diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/quantized-qwen3/README.md b/candle-examples/examples/quantized-qwen3/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2260536c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/quantized-qwen3/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# candle-quantized-qwen3
+
+[Qwen3]((https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen3/)) is an upgraded version of Qwen2.5, released by Alibaba Cloud.
+
+## Running the example
+
+```bash
+cargo run --example quantized-qwen3 --release -- --prompt "Write a function to count prime numbers up to N."
+```
+
+0.6b is used by default, 1.7b, 4b, 8b, 14b, and 32b models are available via `--model` argument.
diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/quantized-qwen3/main.rs b/candle-examples/examples/quantized-qwen3/main.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b57466be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/quantized-qwen3/main.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,314 @@
+#[cfg(feature = "mkl")]
+extern crate intel_mkl_src;
+
+#[cfg(feature = "accelerate")]
+extern crate accelerate_src;
+
+use clap::{Parser, ValueEnum};
+use std::io::Write;
+use tokenizers::Tokenizer;
+
+use candle::quantized::gguf_file;
+use candle::Tensor;
+use candle_transformers::generation::{LogitsProcessor, Sampling};
+
+use candle_examples::token_output_stream::TokenOutputStream;
+use candle_transformers::models::quantized_qwen3::ModelWeights as Qwen3;
+
+const DEFAULT_PROMPT: &str = "Write a Rust function to calculate the factorial of a given number.";
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, ValueEnum)]
+enum Which {
+    #[value(name = "0.6b")]
+    W3_0_6b,
+    #[value(name = "1.7b")]
+    W3_1_7b,
+    #[value(name = "4b")]
+    W3_4b,
+    #[value(name = "8b")]
+    W3_8b,
+    #[value(name = "14b")]
+    W3_14b,
+    #[value(name = "32b")]
+    W3_32b,
+}
+
+#[derive(Parser, Debug)]
+#[command(author, version, about, long_about = None)]
+struct Args {
+    /// GGUF file to load, typically a .gguf file generated by the quantize command from llama.cpp
+    #[arg(long)]
+    model: Option<String>,
+
+    /// The initial prompt, use 'interactive' for entering multiple prompts in an interactive way
+    /// and 'chat' for an interactive model where history of previous prompts and generated tokens
+    /// is preserved.
+    #[arg(long)]
+    prompt: Option<String>,
+
+    /// The length of the sample to generate (in tokens).
+    #[arg(short = 'n', long, default_value_t = 1000)]
+    sample_len: usize,
+
+    /// The tokenizer config in json format.
+    #[arg(long)]
+    tokenizer: Option<String>,
+
+    /// The temperature used to generate samples, use 0 for greedy sampling.
+    #[arg(long, default_value_t = 0.8)]
+    temperature: f64,
+
+    /// Nucleus sampling probability cutoff.
+    #[arg(long)]
+    top_p: Option<f64>,
+
+    /// Only sample among the top K samples.
+    #[arg(long)]
+    top_k: Option<usize>,
+
+    /// The seed to use when generating random samples.
+    #[arg(long, default_value_t = 299792458)]
+    seed: u64,
+
+    /// Enable tracing (generates a trace-timestamp.json file).
+    #[arg(long)]
+    tracing: bool,
+
+    /// Process prompt elements separately.
+    #[arg(long)]
+    split_prompt: bool,
+
+    /// Run on CPU rather than GPU even if a GPU is available.
+    #[arg(long)]
+    cpu: bool,
+
+    /// Penalty to be applied for repeating tokens, 1. means no penalty.
+    #[arg(long, default_value_t = 1.1)]
+    repeat_penalty: f32,
+
+    /// The context size to consider for the repeat penalty.
+    #[arg(long, default_value_t = 64)]
+    repeat_last_n: usize,
+
+    /// The model size to use.
+    #[arg(long, default_value = "0.6b")]
+    which: Which,
+}
+
+impl Args {
+    fn tokenizer(&self) -> anyhow::Result<Tokenizer> {
+        let tokenizer_path = match &self.tokenizer {
+            Some(config) => std::path::PathBuf::from(config),
+            None => {
+                let api = hf_hub::api::sync::Api::new()?;
+                let repo = match self.which {
+                    Which::W3_0_6b => "Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B",
+                    Which::W3_1_7b => "Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B",
+                    Which::W3_4b => "Qwen/Qwen3-4B",
+                    Which::W3_8b => "Qwen/Qwen3-8B",
+                    Which::W3_14b => "Qwen/Qwen3-14B",
+                    Which::W3_32b => "Qwen/Qwen3-32B",
+                };
+                let api = api.model(repo.to_string());
+                api.get("tokenizer.json")?
