diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/qwen/main.rs b/candle-examples/examples/qwen/main.rs
index 53f2f70dd1..d0e179e0ca 100644
--- a/candle-examples/examples/qwen/main.rs
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/qwen/main.rs
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ use clap::Parser;
 
 use candle_transformers::models::qwen2::{Config as ConfigBase, ModelForCausalLM as ModelBase};
 use candle_transformers::models::qwen2_moe::{Config as ConfigMoe, Model as ModelMoe};
+use candle_transformers::models::qwen3::{Config as Config3, ModelForCausalLM as Model3};
 
 use candle::{DType, Device, Tensor};
 use candle_examples::token_output_stream::TokenOutputStream;
@@ -20,6 +21,7 @@ use tokenizers::Tokenizer;
 enum Model {
     Base(ModelBase),
     Moe(ModelMoe),
+    Base3(Model3),
 }
 
 impl Model {
@@ -27,6 +29,7 @@ impl Model {
         match self {
             Self::Moe(ref mut m) => m.forward(xs, s),
             Self::Base(ref mut m) => m.forward(xs, s),
+            Self::Base3(ref mut m) => m.forward(xs, s),
         }
     }
 }
@@ -85,6 +88,10 @@ impl TextGeneration {
             Some(token) => token,
             None => anyhow::bail!("cannot find the <|endoftext|> token"),
         };
+        let eos_token2 = match self.tokenizer.get_token("<|im_end|>") {
+            Some(token) => token,
+            None => anyhow::bail!("cannot find the <|im_end|> token"),
+        };
         let start_gen = std::time::Instant::now();
         for index in 0..sample_len {
             let context_size = if index > 0 { 1 } else { tokens.len() };
@@ -107,7 +114,7 @@ impl TextGeneration {
             let next_token = self.logits_processor.sample(&logits)?;
             tokens.push(next_token);
             generated_tokens += 1;
-            if next_token == eos_token {
+            if next_token == eos_token || next_token == eos_token2 {
                 break;
             }
             if let Some(t) = self.tokenizer.next_token(next_token)? {
@@ -152,6 +159,14 @@ enum WhichModel {
     W2_7b,
     #[value(name = "2-72b")]
     W2_72b,
+    #[value(name = "3-0.6b")]
+    W3_0_6b,
+    #[value(name = "3-1.7b")]
+    W3_1_7b,
+    #[value(name = "3-4b")]
+    W3_4b,
+    #[value(name = "3-8b")]
+    W3_8b,
 }
 
 #[derive(Parser, Debug)]
@@ -254,6 +269,10 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
                 WhichModel::W14b => ("1.5", "14B"),
                 WhichModel::W72b => ("1.5", "72B"),
                 WhichModel::MoeA27b => ("1.5", "MoE-A2.7B"),
+                WhichModel::W3_0_6b => ("3", "0.6B"),
+                WhichModel::W3_1_7b => ("3", "1.7B"),
+                WhichModel::W3_4b => ("3", "4B"),
+                WhichModel::W3_8b => ("3", "8B"),
             };
             format!("Qwen/Qwen{version}-{size}")
         }
@@ -273,7 +292,11 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
             .map(std::path::PathBuf::from)
             .collect::<Vec<_>>(),
         None => match args.model {
-            WhichModel::W0_5b | WhichModel::W2_0_5b | WhichModel::W2_1_5b | WhichModel::W1_8b => {
+            WhichModel::W0_5b
+            | WhichModel::W2_0_5b
+            | WhichModel::W2_1_5b
+            | WhichModel::W1_8b
+            | WhichModel::W3_0_6b => {
                 vec![repo.get("model.safetensors")?]
             }
             WhichModel::W4b
@@ -282,7 +305,10 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
             | WhichModel::W14b
             | WhichModel::W72b
             | WhichModel::W2_72b
-            | WhichModel::MoeA27b => {
+            | WhichModel::MoeA27b
+            | WhichModel::W3_1_7b
+            | WhichModel::W3_4b
+            | WhichModel::W3_8b => {
                 candle_examples::hub_load_safetensors(&repo, "model.safetensors.index.json")?
             }
         },
@@ -304,6 +330,10 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
             let config: ConfigMoe = serde_json::from_slice(&std::fs::read(config_file)?)?;
             Model::Moe(ModelMoe::new(&config, vb)?)
         }
+        WhichModel::W3_0_6b | WhichModel::W3_1_7b | WhichModel::W3_4b | WhichModel::W3_8b => {
+            let config: Config3 = serde_json::from_slice(&std::fs::read(config_file)?)?;
+            Model::Base3(Model3::new(&config, vb)?)
