PowerInfer/SmallThinker-4BA0.6B-Instruct

Introduction

SmallThinker is a family of on-device native Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models specially designed for local deployment, co-developed by the IPADS and School of AI at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Zenergize AI. Designed from the ground up for resource-constrained environments, SmallThinker brings powerful, private, and low-latency AI directly to your personal devices, without relying on the cloud.

Performance

Model	MMLU	GPQA-diamond	GSM8K	MATH-500	IFEVAL	LIVEBENCH	HUMANEVAL	Average
SmallThinker-4BA0.6B-Instruct	66.11	31.31	80.02	60.60	69.69	42.20	82.32	61.75
Qwen3-0.6B	43.31	26.77	62.85	45.6	58.41	23.1	31.71	41.67
Qwen3-1.7B	64.19	27.78	81.88	63.6	69.50	35.60	61.59	57.73
Gemma3nE2b-it	63.04	20.2	82.34	58.6	73.2	27.90	64.63	55.70
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	64.15	24.24	75.51	40	71.16	15.30	55.49	49.41
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct	45.66	22.73	1.67	14.4	48.06	13.50	37.20	26.17

For the MMLU evaluation, we use a 0-shot CoT setting.

All models are evaluated in non-thinking mode.

Speed

Model	Memory(GiB)	i9 14900	1+13 8gen4	rk3588 (16G)	rk3576	Raspberry PI 5	RDK X5	rk3566
SmallThinker 4B+sparse ffn +sparse lm_head	2.24	108.17	78.99	39.76	15.10	28.77	7.23	6.33
SmallThinker 4B+sparse ffn +sparse lm_head+limited memory	limit 1G	29.99	20.91	15.04	2.60	0.75	0.67	0.74
Qwen3 0.6B	0.6	148.56	94.91	45.93	15.29	27.44	13.32	9.76
Qwen3 1.7B	1.3	62.24	41.00	20.29	6.09	11.08	6.35	4.15
Qwen3 1.7B+limited memory	limit 1G	2.66	1.09	1.00	0.47	-	-	0.11
Gemma3n E2B	1G, theoretically	36.88	27.06	12.50	3.80	6.66	3.46	2.45

Note：i9 14900、1+13 8ge4 use 4 threads，others use the number of threads that can achieve the maximum speed. All models here have been quantized to q4_0.

You can deploy SmallThinker with offloading support using PowerInfer

Model Card

Architecture	Mixture-of-Experts (MoE)
Total Parameters	4B
Activated Parameters	0.6B
Number of Layers	32
Attention Hidden Dimension	1536
MoE Hidden Dimension (per Expert)	768
Number of Attention Heads	12
Number of Experts	32
Selected Experts per Token	4
Vocabulary Size	151,936
Context Length	32K
Attention Mechanism	GQA
Activation Function	ReGLU

How to Run

Transformers

The latest version of transformers is recommended or transformers>=4.53.3 is required. The following contains a code snippet illustrating how to use the model generate content based on given inputs.

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
import torch

path = "PowerInfer/SmallThinker-4BA0.6B-Instruct"
device = "cuda"

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(path, trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(path, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16, device_map=device, trust_remote_code=True)

messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Give me a short introduction to large language model."},
]
model_inputs = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, return_tensors="pt", add_generation_prompt=True).to(device)

model_outputs = model.generate(
    model_inputs,
    do_sample=True,
    max_new_tokens=1024
)

output_token_ids = [
    model_outputs[i][len(model_inputs[i]):] for i in range(len(model_inputs))
]

responses = tokenizer.batch_decode(output_token_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)[0]
print(responses)

ModelScope

ModelScope adopts Python API similar to (though not entirely identical to) Transformers. For basic usage, simply modify the first line of the above code as follows:

from modelscope import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

Statement

Due to the constraints of its model size and the limitations of its training data, its responses may contain factual inaccuracies, biases, or outdated information.
Users bear full responsibility for independently evaluating and verifying the accuracy and appropriateness of all generated content.
SmallThinker does not possess genuine comprehension or consciousness and cannot express personal opinions or value judgments.