model : Qwen3 Next (#16095)

* Qwen3 Next - cleaned up version

* Whitespaces and stuff

* Correct minor errors

* Update src/llama-model.cpp

Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@scala.com>

* Misc. fixes.

* Clean up code, add missing hybrid qualifier

* Did someone transpose the SOLVE_TRI result matrix? Perhaps...

* Whitespace

* Proper tensors for cb calls

* Use llama-graph.h vertical alignment

* BROKEN: chunking

* Set new tensors as inputs.

* Proper chunk logic

* It's the circle of life...

* More shenanigans for n_seq > 1

* Nail in the coffin?

* Fix Windows build

* Eh, one fails on Windows, the other fails on Mac... just use general capture.

* quant : cleanup

* model : cleanup

* qwen3 : cleanup

* cont : cleanup

* cont : cleanup

* ggml : revert change

* qwen3 : cleanup

* cont : cleanup

* Readd cmath

* qwen3 : fix typo

* Update convert_hf_to_gguf.py

Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@scala.com>

* Usual suspects

* fix my bad suggestion

---------

Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@scala.com>
Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov <ggerganov@gmail.com>

convert_hf_to_gguf.py

@@ -4183,6 +4183,36 @@ class Qwen3MoeModel(Qwen2MoeModel):
         super().set_vocab()
 
 
+@ModelBase.register("Qwen3NextForCausalLM")
+class Qwen3NextModel(Qwen2MoeModel):
+    model_arch = gguf.MODEL_ARCH.QWEN3NEXT
+
+    def set_gguf_parameters(self):
+        super().set_gguf_parameters()
+        self.gguf_writer.add_ssm_conv_kernel(self.hparams["linear_conv_kernel_dim"])
+        self.gguf_writer.add_ssm_state_size(self.hparams["linear_key_head_dim"])
+        self.gguf_writer.add_ssm_group_count(self.hparams["linear_num_key_heads"])
+        self.gguf_writer.add_ssm_time_step_rank(self.hparams["linear_num_value_heads"])
+        self.gguf_writer.add_ssm_inner_size(self.hparams["linear_value_head_dim"] * self.hparams["linear_num_value_heads"])
+        if (rope_dim := self.hparams.get("head_dim")) is None:
+            rope_dim = self.hparams["hidden_size"] // self.hparams["num_attention_heads"]
+        self.gguf_writer.add_rope_dimension_count(int(rope_dim * self.hparams.get("partial_rotary_factor", 0.25)))
+
+    def modify_tensors(self, data_torch: Tensor, name: str, bid: int | None) -> Iterable[tuple[str, Tensor]]:
+        if name.startswith("mtp"):
+            return [] # ignore MTP layers for now
+        if name.endswith(".A_log"):
+            data_torch = -torch.exp(data_torch)
+        elif name.endswith(".dt_bias"):
+            name = name.rpartition(".dt_bias")[0] + ".dt_proj.bias"
+        elif "conv1d" in name:
+            data_torch = data_torch.squeeze()
+        elif name.endswith("norm.weight") and not name.endswith("linear_attn.norm.weight"):
+            data_torch = data_torch + 1
+
+        yield from super().modify_tensors(data_torch, name, bid)
+
+
 @ModelBase.register("RND1")
 class RND1Model(Qwen2MoeModel):
     model_arch = gguf.MODEL_ARCH.RND1

examples/model-conversion/scripts/causal/run-converted-model.sh

@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ set -e
 
 # First try command line argument, then environment variable, then file
 CONVERTED_MODEL="${1:-"$CONVERTED_MODEL"}"
+MODEL_TESTING_PROMPT="${2:-"$MODEL_TESTING_PROMPT"}"
+
+if [ -z "$MODEL_TESTING_PROMPT"]; then
+    MODEL_TESTING_PROMPT="Hello, my name is"
+fi
 
