Instructions to use McGill-NLP/A3-Qwen3.5-9B with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use McGill-NLP/A3-Qwen3.5-9B with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="McGill-NLP/A3-Qwen3.5-9B")
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("McGill-NLP/A3-Qwen3.5-9B")
model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("McGill-NLP/A3-Qwen3.5-9B", 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 McGill-NLP/A3-Qwen3.5-9B with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "McGill-NLP/A3-Qwen3.5-9B"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "McGill-NLP/A3-Qwen3.5-9B",
		"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/McGill-NLP/A3-Qwen3.5-9B

SGLang

How to use McGill-NLP/A3-Qwen3.5-9B 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 "McGill-NLP/A3-Qwen3.5-9B" \
    --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": "McGill-NLP/A3-Qwen3.5-9B",
		"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 "McGill-NLP/A3-Qwen3.5-9B" \
        --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": "McGill-NLP/A3-Qwen3.5-9B",
		"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 McGill-NLP/A3-Qwen3.5-9B with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/McGill-NLP/A3-Qwen3.5-9B
```

Update pipeline tag to image-text-to-text and add transformers metadata

by nielsr HF Staff - opened Apr 10

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@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
 ---
 language:
 - en
 tags:
 - agents
 - web
 - sft
 - qwen
-base_model: Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B
-pipeline_tag: text-generation
 ---
 <div align="center">
@@ -24,7 +25,9 @@ pipeline_tag: text-generation
 </div>
-A3-Qwen3.5-9B is a 9B web agent fine-tuned from [Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B) on [A3-Synth](https://huggingface.co/datasets/McGill-NLP/A3-Synth), a synthetic dataset generated using the Agent-as-Annotators (A3) framework.
 ## Usage
@@ -51,3 +54,17 @@ vllm serve McGill-NLP/A3-Qwen3.5-9B --tensor-parallel-size 2 --max-model-len 655
 | A3-Qwen3.5-9B | 9B | [McGill-NLP/A3-Qwen3.5-9B](https://huggingface.co/collections/McGill-NLP/a3-agent-as-annotators-69d854ab5b1993b10efc3fba) |
 | A3-Qwen3.5-4B | 4B | [McGill-NLP/A3-Qwen3.5-4B](https://huggingface.co/McGill-NLP/A3-Qwen3.5-4B) |
 | A3-Qwen3.5-2B | 2B | [McGill-NLP/A3-Qwen3.5-2B](https://huggingface.co/McGill-NLP/A3-Qwen3.5-2B) |

 ---
+base_model: Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B
 language:
 - en
+pipeline_tag: image-text-to-text
+library_name: transformers
 tags:
 - agents
 - web
 - sft
 - qwen
 ---
 <div align="center">
 </div>
+A3-Qwen3.5-9B is a 9B multimodal web agent fine-tuned from [Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B) on [A3-Synth](https://huggingface.co/datasets/McGill-NLP/A3-Synth), a synthetic dataset generated using the Agent-as-Annotators (A3) framework.
+The model achieves **41.5% on WebArena**, surpassing closed-source models such as Claude 3.5 Sonnet (36.0%) and GPT-4o (31.5%) under the same evaluation protocol.
 ## Usage
 | A3-Qwen3.5-9B | 9B | [McGill-NLP/A3-Qwen3.5-9B](https://huggingface.co/collections/McGill-NLP/a3-agent-as-annotators-69d854ab5b1993b10efc3fba) |
 | A3-Qwen3.5-4B | 4B | [McGill-NLP/A3-Qwen3.5-4B](https://huggingface.co/McGill-NLP/A3-Qwen3.5-4B) |
 | A3-Qwen3.5-2B | 2B | [McGill-NLP/A3-Qwen3.5-2B](https://huggingface.co/McGill-NLP/A3-Qwen3.5-2B) |
+## Citation
+```bibtex
+@misc{lu2026structured,
+      title={Structured Distillation of Web Agent Capabilities Enables Generalization},
+      author={Xing Han Lù and Siva Reddy},
+      year={2026},
+      eprint={2604.07776},
+      archivePrefix={arXiv},
+      primaryClass={cs.LG},
+      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07776},
+}
+```