+        }
         _ => {
             let config: ConfigBase = serde_json::from_slice(&std::fs::read(config_file)?)?;
             Model::Base(ModelBase::new(&config, vb)?)
diff --git a/candle-transformers/src/models/mod.rs b/candle-transformers/src/models/mod.rs
index bdb8d267b5..9e198f63a7 100644
--- a/candle-transformers/src/models/mod.rs
+++ b/candle-transformers/src/models/mod.rs
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ pub mod quantized_stable_lm;
 pub mod quantized_t5;
 pub mod qwen2;
 pub mod qwen2_moe;
+pub mod qwen3;
 pub mod recurrent_gemma;
 pub mod repvgg;
 pub mod resnet;
diff --git a/candle-transformers/src/models/qwen3.rs b/candle-transformers/src/models/qwen3.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..30ea3c1561
--- /dev/null
+++ b/candle-transformers/src/models/qwen3.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,387 @@
+use crate::{
+    models::with_tracing::{linear_b, linear_no_bias, Linear, RmsNorm},
+    utils::repeat_kv,
+};
+use candle::{DType, Device, Module, Result, Tensor};
+use candle_nn::{kv_cache::KvCache, Activation, VarBuilder};
+use std::sync::Arc;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, serde::Deserialize)]
+pub struct Config {
+    pub vocab_size: usize,
+    pub hidden_size: usize,
+    pub intermediate_size: usize,
+    pub num_hidden_layers: usize,
+    pub num_attention_heads: usize,
+    pub head_dim: usize,
+    pub attention_bias: bool,
+    pub num_key_value_heads: usize,
+    pub max_position_embeddings: usize,
+    pub sliding_window: Option<usize>,
+    pub max_window_layers: usize,
+    pub tie_word_embeddings: bool,
+    pub rope_theta: f64,
+    pub rms_norm_eps: f64,
+    pub use_sliding_window: bool,
+    pub hidden_act: Activation,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub(crate) struct Qwen3RotaryEmbedding {
+    sin: Tensor,
+    cos: Tensor,
+}
+
+impl Qwen3RotaryEmbedding {
+    pub(crate) fn new(dtype: DType, cfg: &Config, dev: &Device) -> Result<Self> {
+        let dim = cfg.head_dim;
+        let max_seq_len = cfg.max_position_embeddings;
+        let inv_freq: Vec<_> = (0..dim)
+            .step_by(2)
+            .map(|i| 1f32 / cfg.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)?;
+        let sin = self.sin.narrow(0, offset, seq_len)?;
+        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)]
+pub(crate) struct Qwen3MLP {
+    gate_proj: Linear,
+    up_proj: Linear,
+    down_proj: Linear,
+    act_fn: Activation,
+}
+
+impl Qwen3MLP {
+    pub(crate) fn new(cfg: &Config, vb: VarBuilder) -> Result<Self> {
+        Ok(Self {
+            gate_proj: linear_no_bias(cfg.hidden_size, cfg.intermediate_size, vb.pp("gate_proj"))?,
+            up_proj: linear_no_bias(cfg.hidden_size, cfg.intermediate_size, vb.pp("up_proj"))?,
+            down_proj: linear_no_bias(cfg.intermediate_size, cfg.hidden_size, vb.pp("down_proj"))?,
+            act_fn: cfg.hidden_act,
+        })
+    }
+}
+
+impl Module for Qwen3MLP {
+    fn forward(&self, x: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let lhs = x.apply(&self.gate_proj)?.apply(&self.act_fn)?;
+        let rhs = x.apply(&self.up_proj)?;
+        (lhs * rhs)?.apply(&self.down_proj)
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub(crate) struct Qwen3Attention {
+    // projections
+    q_proj: Linear,
+    k_proj: Linear,
+    v_proj: Linear,
+    o_proj: Linear,
+    // norms
+    q_norm: RmsNorm,
+    k_norm: RmsNorm,
+    // hyper params
+    num_heads: usize,
+    num_kv_heads: usize,
+    num_kv_groups: usize,
+    head_dim: usize,
+    hidden_size: usize,
+    // utils
+    rotary_emb: Arc<Qwen3RotaryEmbedding>,
+    kv_cache: KvCache,
+}
+
+impl Qwen3Attention {
+    pub(crate) fn new(
+        cfg: &Config,
+        rotary_emb: Arc<Qwen3RotaryEmbedding>,
+        vb: VarBuilder,
+    ) -> Result<Self> {
+        if cfg.use_sliding_window {
+            candle::bail!("sliding window is not suppored")
+        }
+
+        let head_dim = cfg.head_dim;
+        let num_heads = cfg.num_attention_heads;
+        let num_kv_heads = cfg.num_key_value_heads;
+        let num_kv_groups = num_heads / num_kv_heads;
+
