Instructions to use ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b-INT4 with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b-INT4 with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b-INT4")
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("ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b-INT4")
model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b-INT4", 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 ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b-INT4 with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b-INT4"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b-INT4",
		"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/ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b-INT4

SGLang

How to use ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b-INT4 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 "ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b-INT4" \
    --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": "ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b-INT4",
		"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 "ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b-INT4" \
        --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": "ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b-INT4",
		"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 ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b-INT4 with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b-INT4
```

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Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B

AWQ + GPTQ INT4 (W4A16). Derived directly from Swift 1.5 with LLM Compressor. Run it with a compressed-tensors W4A16 runtime that honors the saved FP8 KV-cache configuration.

Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B is UkisAI's reasoning-efficient derivative of Qwen3.8-27B. It uses 58.5% fewer thinking tokens while scoring 0.35% higher than the base, for a 9.18× speed-up on several tasks.

Swift 1.5 is a direct upgrade from Swift 1.0, our model with 350k+ downloads, delivering stronger overall performance than both base and Swift 1.0 in various tasks, especially coding and agentic, while using fewer thinking tokens. We accomplished that by scaling up the post-training (RL and OPD) from the previous version.

Demo

We gave base Qwen3.8-27B and Swift 1.5 27B the same prompt:

create a 3d little planet globe where I (player can walk around) and it has all these biomes to explore, the globe doesn't have to be too big, but still fun to go around. It's about a boy scout who is camping and goes around exploring.

Try the game yourself here: https://ukisai.com/swift-games/27b

Base Qwen3.8-27B took 104.6 minutes to build its game. Swift 1.5 took 11.39 minutes.

Training approach

We made Swift efficient by figuring out which tokens were linked to pathological overthinking and penalizing them without "attacking" the reasoning length directly then regained the accuracy with RL and OPD, leading to "compressed" token usage while maintaining accuracy. Swift 1.5 was made from Swift 1.0, on whom we scaled up the post-training methods that previously improved Swift1.0 model performance, this time with the main focus on long-horizon, agentic, and coding tasks, as seen in the LiveCodeBench and Terminal Bench 2.1 improvements. Our training data is viewable here: https://huggingface.co/datasets/ukisai/Qwen3.8-27B-multi-turn-agent-sft albeit it is not used out of the box, but rather re-sampled, turned into proper RL environments etc.

Evaluation

The external results below compare Qwen3.8-27B, the foundation base model, and Swift 1.5. Both models use the same saved evaluation protocols, and all scores are reported as final aggregate percentages.

Benchmark	Final score		Mean tokens			Median tokens
Benchmark	Qwen3.8	Swift 1.5	Qwen3.8	Swift 1.5	Reduction	Reduction
General reasoning
GPQA-Diamond	88.28%	88.59%	15,014	8,717	↓ 41.9%	↓ 58.5%
C-Eval	90.00%	90.92%	1,492	819	↓ 45.1%	↓ 16.9%
IFBench	73.53%	72.07%	8,052	4,955	↓ 38.5%	↓ 47.3%
ERQA	67.45%	65.40%	4,137	1,906	↓ 53.9%	↓ 56.2%
Mathematics
AIME 2026	98.67%	96.00%	22,014	13,203	↓ 40.0%	↓ 48.5%
HMMT November 2025	99.33%	97.33%	22,032	14,957	↓ 32.1%	↓ 47.8%
Coding
LiveCodeBench v6	76.76%	81.71%	11,184	8,448	↓ 24.5%	↓ 46.3%
Agent tasks
Terminal-Bench 2.1	69.21%	72.13%	52,265	43,733	↓ 16.3%	↓ 0.1%

Scores are final five-repeat aggregates under matched evaluation protocols. Mean-token columns report reasoning tokens per trial; Terminal-Bench sums reasoning across agent calls.

Benchmark methodology and reproduction settings

Serving: BF16 · vLLM 0.27.1 · Qwen3 parser · context 262,144 · thinking xhigh.
Sampling: temperature 1.0 · top_p 0.95 · top_k 20 · min_p 0 · presence_penalty 0 · repetition_penalty 1.
Benchmarks: averages over five seeds (0–4) per model; five trials per task for Terminal-Bench, base and Swift 1.5 served at context 131,072 on the same Harbor build.

Benchmark	Output cap
GPQA-Diamond	100,000
C-Eval	16,384
IFBench	81,920
ERQA	100,000
AIME 2026	250,000
HMMT November 2025	250,000
LiveCodeBench v6	32,768
Terminal-Bench 2.1	Agent/task limits

Efficiency across reasoning efforts

Qwen3.8's reasoning_effort setting lets users choose how much the model thinks. For Swift 1.5 to be useful across these settings, it needs to reduce thinking while keeping accuracy close to the base. We therefore tested xhigh, medium, and low: thinking-token savings persist at every level.

Reasoning effort	Qwen3.8	Swift 1.5	Mean thinking reduction
Xhigh	88.28%	88.59%	↓ 41.9%
Medium	84.14%	82.22%	↓ 24.8%
Low	84.04%	84.85%	↓ 28.7%

At low, Swift 1.5 scores above the base while using about 29% fewer thinking tokens.

