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# Qwen3.5-9B

> Use NeMo AutoModel to fine-tune Qwen3.5-9B for VLM workflows with checked-in image-text-to-text recipes and documented distributed settings.

[Qwen3.5-9B](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B) has a checked-in NeMo AutoModel recipe for image-text-to-text.
The Hugging Face configuration declares the `Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration` architecture.

## Fine-Tune Qwen3.5-9B

Follow the [installation instructions](/get-started/installation), then review the checked-in recipe and
its declared topology below before choosing a local or cluster launcher.

```bash
uv run automodel examples/vlm_finetune/qwen3_5/qwen3_5_9b.yaml \
  --nproc-per-node 8
```

## Choose a Workflow

| Goal                                  | Start Here                                                                                                                        |
| ------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Run the primary recipe for this model | Use the [recipe configuration](https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Automodel/blob/main/examples/vlm_finetune/qwen3_5/qwen3_5_9b.yaml). |
| Prepare your environment              | Follow the [installation instructions](/get-started/installation).                                                                |

### Configuration

| Setting  | Configuration                                  |
| -------- | ---------------------------------------------- |
| Hardware | -                                              |
| Strategy | tp\_size=1; pp\_size=1, cp\_size=1, ep\_size=1 |
| Nodes    | -                                              |
| Features | Checkpointing (enabled=true)                   |
| Advanced | attention=sdpa, linear=torch                   |

## Model Reference

### Model Architecture

| Property     | Value                             |
| ------------ | --------------------------------- |
| Task         | Image-text-to-text                |
| Architecture | `Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration` |

### Available Models

* [`Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B`](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B)

## Related Resources

* [Vision-language model fine-tuning guide](/recipes-e2e-examples/gemma-3-3n)