+            }
+        };
+        Tokenizer::from_file(tokenizer_path).map_err(anyhow::Error::msg)
+    }
+
+    fn model(&self) -> anyhow::Result<std::path::PathBuf> {
+        let model_path = match &self.model {
+            Some(config) => std::path::PathBuf::from(config),
+            None => {
+                let (repo, filename, revision) = match self.which {
+                    Which::W3_0_6b => ("unsloth/Qwen3-0.6B-GGUF", "Qwen3-0.6B-Q4_K_M.gguf", "main"),
+                    Which::W3_1_7b => ("unsloth/Qwen3-1.7B-GGUF", "Qwen3-1.7B-Q4_K_M.gguf", "main"),
+                    Which::W3_4b => ("unsloth/Qwen3-4B-GGUF", "Qwen3-4B-Q4_K_M.gguf", "main"),
+                    Which::W3_8b => ("unsloth/Qwen3-8B-GGUF", "Qwen3-8B-Q4_K_M.gguf", "main"),
+                    Which::W3_14b => ("unsloth/Qwen3-14B-GGUF", "Qwen3-14B-Q4_K_M.gguf", "main"),
+                    Which::W3_32b => ("unsloth/Qwen3-32B-GGUF", "Qwen3-32B-Q4_K_M.gguf", "main"),
+                };
+                let api = hf_hub::api::sync::Api::new()?;
+                api.repo(hf_hub::Repo::with_revision(
+                    repo.to_string(),
+                    hf_hub::RepoType::Model,
+                    revision.to_string(),
+                ))
+                .get(filename)?
+            }
+        };
+        Ok(model_path)
+    }
+}
+
+fn format_size(size_in_bytes: usize) -> String {
+    if size_in_bytes < 1_000 {
+        format!("{}B", size_in_bytes)
+    } else if size_in_bytes < 1_000_000 {
+        format!("{:.2}KB", size_in_bytes as f64 / 1e3)
+    } else if size_in_bytes < 1_000_000_000 {
+        format!("{:.2}MB", size_in_bytes as f64 / 1e6)
+    } else {
+        format!("{:.2}GB", size_in_bytes as f64 / 1e9)
+    }
+}
+
+fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+    use tracing_chrome::ChromeLayerBuilder;
+    use tracing_subscriber::prelude::*;
+
+    let args = Args::parse();
+    let _guard = if args.tracing {
+        let (chrome_layer, guard) = ChromeLayerBuilder::new().build();
+        tracing_subscriber::registry().with(chrome_layer).init();
+        Some(guard)
+    } else {
+        None
+    };
+
+    println!(
+        "avx: {}, neon: {}, simd128: {}, f16c: {}",
+        candle::utils::with_avx(),
+        candle::utils::with_neon(),
+        candle::utils::with_simd128(),
+        candle::utils::with_f16c()
+    );
+    println!(
+        "temp: {:.2} repeat-penalty: {:.2} repeat-last-n: {}",
+        args.temperature, args.repeat_penalty, args.repeat_last_n
+    );
+
+    let model_path = args.model()?;
+    let mut file = std::fs::File::open(&model_path)?;
+    let start = std::time::Instant::now();
+    let device = candle_examples::device(args.cpu)?;
+
+    let mut model = {
+        let model = gguf_file::Content::read(&mut file).map_err(|e| e.with_path(model_path))?;
+        let mut total_size_in_bytes = 0;
+        for (_, tensor) in model.tensor_infos.iter() {
+            let elem_count = tensor.shape.elem_count();
+            total_size_in_bytes +=
+                elem_count * tensor.ggml_dtype.type_size() / tensor.ggml_dtype.block_size();
+        }
+        println!(
+            "loaded {:?} tensors ({}) in {:.2}s",
+            model.tensor_infos.len(),
+            &format_size(total_size_in_bytes),
+            start.elapsed().as_secs_f32(),
+        );
+        Qwen3::from_gguf(model, &mut file, &device)?
