> For clean Markdown of any page, append .md to the page URL.
> For a complete documentation index, see https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo/automodel/llms.txt.
> For AI client integration (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.), connect to the MCP server at https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo/automodel/_mcp/server.

# Qwen3-0.6B

> Use Qwen3-0.6B with NeMo AutoModel for language model fine-tuning, with documented checkpoints, runnable recipes, setup guidance, and model reference details.

[Qwen3](https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen3/) is Alibaba Cloud's third-generation dense language model series, featuring improved reasoning, instruction following, and multilingual capabilities over Qwen2.

Set up NeMo AutoModel with the [latest container](https://catalog.ngc.nvidia.com/orgs/nvidia/containers/nemo-automodel) or follow the [installation instructions](/get-started/installation).

## Fine-Tune Qwen3-0.6B

From the repository root, run:

```bash
uv run automodel --nproc-per-node=8 examples/llm_finetune/qwen/qwen3_0p6b_hellaswag.yaml
```

## Choose a Workflow

| Goal                                                   | Start Here                                                                                                                                  |
| ------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) - Qwen3 0.6B on HellaSwag | Use [qwen3\_0p6b\_hellaswag.yaml](https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Automodel/blob/main/examples/llm_finetune/qwen/qwen3_0p6b_hellaswag.yaml). |

## Model Reference

### Model Architecture

| Property                  | Value                               |
| ------------------------- | ----------------------------------- |
| Task                      | Text Generation                     |
| Architecture              | `Qwen3ForCausalLM`                  |
| Parameters                | 0.6B                                |
| Hugging Face Organization | [Qwen](https://huggingface.co/Qwen) |

### Available Models

| Model      | HF ID                                                       |
| ---------- | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| Qwen3 0.6B | [`Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B`](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B) |

## Related Resources

* [LLM Fine-Tuning Guide](/recipes-e2e-examples/sft-peft)