Quantized Swift 1.5 models

Format	Repository	Runtime
GGUF	Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF	llama.cpp
GSQ-RCO GGUF (compact 2–3 bit)	Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27B-GSQ-RCO-GGUF	llama.cpp
AWQ INT4 (W4A16)	Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b-W4A16-AWQ	vLLM (`compressed-tensors`)
AutoRound INT4 (W4A16)	Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b-W4A16-AutoRound	vLLM (`auto-round`)
AWQ + GPTQ INT4 (W4A16)	Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b-INT4	vLLM (`compressed-tensors`)
NVFP4	Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b-NVFP4	NVIDIA Blackwell
AMD Quark FP8 (W8A8)	Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b-Quark-FP8-dynamic-AMD	AMD Quark
MLX 5-bit	Swift-1.5-5bit-MLX	Apple MLX
MLX 4-bit	Swift-1.5-4bit-MLX	Apple MLX
MLX 3-bit (text only)	Swift-1.5-3bit-MLX-TextOnly	Apple MLX

These results evaluate the merged Swift 1.5 checkpoint and three INT4 exports on GPQA-Diamond (198 questions), IFBench (300 prompts), and AIME 2026 (30 problems). Each model completed the full datasets with one sample per prompt, seed 0, and zero request errors. This is a single-seed evaluation, separate from the five-repeat BF16 release results above.

The Qwen-base columns use the saved seed/sample 0 runs. Quantization recipes and serving settings differ from the new Swift 1.5 runs, so these are reference comparisons rather than a controlled measurement of the Swift adaptation. Token reductions below are recomputed from those same reference samples.

Benchmark / Swift 1.5 quantization	Qwen base accuracy	Swift 1.5 quant accuracy	Mean token reduction	Median token reduction
GPQA-Diamond AWQ INT4	86.36%	88.38%	↓ 51.5%	↓ 64.4%
GPQA-Diamond AutoRound INT4	86.36%	89.39%	↓ 50.5%	↓ 57.8%
GPQA-Diamond AWQ + GPTQ INT4	86.36%	90.91%	↓ 45.8%	↓ 64.4%
IFBench AWQ INT4	72.00%	72.00%	↓ 36.9%	↓ 49.3%
IFBench AutoRound INT4	72.00%	69.33%	↓ 29.3%	↓ 39.2%
IFBench AWQ + GPTQ INT4	72.00%	70.00%	↓ 31.8%	↓ 52.7%
AIME 2026 AWQ INT4	70.00%	86.67%	↓ 29.2%	↓ 36.2%
AIME 2026 AutoRound INT4	76.67%	83.33%	↓ 17.7%	↓ 32.4%
AIME 2026 AWQ + GPTQ INT4	76.67%	83.33%	↓ 22.4%	↓ 34.0%

AIME scoring: truncated responses count as incorrect for both columns.

The AMD Quark INT4 and FP8 exports have separate sanity evaluations; completed results on these three reasoning benchmarks are not available for them.

Quantized evaluation settings and BF16 reference

Serving: vLLM 0.29.0, tensor parallelism 1, eager execution, BF16 activations, context 131,072, template-default thinking without an effort override. The AWQ + GPTQ export uses FP8 KV cache; BF16, AWQ, and AutoRound use auto KV dtype. Sampling: temperature 1, top-p 0.95, top-k 20, min-p 0, presence penalty 0, repetition penalty 1, seed 0. Output caps: GPQA 100,000, IFBench 81,920, AIME 32,768. IFBench uses official strict prompt-level scoring.

GPQA token counts cover re-tokenized reasoning; IFBench and AIME count the full generated response. Statistics include all responses, including truncations; medians use the midpoint of the two central values when the sample count is even.

Saved Qwen references: W4A16 for GPQA and IFBench; Qwen AWQ for the AWQ AIME row; Qwen W4A16 for the AutoRound and AWQ + GPTQ AIME rows. The latter is a W4A16 reference for AutoRound, not an AutoRound base run. The new runs do not reproduce the original software stack.

The fresh Swift 1.5 BF16 reference and all quantized exports scored as follows under this single-seed protocol:

Model	GPQA-Diamond	IFBench strict	AIME 2026
Swift 1.5 BF16	91.41%	72.00%	86.67%
AWQ INT4	88.38%	72.00%	86.67%
AutoRound INT4	89.39%	69.33%	83.33%
AWQ + GPTQ INT4	90.91%	70.00%	83.33%

Truncation counts are recorded in the linked evaluation data. These single-seed results do not establish quality parity or replace the broader multi-seed evaluation.

Verified counts, token statistics, settings, and evidence hashes.

License and access

Swift 1.5 is a derivative of Qwen3.8-27B (Copyright 2026 Alibaba Cloud, Apache License 2.0). UkisAI's contribution, including the adapted weights, is licensed under the Swift Open License v1.0. See NOTICE for the change notice and attribution details.

Personal, research, educational, evaluation, and commercial use are free for individuals and organizations with gross annual revenue, including affiliates, of up to US$1,000,000. Above that threshold, commercial use requires a separate Swift Enterprise License. Contact UkisAI for terms.

Nothing in the Swift Open License limits rights in Qwen3.8-27B itself under Apache 2.0.

Citation

@misc{swift-1.5-qwen3.8-27b,
  title  = {Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B},
  author = {UkisAI},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://huggingface.co/ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b}
}

Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the NVIDIA Innovation Lab, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud for providing compute credits and infrastructure support for Swift's development, training, and evaluation.