+    };
+    println!("model built");
+
+    let tokenizer = args.tokenizer()?;
+    let mut tos = TokenOutputStream::new(tokenizer);
+    let prompt_str = args
+        .prompt
+        .clone()
+        .unwrap_or_else(|| DEFAULT_PROMPT.to_string());
+
+    let prompt_str = format!("<|im_start|>user\n{prompt_str}<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>assistant\n");
+    print!("formatted prompt: {}", &prompt_str);
+
+    let tokens = tos
+        .tokenizer()
+        .encode(prompt_str, true)
+        .map_err(anyhow::Error::msg)?;
+
+    let tokens = tokens.get_ids();
+
+    let to_sample = args.sample_len.saturating_sub(1);
+
+    let mut all_tokens = vec![];
+
+    let mut logits_processor = {
+        let temperature = args.temperature;
+        let sampling = if temperature <= 0. {
+            Sampling::ArgMax
+        } else {
+            match (args.top_k, args.top_p) {
+                (None, None) => Sampling::All { temperature },
+                (Some(k), None) => Sampling::TopK { k, temperature },
+                (None, Some(p)) => Sampling::TopP { p, temperature },
+                (Some(k), Some(p)) => Sampling::TopKThenTopP { k, p, temperature },
+            }
+        };
+        LogitsProcessor::from_sampling(args.seed, sampling)
+    };
+
+    let start_prompt_processing = std::time::Instant::now();
+
+    let mut next_token = if !args.split_prompt {
+        let input = Tensor::new(tokens, &device)?.unsqueeze(0)?;
+        let logits = model.forward(&input, 0)?;
+        let logits = logits.squeeze(0)?;
+        logits_processor.sample(&logits)?
+    } else {
+        let mut next_token = 0;
+        for (pos, token) in tokens.iter().enumerate() {
+            let input = Tensor::new(&[*token], &device)?.unsqueeze(0)?;
+            let logits = model.forward(&input, pos)?;
+            let logits = logits.squeeze(0)?;
+            next_token = logits_processor.sample(&logits)?
+        }
+        next_token
+    };
+
+    let prompt_dt = start_prompt_processing.elapsed();
+
+    all_tokens.push(next_token);
+
+    if let Some(t) = tos.next_token(next_token)? {
+        print!("{t}");
+        std::io::stdout().flush()?;
+    }
+
+    let eos_token = *tos.tokenizer().get_vocab(true).get("<|im_end|>").unwrap();
+
+    let start_post_prompt = std::time::Instant::now();
+
+    let mut sampled = 0;
+    for index in 0..to_sample {
+        let input = Tensor::new(&[next_token], &device)?.unsqueeze(0)?;
+        let logits = model.forward(&input, tokens.len() + index)?;
+        let logits = logits.squeeze(0)?;
+        let logits = if args.repeat_penalty == 1. {
+            logits
+        } else {
+            let start_at = all_tokens.len().saturating_sub(args.repeat_last_n);
+            candle_transformers::utils::apply_repeat_penalty(
+                &logits,
+                args.repeat_penalty,
+                &all_tokens[start_at..],
+            )?
+        };
+        next_token = logits_processor.sample(&logits)?;
+        all_tokens.push(next_token);
+        if let Some(t) = tos.next_token(next_token)? {
+            print!("{t}");
+            std::io::stdout().flush()?;
+        }
+        sampled += 1;
+        if next_token == eos_token {
+            break;
+        };
+    }
+
+    if let Some(rest) = tos.decode_rest().map_err(candle::Error::msg)? {
+        print!("{rest}");
+    }
+
+    std::io::stdout().flush()?;
+    let dt = start_post_prompt.elapsed();
+    println!(
+        "\n\n{:4} prompt tokens processed: {:.2} token/s",
+        tokens.len(),
+        tokens.len() as f64 / prompt_dt.as_secs_f64(),
+    );
+    println!(
+        "{sampled:4} tokens generated: {:.2} token/s",
+        sampled as f64 / dt.as_secs_f64(),
+    );
+    Ok(())
+}
diff --git a/candle-transformers/src/models/mod.rs b/candle-transformers/src/models/mod.rs
index 27f3b963..790ad439 100644
--- a/candle-transformers/src/models/mod.rs
+++ b/candle-transformers/src/models/mod.rs
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ pub mod quantized_mpt;
 pub mod quantized_phi;
 pub mod quantized_phi3;
 pub mod quantized_qwen2;
+pub mod quantized_qwen3;
 pub mod quantized_recurrent_gemma;
 pub mod quantized_rwkv_v5;
 pub mod quantized_rwkv_v6;
diff --git a/candle-transformers/src/models/quantized_qwen3.rs b/candle-transformers/src/models/quantized_qwen3.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..34dba8cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/candle-transformers/src/models/quantized_qwen3.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,428 @@
+//! Qwen3 implementation with quantization support.
