Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Thinking#
Introduction#
Qwen3-Omni is the natively end-to-end multilingual omni-modal foundation models. It processes text, images, audio, and video, and delivers real-time streaming responses in both text and natural speech. We introduce several architectural upgrades to improve performance and efficiency. The Thinking model of Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B, containing the thinker component, equipped with chain-of-thought reasoning, supporting audio, video, and text input, with text output.
This document will show the main verification steps of the model, including supported features, feature configuration, environment preparation, single-node deployment, accuracy and performance evaluation.
Supported Features#
Refer to supported features to get the model’s supported feature matrix.
Refer to feature guide to get the feature’s configuration.
Environment Preparation#
Model Weight#
Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Thinkingrequire 2 NPU Card(64G × 2).Download model weight It is recommended to download the model weight to the shared directory of multiple nodes, such as/root/.cache/
Installation#
You can use our official docker image to run Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Thinking directly
Select an image based on your machine type and start the docker image on your node, refer to using docker.
# Update --device according to your device (Atlas A2: /dev/davinci[0-7] Atlas A3:/dev/davinci[0-15]).
# Update the vllm-ascend image according to your environment.
# Note you should download the weight to /root/.cache in advance.
# Update the vllm-ascend image
export IMAGE=m.daocloud.io/quay.io/ascend/vllm-ascend:v0.15.0rc1
export NAME=vllm-ascend
# Run the container using the defined variables
# Note: If you are running bridge network with docker, please expose available ports for multiple nodes communication in advance
docker run --rm \
--name $NAME \
--net=host \
--shm-size=1g \
--device /dev/davinci0 \
--device /dev/davinci1 \
--device /dev/davinci_manager \
--device /dev/devmm_svm \
--device /dev/hisi_hdc \
-v /usr/local/dcmi:/usr/local/dcmi \
-v /usr/local/Ascend/driver/tools/hccn_tool:/usr/local/Ascend/driver/tools/hccn_tool \
-v /usr/local/bin/npu-smi:/usr/local/bin/npu-smi \
-v /usr/local/Ascend/driver/lib64/:/usr/local/Ascend/driver/lib64/ \
-v /usr/local/Ascend/driver/version.info:/usr/local/Ascend/driver/version.info \
-v /etc/ascend_install.info:/etc/ascend_install.info \
-v /root/.cache:/root/.cache \
-it $IMAGE bash
You can build all from source.
Install
vllm-ascend, refer to set up using python.
Please install system dependencies
pip install qwen_omni_utils modelscope
# Used for audio processing.
apt-get update && apt-get install ffmpeg -y
# Check the installation.
ffmpeg -version
Deployment#
Single-node Deployment#
Offline Inference on Multi-NPU#
Run the following script to execute offline inference on multi-NPU:
import gc
import torch
import os
from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
from vllm.distributed.parallel_state import (
destroy_distributed_environment,
destroy_model_parallel
)
from modelscope import Qwen3OmniMoeProcessor
from qwen_omni_utils import process_mm_info
os.environ["HCCL_BUFFSIZE"] = "1024"
def clean_up():
"""Clean up distributed resources and NPU memory"""
destroy_model_parallel()
destroy_distributed_environment()
gc.collect() # Garbage collection to free up memory
torch.npu.empty_cache()
def main():
MODEL_PATH = "Qwen3/Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Thinking"
llm = LLM(
model=MODEL_PATH,
tensor_parallel_size=2,
enable_expert_parallel=True,
distributed_executor_backend="mp",
limit_mm_per_prompt={'image': 5, 'video': 2, 'audio': 3},
max_model_len=32768,
)
sampling_params = SamplingParams(
temperature=0.6,
top_p=0.95,
top_k=20,
max_completion_tokens=16384,
)
processor = Qwen3OmniMoeProcessor.from_pretrained(MODEL_PATH)
messages = [
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{"type": "video", "video": "https://qianwen-res.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/Qwen3-Omni/demo/draw.mp4"},
{"type": "text", "text": "What can you see and hear? Answer in one sentence."}
]
}
]
text = processor.apply_chat_template(
messages,
tokenize=False,
add_generation_prompt=True
)
# 'use_audio_in_video = True' requires equal number of audio and video items, including audio from the video.
audios, images, videos = process_mm_info(messages, use_audio_in_video=True)
inputs = {
"prompt": text,
"multi_modal_data": {},
"mm_processor_kwargs": {"use_audio_in_video": True}
}
if images is not None:
inputs['multi_modal_data']['image'] = images
if videos is not None:
inputs['multi_modal_data']['video'] = videos
if audios is not None:
inputs['multi_modal_data']['audio'] = audios
outputs = llm.generate([inputs], sampling_params=sampling_params)
for output in outputs:
prompt = output.prompt
generated_text = output.outputs[0].text
print(f"Prompt: {prompt!r}, Generated text: {generated_text!r}")
del llm
clean_up()
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
Online Inference on Multi-NPU#
Run the following script to start the vLLM server on Multi-NPU: For an Atlas A2 with 64 GB of NPU card memory, tensor-parallel-size should be at least 1, and for 32 GB of memory, tensor-parallel-size should be at least 2.
vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Thinking --tensor-parallel-size 2 --enable_expert_parallel
Functional Verification#
Once your server is started, you can query the model with input prompts.
curl http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions \
-X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "Qwen/Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Thinking",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{
"type": "image_url",
"image_url": {
"url": "https://qianwen-res.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/Qwen3-Omni/demo/cars.jpg"
}
},
{
"type": "audio_url",
"audio_url": {
"url": "https://qianwen-res.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/Qwen3-Omni/demo/cough.wav"
}
},
{
"type": "video_url",
"video_url": {
"url": "https://qianwen-res.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/Qwen3-Omni/demo/draw.mp4"
}
},
{
"type": "text",
"text": "Analyze this audio, image, and video together."
}
]
}
]
}'
Accuracy Evaluation#
Here are accuracy evaluation methods.
Using EvalScope#
As an example, take the gsm8k omnibench bbh dataset as a test dataset, and run accuracy evaluation of Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Thinking in online mode.
Refer to Using evalscope(https://docs.vllm.ai/projects/ascend/en/latest/developer_guide/evaluation/using_evalscope.html#install-evalscope-using-pip) for
evalscopeinstallation.Run
evalscopeto execute the accuracy evaluation.
evalscope eval \
--model /root/.cache/modelscope/hub/models/Qwen/Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Thinking \
--api-url http://localhost:8000/v1 \
--api-key EMPTY \
--eval-type server \
--datasets omni_bench, gsm8k, bbh \
--dataset-args '{"omni_bench": { "extra_params": { "use_image": true, "use_audio": false}}}' \
--eval-batch-size 1 \
--generation-config '{"max_completion_tokens": 10000, "temperature": 0.6}' \
--limit 100
After execution, you can get the result, here is the result of
Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Thinkingin vllm-ascend:0.13.0rc1 for reference only.
+-----------------------------+------------+----------+----------+-------+---------+---------+
| Model | Dataset | Metric | Subset | Num | Score | Cat.0 |
+=============================+============+==========+==========+=======+=========+=========+
| Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Thinking | omni_bench | mean_acc | default | 100 | 0.44 | default |
+-----------------------------+------------+----------+----------+-------+---------+---------+
| Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Thinking | gsm8k | mean_acc | main | 100 | 0.98 | default |
+-----------------------------+-----------+----------+----------+-------+---------+---------+
| Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Thinking | bbh | mean_acc | OVERALL | 270 | 0.9148 | |
+-----------------------------+------------+----------+----------+-------+---------+---------+
Performance#
Using vLLM Benchmark#
Run performance evaluation of Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Thinking as an example.
Refer to vllm benchmark for more details.
Refer to vllm benchmark for more details.
There are three vllm bench subcommands:
latency: Benchmark the latency of a single batch of requests.serve: Benchmark the online serving throughput.throughput: Benchmark offline inference throughput.
Take the serve as an example. Run the code as follows.
VLLM_USE_MODELSCOPE=True
export MODEL=Qwen/Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Thinking
python3 -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server --model $MODEL --tensor-parallel-size 2 --swap-space 16 --disable-log-stats --disable-log-request --load-format dummy
pip config set global.index-url https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/pypi/web/simple
pip install -r vllm-ascend/benchmarks/requirements-bench.txt
vllm bench serve --model $MODEL --dataset-name random --random-input 200 --num-prompts 200 --request-rate 1 --save-result --result-dir ./
After execution, you can get the result, here is the result of Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Thinking in vllm-ascend:0.13.0rc1 for reference only.
============ Serving Benchmark Result ============
Successful requests: 200
Failed requests: 0
Request rate configured (RPS): 1.00
Benchmark duration (s): 211.90
Total input tokens: 40000
Total generated tokens: 25600
Request throughput (req/s): 0.94
Output token throughput (tok/s): 120.81
Peak output token throughput (tok/s): 216.00
Peak concurrent requests: 24.00
Total token throughput (tok/s): 309.58
---------------Time to First Token----------------
Mean TTFT (ms): 215.50
Median TTFT (ms): 211.51
P99 TTFT (ms): 317.18
-----Time per Output Token (excl. 1st token)------
Mean TPOT (ms): 98.96
Median TPOT (ms): 99.19
P99 TPOT (ms): 101.52
---------------Inter-token Latency----------------
Mean ITL (ms): 99.02
Median ITL (ms): 96.10
P99 ITL (ms): 176.02
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