 # Final check if we have a model path
 if [ -z "$CONVERTED_MODEL" ]; then
@@ -14,7 +19,8 @@ if [ -z "$CONVERTED_MODEL" ]; then
 fi
 
 echo $CONVERTED_MODEL
+echo $MODEL_TESTING_PROMPT
 
 cmake --build ../../build --target llama-logits -j8
 
-../../build/bin/llama-logits -m "$CONVERTED_MODEL" "Hello, my name is"
+../../build/bin/llama-logits -m "$CONVERTED_MODEL" "$MODEL_TESTING_PROMPT"

examples/model-conversion/scripts/causal/run-org-model.py

@@ -184,8 +184,12 @@ model_name = os.path.basename(model_path)
 # of using AutoModelForCausalLM.
 print(f"Model class: {model.__class__.__name__}")
 
+device = next(model.parameters()).device
+if os.getenv("MODEL_TESTING_PROMPT"):
+    prompt = os.getenv("MODEL_TESTING_PROMPT")
+else:
     prompt = "Hello, my name is"
-input_ids = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt").input_ids
+input_ids = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt").input_ids.to(device)
 
 print(f"Input tokens: {input_ids}")
 print(f"Input text: {repr(prompt)}")

ggml/src/ggml-cpu/ops.cpp

@@ -9766,7 +9766,8 @@ static void ggml_compute_forward_solve_tri_f32(const struct ggml_compute_params
             }
 
             const float diag = A_batch[i00 * n + i00];
-            GGML_ASSERT(diag != 0.0f && "Zero diagonal in triangular matrix");
+            assert(diag != 0.0f && "Zero diagonal in triangular matrix");
+
             X_batch[i00 * k + i01] = (B_batch[i00 * k + i01] - sum) / diag;
         }
     }

gguf-py/gguf/constants.py

@@ -366,6 +366,7 @@ class MODEL_ARCH(IntEnum):
     QWEN2VL          = auto()
     QWEN3            = auto()
     QWEN3MOE         = auto()
+    QWEN3NEXT        = auto()
     QWEN3VL          = auto()
     QWEN3VLMOE       = auto()
     PHI2             = auto()
@@ -531,6 +532,7 @@ class MODEL_TENSOR(IntEnum):
     SSM_D                = auto()
     SSM_NORM             = auto()
     SSM_OUT              = auto()
+    SSM_BETA_ALPHA       = auto() # qwen3next
     TIME_MIX_W0          = auto()
     TIME_MIX_W1          = auto()
     TIME_MIX_W2          = auto()
@@ -736,6 +738,7 @@ MODEL_ARCH_NAMES: dict[MODEL_ARCH, str] = {
     MODEL_ARCH.QWEN2VL:          "qwen2vl",
     MODEL_ARCH.QWEN3:            "qwen3",
     MODEL_ARCH.QWEN3MOE:         "qwen3moe",
+    MODEL_ARCH.QWEN3NEXT:        "qwen3next",
     MODEL_ARCH.QWEN3VL:          "qwen3vl",
     MODEL_ARCH.QWEN3VLMOE:       "qwen3vlmoe",
     MODEL_ARCH.PHI2:             "phi2",
@@ -900,6 +903,7 @@ TENSOR_NAMES: dict[MODEL_TENSOR, str] = {
     MODEL_TENSOR.SSM_D:                     "blk.{bid}.ssm_d",
     MODEL_TENSOR.SSM_NORM:                  "blk.{bid}.ssm_norm",
     MODEL_TENSOR.SSM_OUT:                   "blk.{bid}.ssm_out",
+    MODEL_TENSOR.SSM_BETA_ALPHA:            "blk.{bid}.ssm_ba",
     MODEL_TENSOR.TIME_MIX_W0:               "blk.{bid}.time_mix_w0",
     MODEL_TENSOR.TIME_MIX_W1:               "blk.{bid}.time_mix_w1",
     MODEL_TENSOR.TIME_MIX_W2:               "blk.{bid}.time_mix_w2",
@@ -1569,6 +1573,35 @@ MODEL_TENSORS: dict[MODEL_ARCH, list[MODEL_TENSOR]] = {
         MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_DOWN_EXP,
         MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_UP_EXP,
     ],
+    MODEL_ARCH.QWEN3NEXT: [
+        MODEL_TENSOR.TOKEN_EMBD,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.OUTPUT_NORM,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.OUTPUT,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_NORM,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_Q,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_Q_NORM,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_K,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_K_NORM,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_V,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_OUT,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_POST_NORM,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_GATE,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_GATE_INP,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_GATE_INP_SHEXP,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_UP_SHEXP,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_DOWN_SHEXP,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_GATE_SHEXP,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_DOWN_EXP,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_UP_EXP,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_GATE_EXP,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.SSM_A,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.SSM_CONV1D,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.SSM_DT,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.SSM_NORM,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.SSM_IN,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.SSM_BETA_ALPHA,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.SSM_OUT
+    ],
     MODEL_ARCH.QWEN3VL: [
         MODEL_TENSOR.TOKEN_EMBD,
         MODEL_TENSOR.OUTPUT_NORM,