+//!
+//! Based on the Qwen3 architecture and implemented with quantized weights
+//! for reduced memory usage and faster inference on compatible hardware.
+//!
+//! References:
+//! - [Qwen3 Models](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B) (architecture based on official implementations)
+//!
+use super::with_tracing::QMatMul;
+use crate::{quantized_nn::RmsNorm, utils::repeat_kv};
+use candle::quantized::{gguf_file, QTensor};
+use candle::{DType, Device, Result, Tensor};
+use candle_nn::{kv_cache::KvCache, Activation, Embedding, Module};
+use std::io::{Read, Seek};
+use std::sync::Arc;
+
+struct Gguf<R: Read + Seek> {
+    ct: gguf_file::Content,
+    reader: R,
+    device: Device,
+}
+
+impl<R: Read + Seek> Gguf<R> {
+    fn new(ct: gguf_file::Content, reader: R, device: Device) -> Self {
+        Self { ct, reader, device }
+    }
+
+    fn qmatmul(&mut self, name: &str) -> Result<QMatMul> {
+        let ws = self.ct.tensor(&mut self.reader, name, &self.device)?;
+        QMatMul::from_weights(ws.into())
+    }
+
+    fn rms_norm(&mut self, name: &str, eps: f64) -> Result<RmsNorm> {
+        let ws = self.ct.tensor(&mut self.reader, name, &self.device)?;
+        RmsNorm::from_qtensor(ws, eps)
+    }
+
+    fn metadata(&self) -> &std::collections::HashMap<String, gguf_file::Value> {
+        &self.ct.metadata
+    }
+
+    fn tensor(&mut self, name: &str) -> Result<QTensor> {
+        self.ct.tensor(&mut self.reader, name, &self.device)
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+struct MlpWeights {
+    gate_proj: QMatMul,
+    up_proj: QMatMul,
+    down_proj: QMatMul,
+    act_fn: Activation,
+    span: tracing::Span,
+}
+
+impl MlpWeights {
+    fn new<R: Read + Seek>(gg: &mut Gguf<R>, prefix: &str) -> Result<Self> {
+        let gate_proj = gg.qmatmul(&format!("{prefix}.ffn_gate.weight"))?;
+        let up_proj = gg.qmatmul(&format!("{prefix}.ffn_up.weight"))?;
+        let down_proj = gg.qmatmul(&format!("{prefix}.ffn_down.weight"))?;
+        let act_fn = Activation::Silu;
+        let span = tracing::span!(tracing::Level::TRACE, "mlp");
+        Ok(Self {
+            gate_proj,
+            up_proj,
+            down_proj,
+            act_fn,
+            span,
+        })
+    }
+}
+
+impl Module for MlpWeights {
+    fn forward(&self, x: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let _enter = self.span.enter();
+        let gate = self.gate_proj.forward(x)?.apply(&self.act_fn)?;
+        let up = self.up_proj.forward(x)?;
+        let gated = (gate * up)?;
+        self.down_proj.forward(&gated)
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+struct RotaryEmbedding {
+    sin: Tensor,
+    cos: Tensor,
+}
+
+impl RotaryEmbedding {
+    fn new(
+        dtype: DType,
+        head_dim: usize,
+        max_position_embeddings: usize,
+        rope_theta: f64,
+        dev: &Device,
+    ) -> Result<Self> {
+        let dim = head_dim;
+        let max_seq_len = max_position_embeddings;
+        let inv_freq: Vec<_> = (0..dim)
+            .step_by(2)
+            .map(|i| 1f32 / rope_theta.powf(i as f64 / dim as f64) as f32)
+            .collect();
+        let inv_freq_len = inv_freq.len();
+        let inv_freq = Tensor::from_vec(inv_freq, (1, inv_freq_len), dev)?.to_dtype(dtype)?;
+        let t = Tensor::arange(0u32, max_seq_len as u32, dev)?
+            .to_dtype(dtype)?
