 |**41.22** | | | Flores-200 (5-shot) | 48.25| 50.00| 44.45 | 46.93 | **50.16** | | German| MLMM Hellaswag | **59.56** | 49.99| 53.19|46.10| 56.43| | | Belebele | 48.44 | 47.88 | 46.22 | 48.00 | **53.44**| | | Global MMLU (CF) | 35.10 | 33.19 | 32.60 | 32.73 |**38.70** | | | Flores-200 (5-shot) | **56.60**| 50.63| 54.95 | 52.58 | 50.48 | | Italian| MLMM Hellaswag | **62.49** | 53.21 | 54.96 | 48.72 | 58.76 | | | Belebele | 46.44 | 44.77 | 43.88 | 44.00 | **48.78** | 44.88 | | | Global MMLU (CF) | 36.99 | 33.91 | 32.79 | 35.37 |**39.26** | | | Flores-200 (5-shot) | 52.65| **54.87**| 48.83 | 48.37 | 49.11 | | Portuguese| MLMM Hellaswag | **63.22** | 57.38 | 56.84 | 50.73 | 59.89 | | | Belebele | 47.67 | **49.22** | 45.00 | 44.00 | 50.00 | 49.00 | | | Global MMLU (CF) | 36.88 | 34.72 | 33.05 | 35.26 |**40.66** | | | Flores-200 (5-shot) | 60.93 |57.68| 54.28 | 56.58 | **63.43** | The model has also been trained on Arabic (standard), Chinese and Russian data, but has seen fewer tokens in these languages compared to the 6 above. We report the performance on these langages for information. | Category | Metric | SmolLM3 3B Base | Qwen2.5-3B | Llama3.2 3B | Qwen3 1.7B Base | Qwen3 4B Base | |---------|--------|---------------------|------------|--------------|------------------|---------------| | Other supported languages | | | | | | | | | Arabic| Belebele | 40.22 | 44.22 | 45.33 | 42.33 | **51.78** | | | Global MMLU (CF) | 28.57 | 28.81 | 27.67 | 29.37 | **31.85** | | | Flores-200 (5-shot) | 40.22 | 39.44 | **44.43** | 35.82 | 39.76 | | Chinese| Belebele | 43.78 | 44.56 | 49.56 | 48.78 | **53.22** | | | Global MMLU (CF) | 36.16 | 33.79 | 39.57 | 38.56 | **44.55** | | | Flores-200 (5-shot) | 29.17 | **33.21** | 31.89 | 25.70 | 32.50 | | Russian| Belebele | 47.44 | 45.89 | 47.44 | 45.22 | **51.44** | | | Global MMLU (CF) | 36.51 | 32.47 | 34.52 | 34.83 | **38.80** | | | Flores-200 (5-shot) | 47.13 | 48.74 | 50.74 | 54.70 | **60.53** | ## Training ### Model - **Architecture:** Transformer decoder - **Pretraining tokens:** 11T - **Precision:** bfloat16 ### Software & hardware - **GPUs:** 384 H100 - **Training Framework:** [nanotron](https://github.com/huggingface/nanotron/tree/smollm3) - **Data processing framework:** [datatrove](https://github.com/huggingface/datatrove) - **Evaluation framework:** [lighteval](https://github.com/huggingface/lighteval) - **Post-training Framework:** [TRL](https://github.com/huggingface/trl) ### Open resources Here is an infographic with all the training details - The datasets used for pretraining can be found in this [collection](https://huggingface.co/collections/HuggingFaceTB/smollm3-pretraining-datasets-685a7353fdc01aecde51b1d9) and those used in mid-training and post-training will be uploaded later - The training and evaluation configs and code can be found in the [huggingface/smollm](https://github.com/huggingface/smollm) repository. - The training intermediate checkpoints (including the mid-training and SFT checkpoints) are available at [HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B-checkpoints](https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B-checkpoints) ![image/png](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/651e96991b97c9f33d26bde6/qiE5ZYr9SD1CIAtfEfuC8.png) ### EU Summary of Public Content The EU AI Act requires all GPAI models to provide a Public Summary of Training Content according to a [given template](https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/explanatory-notice-and-template-public-summary-training-content-general-purpose-ai-models). You can find the summary for this model below, as well as in its [development Space](https://huggingface.co/spaces/hfmlsoc/smollm3-eu-data-transparency). ## Limitations SmolLM3 can produce text on a variety of topics, but the generated content may not always be factually accurate, logically consistent, or free from biases present in the training data. These models should be used as assistive tools rather than definitive sources of information. Users should always verify important information and critically evaluate any generated content. ## License [Apache 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) ## Citation ```bash @misc{bakouch2025smollm3, title={{SmolLM3: smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner}}, author={Bakouch, Elie and Ben Allal, Loubna and Lozhkov, Anton and Tazi, Nouamane and Tunstall, Lewis and Patiño, Carlos Miguel and Beeching, Edward and Roucher, Aymeric and Reedi, Aksel Joonas and Gallouédec, Quentin and Rasul, Kashif and Habib, Nathan and Fourrier, Clémentine and Kydlicek, Hynek and Penedo, Guilherme and Larcher, Hugo and Morlon, Mathieu and Srivastav, Vaibhav and Lochner, Joshua and Nguyen, Xuan-Son and Raffel, Colin and von Werra, Leandro and Wolf, Thomas}, year={2025}, howpublished={\url{https://huggingface.co/blog/smollm3}} } ```
--- *Derivative work of [`HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B`](https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B), quantized with [GLQ](https://github.com/cnygaard/glq). It inherits the base model's license (`apache-2.0`) — please respect the base model's terms.* ⭐ [GLQ on GitHub](https://github.com/cnygaard/glq)