gguf-py/gguf/tensor_mapping.py

@@ -676,6 +676,7 @@ class TensorNameMap:
             "backbone.layers.{bid}.mixer.in_proj",          # mamba
             "model.layers.{bid}.mamba.in_proj",             # jamba falcon-h1 granite-hybrid
             "model.layers.layers.{bid}.mixer.in_proj",      # plamo2
+            "model.layers.{bid}.linear_attn.in_proj_qkvz",  # qwen3next
         ),
 
         MODEL_TENSOR.SSM_CONV1D: (
@@ -683,6 +684,7 @@ class TensorNameMap:
             "backbone.layers.{bid}.mixer.conv1d",      # mamba
             "model.layers.{bid}.mamba.conv1d",         # jamba falcon-h1 granite-hybrid
             "model.layers.layers.{bid}.mixer.conv1d",  # plamo2
+            "model.layers.{bid}.linear_attn.conv1d",   # qwen3next
         ),
 
         MODEL_TENSOR.SSM_X: (
@@ -697,6 +699,7 @@ class TensorNameMap:
             "backbone.layers.{bid}.mixer.dt_proj",      # mamba
             "model.layers.{bid}.mamba.dt_proj",         # jamba falcon-h1 granite-hybrid
             "model.layers.layers.{bid}.mixer.dt_proj",  # plamo2
+            "model.layers.{bid}.linear_attn.dt_proj",   # qwen3next
         ),
 
         MODEL_TENSOR.SSM_DT_NORM: (
@@ -709,6 +712,7 @@ class TensorNameMap:
             "backbone.layers.{bid}.mixer.A_log",      # mamba
             "model.layers.{bid}.mamba.A_log",         # jamba falcon-h1 granite-hybrid
             "model.layers.layers.{bid}.mixer.A_log",  # plamo2
+            "model.layers.{bid}.linear_attn.A_log",   # qwen3next
         ),
 
         MODEL_TENSOR.SSM_B_NORM: (
@@ -732,6 +736,7 @@ class TensorNameMap:
 
         MODEL_TENSOR.SSM_NORM: (
             "model.layers.{bid}.mamba.norm",        # falcon-h1 granite-hybrid
+            "model.layers.{bid}.linear_attn.norm",  # qwen3next
             "backbone.layers.{bid}.mixer.norm",     # mamba2
         ),
 
@@ -739,9 +744,14 @@ class TensorNameMap:
             "model.layers.{bid}.out_proj",               # mamba-hf
             "backbone.layers.{bid}.mixer.out_proj",      # mamba
             "model.layers.{bid}.mamba.out_proj",         # jamba falcon-h1 granite-hybrid
+            "model.layers.{bid}.linear_attn.out_proj",   # qwen3next
             "model.layers.layers.{bid}.mixer.out_proj",  # plamo2
         ),
 
+        MODEL_TENSOR.SSM_BETA_ALPHA: (
+            "model.layers.{bid}.linear_attn.in_proj_ba",  # qwen3next
+        ),
+
         MODEL_TENSOR.TIME_MIX_W0: (
             "model.layers.{bid}.attention.w0",            # rwkv7
         ),

src/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ add_library(llama
             models/qwen3vl.cpp
             models/qwen3vl-moe.cpp
             models/qwen3moe.cpp
+            models/qwen3next.cpp
             models/refact.cpp
             models/rnd1.cpp
             models/rwkv6-base.cpp