+            .reshape((max_seq_len, 1))?;
+        let freqs = t.matmul(&inv_freq)?;
+        Ok(Self {
+            sin: freqs.sin()?,
+            cos: freqs.cos()?,
+        })
+    }
+
+    /// Apply RoPE (q, k shape: B x H x L x D)
+    fn apply(&self, q: &Tensor, k: &Tensor, offset: usize) -> Result<(Tensor, Tensor)> {
+        let (_, _, seq_len, _) = q.dims4()?;
+        let cos = self.cos.narrow(0, offset, seq_len)?.to_dtype(q.dtype())?;
+        let sin = self.sin.narrow(0, offset, seq_len)?.to_dtype(q.dtype())?;
+        let q_embed = candle_nn::rotary_emb::rope(&q.contiguous()?, &cos, &sin)?;
+        let k_embed = candle_nn::rotary_emb::rope(&k.contiguous()?, &cos, &sin)?;
+        Ok((q_embed, k_embed))
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+struct AttentionWeights {
+    q_proj: QMatMul,
+    k_proj: QMatMul,
+    v_proj: QMatMul,
+    o_proj: QMatMul,
+    q_norm: RmsNorm,
+    k_norm: RmsNorm,
+    num_heads: usize,
+    num_kv_heads: usize,
+    num_kv_groups: usize,
+    head_dim: usize,
+    rotary_emb: Arc<RotaryEmbedding>,
+    kv_cache: KvCache,
+    span_attn: tracing::Span,
+}
+
+impl AttentionWeights {
+    fn new<R: Read + Seek>(
+        gg: &mut Gguf<R>,
+        num_heads: usize,
+        num_kv_heads: usize,
+        head_dim: usize,
+        rms_norm_eps: f64,
+        rotary_emb: Arc<RotaryEmbedding>,
+        prefix: &str,
+    ) -> Result<Self> {
+        let num_kv_groups = num_heads / num_kv_heads;
+
+        let q_proj = gg.qmatmul(&format!("{prefix}.attn_q.weight"))?;
+        let k_proj = gg.qmatmul(&format!("{prefix}.attn_k.weight"))?;
+        let v_proj = gg.qmatmul(&format!("{prefix}.attn_v.weight"))?;
+        let o_proj = gg.qmatmul(&format!("{prefix}.attn_output.weight"))?;
+
+        let q_norm = gg.rms_norm(&format!("{prefix}.attn_q_norm.weight"), rms_norm_eps)?;
+        let k_norm = gg.rms_norm(&format!("{prefix}.attn_k_norm.weight"), rms_norm_eps)?;
+
+        let max_position_embeddings = gg
+            .metadata()
+            .get("qwen3.context_length")
+            .and_then(|v| v.to_u32().ok())
+            .unwrap_or(4096) as usize;
+        let kv_cache = KvCache::new(2, max_position_embeddings);
+
+        let span_attn = tracing::span!(tracing::Level::TRACE, "attn");
+
+        Ok(Self {
+            q_proj,
+            k_proj,
+            v_proj,
+            o_proj,
+            q_norm,
+            k_norm,
+            num_heads,
+            num_kv_heads,
+            num_kv_groups,
+            head_dim,
+            rotary_emb,
+            kv_cache,
+            span_attn,
+        })
+    }
+
+    fn forward(&mut self, x: &Tensor, attn_mask: Option<&Tensor>, offset: usize) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let _enter = self.span_attn.enter();
+        let (b, l, _) = x.dims3()?;
+
+        let q = self.q_proj.forward(x)?;
+        let k = self.k_proj.forward(x)?;
+        let v = self.v_proj.forward(x)?;
+
+        let q = q
+            .reshape((b, l, self.num_heads, self.head_dim))?
+            .transpose(1, 2)?;
+        let k = k
+            .reshape((b, l, self.num_kv_heads, self.head_dim))?
+            .transpose(1, 2)?;
+        let v = v
+            .reshape((b, l, self.num_kv_heads, self.head_dim))?