src/llama-arch.cpp

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ static const std::map<llm_arch, const char *> LLM_ARCH_NAMES = {
     { LLM_ARCH_QWEN2VL,          "qwen2vl"          },
     { LLM_ARCH_QWEN3,            "qwen3"            },
     { LLM_ARCH_QWEN3MOE,         "qwen3moe"         },
+    { LLM_ARCH_QWEN3NEXT,        "qwen3next"        },
     { LLM_ARCH_QWEN3VL,          "qwen3vl"          },
     { LLM_ARCH_QWEN3VLMOE,       "qwen3vlmoe"       },
     { LLM_ARCH_PHI2,             "phi2"             },
@@ -829,6 +830,38 @@ static const std::map<llm_arch, std::map<llm_tensor, const char *>> LLM_TENSOR_N
             { LLM_TENSOR_FFN_UP_EXPS,        "blk.%d.ffn_up_exps" },
         },
     },
+    {
+        LLM_ARCH_QWEN3NEXT,
+        {
+            { LLM_TENSOR_TOKEN_EMBD,         "token_embd" },
+            { LLM_TENSOR_OUTPUT_NORM,        "output_norm" },
+            { LLM_TENSOR_OUTPUT,             "output" },
+            { LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_NORM,          "blk.%d.attn_norm" },
+            { LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_POST_NORM,     "blk.%d.post_attention_norm" },
+            { LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_Q,             "blk.%d.attn_q" },
+            { LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_Q_NORM,        "blk.%d.attn_q_norm" },
+            { LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_K,             "blk.%d.attn_k" },
+            { LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_K_NORM,        "blk.%d.attn_k_norm" },
+            { LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_V,             "blk.%d.attn_v" },
+            { LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_OUT,           "blk.%d.attn_output" },
+            { LLM_TENSOR_FFN_NORM,           "blk.%d.ffn_norm" },
+            { LLM_TENSOR_FFN_GATE_INP,       "blk.%d.ffn_gate_inp" },
+            { LLM_TENSOR_FFN_GATE_EXPS,      "blk.%d.ffn_gate_exps" },
+            { LLM_TENSOR_FFN_DOWN_EXPS,      "blk.%d.ffn_down_exps" },
+            { LLM_TENSOR_FFN_UP_EXPS,        "blk.%d.ffn_up_exps" },
+            { LLM_TENSOR_FFN_GATE_INP_SHEXP, "blk.%d.ffn_gate_inp_shexp" },
+            { LLM_TENSOR_FFN_GATE_SHEXP,     "blk.%d.ffn_gate_shexp" },
+            { LLM_TENSOR_FFN_DOWN_SHEXP,     "blk.%d.ffn_down_shexp" },
+            { LLM_TENSOR_FFN_UP_SHEXP,       "blk.%d.ffn_up_shexp" },
+            { LLM_TENSOR_SSM_A,              "blk.%d.ssm_a" },
+            { LLM_TENSOR_SSM_CONV1D,         "blk.%d.ssm_conv1d" },
+            { LLM_TENSOR_SSM_DT,             "blk.%d.ssm_dt" },
+            { LLM_TENSOR_SSM_BETA_ALPHA,     "blk.%d.ssm_ba" },
+            { LLM_TENSOR_SSM_IN,             "blk.%d.ssm_in" },
+            { LLM_TENSOR_SSM_NORM,           "blk.%d.ssm_norm" },
+            { LLM_TENSOR_SSM_OUT,            "blk.%d.ssm_out" },
+        },
+    },
     {
         LLM_ARCH_QWEN3VL,
         {
@@ -2556,6 +2589,7 @@ static const std::map<llm_tensor, llm_tensor_info> LLM_TENSOR_INFOS = {
     {LLM_TENSOR_SSM_X,                      {LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_REPEATING, GGML_OP_MUL_MAT}},
     {LLM_TENSOR_SSM_DT,                     {LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_REPEATING, GGML_OP_MUL_MAT}},
     {LLM_TENSOR_SSM_OUT,                    {LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_REPEATING, GGML_OP_MUL_MAT}},
+    {LLM_TENSOR_SSM_BETA_ALPHA,             {LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_REPEATING, GGML_OP_MUL_MAT}},
     {LLM_TENSOR_TIME_MIX_W1,                {LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_REPEATING, GGML_OP_MUL_MAT}},
     {LLM_TENSOR_TIME_MIX_W2,                {LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_REPEATING, GGML_OP_MUL_MAT}},
     {LLM_TENSOR_TIME_MIX_A1,                {LLM_TENSOR_LAYER_REPEATING, GGML_OP_MUL_MAT}},
@@ -2754,6 +2788,7 @@ bool llm_arch_is_hybrid(const llm_arch & arch) {
         case LLM_ARCH_LFM2:
         case LLM_ARCH_LFM2MOE:
         case LLM_ARCH_NEMOTRON_H:
+        case LLM_ARCH_QWEN3NEXT:
             return true;
         default:
             return false;

src/llama-arch.h

@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ enum llm_arch {
     LLM_ARCH_QWEN2VL,
     LLM_ARCH_QWEN3,
     LLM_ARCH_QWEN3MOE,
+    LLM_ARCH_QWEN3NEXT,
     LLM_ARCH_QWEN3VL,
     LLM_ARCH_QWEN3VLMOE,
     LLM_ARCH_PHI2,
@@ -381,6 +382,7 @@ enum llm_tensor {
     LLM_TENSOR_SSM_D,
     LLM_TENSOR_SSM_NORM,
     LLM_TENSOR_SSM_OUT,
+    LLM_TENSOR_SSM_BETA_ALPHA,      // qwen3next
     LLM_TENSOR_TIME_MIX_W0,
     LLM_TENSOR_TIME_MIX_W1,
     LLM_TENSOR_TIME_MIX_W2,

src/llama-context.cpp

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #include "llama-context.h"
 
+#include "llama-arch.h"
 #include "llama-impl.h"
 #include "llama-batch.h"
 #include "llama-io.h"
@@ -1386,6 +1387,9 @@ void llama_context::output_reorder() {
 //
 
 uint32_t llama_context::graph_max_nodes() const {
+    if (model.arch == LLM_ARCH_QWEN3NEXT) {
+        return std::max<uint32_t>(8192u, 32u*model.n_tensors());
+    }
     return std::max<uint32_t>(1024u, 8u*model.n_tensors());
 }
 

src/llama-hparams.h

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 // bump if necessary
 #define LLAMA_MAX_LAYERS  512
-#define LLAMA_MAX_EXPERTS 384  // Kimi-K2
+#define LLAMA_MAX_EXPERTS 512 // Qwen3 Next
 
 enum llama_expert_gating_func_type {
     LLAMA_EXPERT_GATING_FUNC_TYPE_NONE           = 0,

src/llama-model.cpp

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 #include "llama-impl.h"
 #include "llama-mmap.h"
-#include "llama-batch.h"
 #include "llama-cparams.h"
 #include "llama-model-loader.h"
 
@@ -2225,6 +2224,29 @@ void llama_model::load_hparams(llama_model_loader & ml) {
                     default: type = LLM_TYPE_UNKNOWN;
                 }
             } break;
+        case LLM_ARCH_QWEN3NEXT:
+            {
+                ml.get_key(LLM_KV_EXPERT_FEED_FORWARD_LENGTH,        hparams.n_ff_exp, false);
+                ml.get_key(LLM_KV_EXPERT_SHARED_FEED_FORWARD_LENGTH, hparams.n_ff_shexp, false);
+                ml.get_key(LLM_KV_ATTENTION_LAYERNORM_RMS_EPS,       hparams.f_norm_rms_eps);
+
+                // Load linear attention (gated delta net) parameters
+                ml.get_key(LLM_KV_SSM_CONV_KERNEL,    hparams.ssm_d_conv);
+                ml.get_key(LLM_KV_SSM_INNER_SIZE,     hparams.ssm_d_inner);
+                ml.get_key(LLM_KV_SSM_STATE_SIZE,     hparams.ssm_d_state);
+                ml.get_key(LLM_KV_SSM_TIME_STEP_RANK, hparams.ssm_dt_rank);
+                ml.get_key(LLM_KV_SSM_GROUP_COUNT,    hparams.ssm_n_group);
+
+                // Mark recurrent layers (linear attention layers)
+                for (uint32_t i = 0; i < hparams.n_layer; ++i) {
+                    hparams.recurrent_layer_arr[i] = ((i + 1) % 4 != 0); // TODO: extract the magic 4 from "full_attention_interval"
+                }
+
+                switch (hparams.n_layer) {
+                    case 80: type = LLM_TYPE_80B_A3B; break;
+                    default: type = LLM_TYPE_UNKNOWN;
+                }
+            } break;
         default: throw std::runtime_error("unsupported model architecture");
     }
 