+            .transpose(1, 2)?;
+
+        let q_flat = q.flatten(0, 2)?;
+        let k_flat = k.flatten(0, 2)?;
+
+        let q_flat = self.q_norm.forward(&q_flat)?;
+        let k_flat = self.k_norm.forward(&k_flat)?;
+        let q = q_flat.reshape((b, self.num_heads, l, self.head_dim))?;
+        let k = k_flat.reshape((b, self.num_kv_heads, l, self.head_dim))?;
+
+        let (q, k) = self.rotary_emb.apply(&q, &k, offset)?;
+
+        // Reset KV cache if we're at the first position
+        if offset == 0 {
+            self.kv_cache.reset();
+        }
+        let (k, v) = self.kv_cache.append(&k.contiguous()?, &v.contiguous()?)?;
+
+        let k = repeat_kv(k, self.num_kv_groups)?.contiguous()?;
+        let v = repeat_kv(v, self.num_kv_groups)?.contiguous()?;
+
+        let scale = 1.0 / (self.head_dim as f64).sqrt();
+        let mut scores = (q.matmul(&k.transpose(2, 3)?)? * scale)?;
+        if let Some(m) = attn_mask {
+            let m_dtype = m.dtype();
+            let scores_dtype = scores.dtype();
+            let mask = if m_dtype != scores_dtype {
+                m.to_dtype(scores_dtype)?
+            } else {
+                m.clone()
+            };
+            scores = scores.broadcast_add(&mask)?;
+        }
+        let probs = candle_nn::ops::softmax_last_dim(&scores)?;
+        let ctx = probs.matmul(&v)?; // (B, H, L, D)
+        let reshaped_ctx = ctx
+            .transpose(1, 2)?
+            .reshape((b, l, self.num_heads * self.head_dim))?;
+        self.o_proj.forward(&reshaped_ctx)
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+struct LayerWeights {
+    self_attn: AttentionWeights,
+    mlp: MlpWeights,
+    ln1: RmsNorm,
+    ln2: RmsNorm,
+}
+
+impl LayerWeights {
+    fn new<R: Read + Seek>(
+        gg: &mut Gguf<R>,
+        num_attention_heads: usize,
+        num_key_value_heads: usize,
+        head_dim: usize,
+        rms_norm_eps: f64,
+        rotary: Arc<RotaryEmbedding>,
+        layer_idx: usize,
+    ) -> Result<Self> {
+        let prefix = format!("blk.{layer_idx}");
+
+        let ln1 = gg.rms_norm(&format!("{prefix}.attn_norm.weight"), rms_norm_eps)?;
+        let ln2 = gg.rms_norm(&format!("{prefix}.ffn_norm.weight"), rms_norm_eps)?;
+        let self_attn = AttentionWeights::new(
+            gg,
+            num_attention_heads,
+            num_key_value_heads,
+            head_dim,
+            rms_norm_eps,
+            rotary,
+            &prefix,
+        )?;
+        let mlp = MlpWeights::new(gg, &prefix)?;
+        Ok(Self {
+            self_attn,
+            mlp,
+            ln1,
+            ln2,
+        })
+    }
+
+    fn forward(&mut self, x: &Tensor, mask: Option<&Tensor>, offset: usize) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let h = self.ln1.forward(x)?;
+        let h = self.self_attn.forward(&h, mask, offset)?;
+        let x = (x + h)?;
+        let h2 = self.ln2.forward(&x)?;
+        let h2 = h2.apply(&self.mlp)?;
+        x + h2
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub struct ModelWeights {
+    embed_tokens: Embedding,
+    layers: Vec<LayerWeights>,
+    norm: RmsNorm,
+    lm_head: QMatMul,
+    device: Device,
+    dtype: DType,
+    span: tracing::Span,
+    span_output: tracing::Span,
+}
+
+impl ModelWeights {
+    pub fn from_gguf<R: Read + Seek>(
+        ct: gguf_file::Content,
+        reader: &mut R,
+        device: &Device,
+    ) -> Result<Self> {
+        let mut gg = Gguf::new(ct, reader, device.clone());
+        let md_get = |s: &str| match gg.metadata().get(s) {
+            None => candle::bail!("cannot find {s} in metadata"),
+            Some(v) => Ok(v),
+        };
+
+        let num_attention_heads = md_get("qwen3.attention.head_count")?.to_u32()? as usize;
+        let num_kv_heads = md_get("qwen3.attention.head_count_kv")?.to_u32()? as usize;
+        let head_dim = md_get("qwen3.attention.key_length")?.to_u32()? as usize;
+        let num_layers = md_get("qwen3.block_count")?.to_u32()? as usize;
+        let hidden_size = md_get("qwen3.embedding_length")?.to_u32()? as usize;
+        let max_position_embeddings = md_get("qwen3.context_length")?.to_u32()? as usize;