@@ -6415,6 +6437,74 @@ bool llama_model::load_tensors(llama_model_loader & ml) {
                         layer.ffn_up   = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_UP,   "weight", i), {n_embd,   n_ff}, 0);
                     }
                 } break;
+            case LLM_ARCH_QWEN3NEXT:
+                {
+                    tok_embd = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_TOKEN_EMBD, "weight"), { n_embd, n_vocab }, 0);
+
+                    // output
+                    output_norm = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_OUTPUT_NORM, "weight"), { n_embd }, 0);
+                    output = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_OUTPUT, "weight"), { n_embd, n_vocab }, TENSOR_NOT_REQUIRED);
+
+                    // if output is NULL, init from the input tok embed
+                    if (output == NULL) {
+                        output = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_TOKEN_EMBD, "weight"), { n_embd, n_vocab }, TENSOR_DUPLICATED);
+                    }
+
+                    const int64_t n_ff_exp = hparams.n_ff_exp ? hparams.n_ff_exp : n_ff / n_expert_used;
+
+                    // Calculate dimensions from hyperparameters
+                    const int64_t head_k_dim = hparams.ssm_d_state;
+                    const int64_t head_v_dim = hparams.ssm_d_state;
+                    const int64_t n_k_heads  = hparams.ssm_n_group;
+                    const int64_t n_v_heads  = hparams.ssm_dt_rank;
+                    const int64_t key_dim    = head_k_dim * n_k_heads;
+                    const int64_t value_dim  = head_v_dim * n_v_heads;
+                    const int64_t conv_dim   = key_dim * 2 + value_dim;
+
+                    // Calculate projection sizes
+                    const int64_t qkvz_dim = key_dim * 2 + value_dim * 2;
+                    const int64_t ba_dim   = n_v_heads * 2;
+
+                    for (int i = 0; i < n_layer; ++i) {
+                        auto & layer = layers[i];
+
+                        layer.attn_norm      = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_NORM,      "weight", i), { n_embd }, 0);
+                        layer.attn_post_norm = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_POST_NORM, "weight", i), { n_embd }, 0);
+
+                        if (!hparams.is_recurrent(i)) {
+                            // Attention layers
+                            layer.wq = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_Q,   "weight", i), { n_embd, n_embd_head_k * n_head * 2 }, 0);
+                            layer.wk = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_K,   "weight", i), { n_embd, n_embd_k_gqa }, 0);
+                            layer.wv = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_V,   "weight", i), { n_embd, n_embd_v_gqa }, 0);
+                            layer.wo = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_OUT, "weight", i), { n_embd_head_k * n_head, n_embd }, 0);
+
+                            // Q/K normalization for attention layers
+                            layer.attn_q_norm = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_Q_NORM, "weight", i), { n_embd_head_k }, 0);
+                            layer.attn_k_norm = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_K_NORM, "weight", i), { n_embd_head_k }, 0);
+                        } else {
+                            // Linear attention (gated delta net) specific tensors
+                            // Create tensors with calculated dimensions
+                            layer.ssm_in         = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_SSM_IN,         "weight", i), { n_embd, qkvz_dim }, 0);
+                            layer.ssm_conv1d     = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_SSM_CONV1D,     "weight", i), { hparams.ssm_d_conv, conv_dim }, 0);
+                            layer.ssm_dt         = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_SSM_DT,         "bias",   i), { hparams.ssm_dt_rank }, 0);
+                            layer.ssm_a          = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_SSM_A,                    i), { hparams.ssm_dt_rank }, 0);
+                            layer.ssm_beta_alpha = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_SSM_BETA_ALPHA, "weight", i), { n_embd, ba_dim }, 0);
+                            layer.ssm_norm       = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_SSM_NORM,       "weight", i), { head_v_dim }, 0);
+                            layer.ssm_out        = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_SSM_OUT,        "weight", i), { value_dim, n_embd }, 0);
+                        }
+
+                        layer.ffn_gate_inp  = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_GATE_INP,  "weight", i), { n_embd, n_expert }, 0);
+                        layer.ffn_gate_exps = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_GATE_EXPS, "weight", i), { n_embd, n_ff_exp, n_expert }, 0);
+                        layer.ffn_down_exps = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_DOWN_EXPS, "weight", i), { n_ff_exp, n_embd, n_expert }, 0);
+                        layer.ffn_up_exps   = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_UP_EXPS,   "weight", i), { n_embd, n_ff_exp, n_expert }, 0);
+
+                        // Shared experts
+                        layer.ffn_gate_inp_shexp = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_GATE_INP_SHEXP, "weight", i), { n_embd }, 0);
+                        layer.ffn_gate_shexp     = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_GATE_SHEXP,     "weight", i), { n_embd, hparams.n_ff_shexp }, 0);
+                        layer.ffn_up_shexp       = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_UP_SHEXP,       "weight", i), { n_embd, hparams.n_ff_shexp }, 0);
+                        layer.ffn_down_shexp     = create_tensor(tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_DOWN_SHEXP,     "weight", i), { hparams.n_ff_shexp, n_embd }, 0);
+                    }
+                } break;
             default:
                 throw std::runtime_error("unknown architecture");
         }
@@ -6685,6 +6775,7 @@ void llama_model::print_info() const {
         arch == LLM_ARCH_FALCON_H1 ||
         arch == LLM_ARCH_PLAMO2 ||
         arch == LLM_ARCH_GRANITE_HYBRID ||
+        arch == LLM_ARCH_QWEN3NEXT ||
         arch == LLM_ARCH_NEMOTRON_H) {
         LLAMA_LOG_INFO("%s: ssm_d_conv       = %u\n",     __func__, hparams.ssm_d_conv);
         LLAMA_LOG_INFO("%s: ssm_d_inner      = %u\n",     __func__, hparams.ssm_d_inner);
@@ -7427,6 +7518,10 @@ ggml_cgraph * llama_model::build_graph(const llm_graph_params & params) const {
             {
                 llm = std::make_unique<llm_build_pangu_embedded>(*this, params);
             } break;
+        case LLM_ARCH_QWEN3NEXT:
+            {
+                llm = std::make_unique<llm_build_qwen3next>(*this, params);
+            } break;
         default:
             GGML_ABORT("fatal error");
     }
@@ -7653,6 +7748,7 @@ llama_rope_type llama_model_rope_type(const llama_model * model) {
         case LLM_ARCH_COGVLM:
         case LLM_ARCH_PANGU_EMBED:
         case LLM_ARCH_AFMOE:
+        case LLM_ARCH_QWEN3NEXT:
             return LLAMA_ROPE_TYPE_NEOX;
 