+        let rms_norm_eps = md_get("qwen3.attention.layer_norm_rms_epsilon")?.to_f32()? as f64;
+        let rope_freq_base = md_get("qwen3.rope.freq_base")?.to_f32()? as f64;
+
+        let dtype = match gg.metadata().get("general.dtype") {
+            Some(v) => match v.to_u32() {
+                Ok(0) => DType::F32,
+                Ok(1) => DType::F16,
+                _ => DType::F16,
+            },
+            None => DType::F16,
+        };
+
+        let embed_tensor = gg.tensor("token_embd.weight")?;
+        let embed_tokens = Embedding::new(embed_tensor.dequantize(device)?, hidden_size);
+
+        let rotary = Arc::new(RotaryEmbedding::new(
+            dtype,
+            head_dim,
+            max_position_embeddings,
+            rope_freq_base,
+            device,
+        )?);
+
+        let mut layers = Vec::with_capacity(num_layers);
+        for i in 0..num_layers {
+            layers.push(LayerWeights::new(
+                &mut gg,
+                num_attention_heads,
+                num_kv_heads,
+                head_dim,
+                rms_norm_eps,
+                rotary.clone(),
+                i,
+            )?);
+        }
+
+        let norm = gg.rms_norm("output_norm.weight", rms_norm_eps)?;
+        // Load output projection tensor, falling back to tied embeddings like gemma3
+        let lm_head_tensor = match gg.tensor("output.weight") {
+            Ok(tensor) => tensor,
+            Err(_) => gg.tensor("token_embd.weight")?,
+        };
+        let lm_head = QMatMul::from_weights(lm_head_tensor.into())?;
+        let span = tracing::span!(tracing::Level::TRACE, "model");
+        let span_output = tracing::span!(tracing::Level::TRACE, "output");
+        Ok(Self {
+            embed_tokens,
+            layers,
+            norm,
+            lm_head,
+            device: device.clone(),
+            dtype,
+            span,
+            span_output,
+        })
+    }
+
+    fn causal_mask(
+        &self,
+        b: usize,
+        tgt: usize,
+        offset: usize,
+        sw: Option<usize>,
+    ) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let minf = f32::NEG_INFINITY;
+        let mask: Vec<_> = (0..tgt)
+            .flat_map(|i| {
+                (0..(tgt + offset)).map(move |j| {
+                    let past_ok = j <= i + offset;
+                    let sw_ok = match sw {
+                        Some(w) => (i + offset) as i64 - j as i64 <= w as i64,
+                        None => true,
+                    };
+                    if past_ok && sw_ok {
+                        0.
+                    } else {
+                        minf
+                    }
+                })
+            })
+            .collect();
+        Tensor::from_slice(&mask, (b, 1, tgt, tgt + offset), &self.device)?.to_dtype(self.dtype)
+    }
+
+    pub fn forward(&mut self, input: &Tensor, offset: usize) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let _enter = self.span.enter();
+        let (b, l) = input.dims2()?;
+        let mut h = self.embed_tokens.forward(input)?;
+        let causal_mask = if l == 1 {
+            None
+        } else {
+            Some(self.causal_mask(b, l, offset, None)?)
+        };
+        for layer in &mut self.layers {
+            h = layer.forward(&h, causal_mask.as_ref(), offset)?;
+        }
+        let h = self.norm.forward(&h)?;
+        let _enter = self.span_output.enter();
+        let last_hidden = h.narrow(1, l - 1, 1)?;
+        self.lm_head.forward(&last_hidden)?.squeeze(1)
+    }
+}
diff --git a/candle-transformers/src/models/qwen3.rs b/candle-transformers/src/models/qwen3.rs
index 30ea3c15..dd90b193 100644
--- a/candle-transformers/src/models/qwen3.rs
+++ b/candle-transformers/src/models/qwen3.rs
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ impl Qwen3RotaryEmbedding {
     }
 
     /// Apply RoPE (q, k shape: B x H x L x D)
-    fn apply(&self, q: &Tensor, k: &Tensor, offset: usize) -> Result<(Tensor, Tensor)> {
+    pub(crate) fn apply(&self, q: &Tensor, k: &Tensor, offset: usize) -> Result<(Tensor, Tensor)> {
         let (_, _, seq_len, _) = q.dims4()?;
         let cos = self.cos.narrow(0, offset, seq_len)?;
         let sin = self.sin.narrow(0, offset, seq_len)?;