         case LLM_ARCH_QWEN2VL:

src/llama-model.h

@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ enum llm_type {
     LLM_TYPE_16B_A1B,
     LLM_TYPE_21B_A3B, // Ernie MoE small
     LLM_TYPE_30B_A3B,
+    LLM_TYPE_80B_A3B, // Qwen3 Next
     LLM_TYPE_100B_A6B,
     LLM_TYPE_106B_A12B, // GLM-4.5-Air
     LLM_TYPE_230B_A10B, // Minimax M2
@@ -309,6 +310,9 @@ struct llama_layer {
     struct ggml_tensor * ssm_conv1d_b = nullptr;
     struct ggml_tensor * ssm_dt_b     = nullptr;
 
+    // qwen3next
+    struct ggml_tensor * ssm_beta_alpha = nullptr;
+
     // rwkv
     struct ggml_tensor * time_mix_w1         = nullptr;
     struct ggml_tensor * time_mix_w2         = nullptr;

src/llama-quant.cpp

@@ -681,7 +681,9 @@ static void llama_model_quantize_impl(const std::string & fname_inp, const std::
             }
             LLAMA_LOG_DEBUG("%s: pruning tensor %s\n", __func__, it.first.c_str());
             continue;
-        } else if (remapped_name != it.first) {
+        }
+
+        if (remapped_name != it.first) {
             ggml_set_name(it.second.tensor, remapped_name.c_str());
             LLAMA_LOG_DEBUG("%s: tensor %s remapped to %s\n", __func__, it.first.c_str(), ggml_get_name(it.second.tensor));
         }
@@ -726,13 +728,19 @@ static void llama_model_quantize_impl(const std::string & fname_inp, const std::
     {
         const auto & n_head_kv_iter = model.hparams.n_head_kv_arr.begin();
         // attention layers have a non-zero number of kv heads
-        int32_t n_attn_layer = model.hparams.n_layer - std::count(n_head_kv_iter, n_head_kv_iter + model.hparams.n_layer, 0);
+        int32_t n_layer_attn = model.hparams.n_layer - std::count(n_head_kv_iter, n_head_kv_iter + model.hparams.n_layer, 0);
         if (llama_model_has_encoder(&model)) {
-            // now n_attn_layer is the number of attention layers in the encoder
+            // now n_layer_attn is the number of attention layers in the encoder
             // for each decoder block, there are 2 attention layers
-            n_attn_layer += 2 * model.hparams.dec_n_layer;
+            n_layer_attn += 2 * model.hparams.dec_n_layer;
         }
-        GGML_ASSERT((qs.n_attention_wv == n_attn_layer - pruned_attention_w) && "n_attention_wv is unexpected");
+
+        // note: for linear-attention models (such as Qwen3 Next) this is the number of linear layers
+        const int32_t n_layer_recr = std::count(model.hparams.recurrent_layer_arr.begin(), model.hparams.recurrent_layer_arr.end(), true);
+
+        LLAMA_LOG_INFO("%s: n_layer_attn = %d, n_layer_recr = %d, pruned_attention_w = %d\n", __func__, n_layer_attn, n_layer_recr, pruned_attention_w);
+
+        GGML_ASSERT((qs.n_attention_wv == n_layer_attn - pruned_attention_w - n_layer_recr) && "n_attention_wv is unexpected");
     }
 
     size_t total_size_org = 0;

src/models/models.h

@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@
 
 #include "../llama-model.h"
 #include "../llama-graph.h"
-#include "../llama-memory-recurrent.h"
 
+// TODO: remove in follow-up PR - move to .cpp files
+#include "../llama-memory-recurrent.h"
 #include <cmath>
 
 struct llm_graph_context_mamba : public llm_graph_context {
@@ -421,7 +422,56 @@ struct llm_build_qwen3vl : public llm_graph_context {
 struct llm_build_qwen3vlmoe : public llm_graph_context {
     llm_build_qwen3vlmoe(const llama_model & model, const llm_graph_params & params);
 };
+struct llm_build_qwen3next : public llm_graph_context_mamba {
+    llm_build_qwen3next(const llama_model & model, const llm_graph_params & params);
+private:
+    ggml_tensor * build_layer_attn(
+    llm_graph_input_attn_kv * inp_attn,
+                ggml_tensor * cur,
+                ggml_tensor * inp_pos,
+                        int   il);
 
+    ggml_tensor * build_layer_attn_linear(
+         llm_graph_input_rs * inp,
+                ggml_tensor * cur,
+                ggml_tensor * causal_mask,
+                ggml_tensor * identity,
+                        int   il);
+
+    ggml_tensor * build_layer_ffn(
+                ggml_tensor * cur,
+                        int   il);
+
+    ggml_tensor * build_delta_net_recurrent(
+                ggml_tensor * q,
+                ggml_tensor * k,
+                ggml_tensor * v,
+                ggml_tensor * g,
+                ggml_tensor * beta,
+                ggml_tensor * state,
+                ggml_tensor * causal_mask,
+                ggml_tensor * identity,
+                        int   il);
+
+    ggml_tensor * build_delta_net_chunking(
+                ggml_tensor * q,
+                ggml_tensor * k,
+                ggml_tensor * v,
+                ggml_tensor * g,
+                ggml_tensor * beta,
+                ggml_tensor * state,
+                ggml_tensor * causal_mask,
+                ggml_tensor * identity,
+                        int   il);
+
+    ggml_tensor * build_norm_gated(
+                ggml_tensor * input,
+                ggml_tensor * weights,
+                ggml_tensor * gate,
+                        int   layer);
+
+    const llama_model & model;
+};
 
 struct llm_build_qwen : public llm_graph_context {
     llm_build_qwen(const llama_model & model, const llm_graph_params & params);