+        let q_proj = linear_b(
+            cfg.hidden_size,
+            num_heads * head_dim,
+            cfg.attention_bias,
+            vb.pp("q_proj"),
+        )?;
+        let k_proj = linear_b(
+            cfg.hidden_size,
+            num_kv_heads * head_dim,
+            cfg.attention_bias,
+            vb.pp("k_proj"),
+        )?;
+        let v_proj = linear_b(
+            cfg.hidden_size,
+            num_kv_heads * head_dim,
+            cfg.attention_bias,
+            vb.pp("v_proj"),
+        )?;
+        let o_proj = linear_b(
+            num_heads * head_dim,
+            cfg.hidden_size,
+            cfg.attention_bias,
+            vb.pp("o_proj"),
+        )?;
+
+        let q_norm = RmsNorm::new(head_dim, cfg.rms_norm_eps, vb.pp("q_norm"))?;
+        let k_norm = RmsNorm::new(head_dim, cfg.rms_norm_eps, vb.pp("k_norm"))?;
+
+        // Necessary because the hidden_size in the config isn't always accurate
+        let hidden_size = head_dim * cfg.num_attention_heads;
+
+        let kv_cache = KvCache::new(2, cfg.max_position_embeddings);
+
+        Ok(Self {
+            q_proj,
+            k_proj,
+            v_proj,
+            o_proj,
+            q_norm,
+            k_norm,
+            num_heads,
+            num_kv_heads,
+            num_kv_groups,
+            head_dim,
+            hidden_size,
+            rotary_emb,
+            kv_cache,
+        })
+    }
+
+    pub(crate) fn forward(
+        &mut self,
+        x: &Tensor,
+        attn_mask: Option<&Tensor>,
+        offset: usize,
+    ) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let (b, l, _) = x.dims3()?;
+
+        // 1. Proj
+        let q = self.q_proj.forward(x)?;
+        let k = self.k_proj.forward(x)?;
+        let v = self.v_proj.forward(x)?;
+
+        // 2. Reshape: (B, L, H, D) -> (B, H, L, D)
+        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)?;
+
+        // 3. Per‑head RMSNorm
+        let q_flat = q.flatten(0, 2)?; // (B*H, L, D) -> (BHL, D) after transpose later
+        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))?;
+
+        // 4. RoPE
+        let (q, k) = self.rotary_emb.apply(&q, &k, offset)?;
+
+        // 5. Accumulate KV cache
+        let (k, v) = self.kv_cache.append(&k.contiguous()?, &v.contiguous()?)?;
+
+        // 6. GQA repeat_kv
+        let k = repeat_kv(k, self.num_kv_groups)?;
+        let v = repeat_kv(v, self.num_kv_groups)?;
+
+        // 7. Attention score
+        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 {
+            scores = scores.broadcast_add(m)?;
+        }
+        let probs = candle_nn::ops::softmax_last_dim(&scores)?;
+        let ctx = probs.matmul(&v)?; // (B, H, L, D)
+
+        // 8. Output proj
+        ctx.transpose(1, 2)?
+            .reshape((b, l, self.hidden_size))?
+            .apply(&self.o_proj)
+    }
+
+    pub(crate) fn clear_kv_cache(&mut self) {
+        self.kv_cache.reset();
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+struct DecoderLayer {
+    self_attn: Qwen3Attention,
+    mlp: Qwen3MLP,
+    ln1: RmsNorm,
+    ln2: RmsNorm,
+}
+
+impl DecoderLayer {
+    fn new(cfg: &Config, rotary: Arc<Qwen3RotaryEmbedding>, vb: VarBuilder) -> Result<Self> {
+        let self_attn = Qwen3Attention::new(cfg, rotary, vb.pp("self_attn"))?;
+        let mlp = Qwen3MLP::new(cfg, vb.pp("mlp"))?;
+        let ln1 = RmsNorm::new(cfg.hidden_size, cfg.rms_norm_eps, vb.pp("input_layernorm"))?;
+        let ln2 = RmsNorm::new(
+            cfg.hidden_size,
+            cfg.rms_norm_eps,
+            vb.pp("post_attention_layernorm"),
+        )?;
+        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
+    }
+
+    fn clear_kv_cache(&mut self) {
+        self.self_attn.clear_kv_cache();
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub struct Model {
+    embed_tokens: candle_nn::Embedding,
+    layers: Vec<DecoderLayer>,
+    norm: RmsNorm,
+    device: Device,
+    dtype: DType,
+}
+
+impl Model {
+    pub fn new(cfg: &Config, vb: VarBuilder) -> Result<Self> {
+        let embed_tokens =
+            candle_nn::embedding(cfg.vocab_size, cfg.hidden_size, vb.pp("model.embed_tokens"))?;
+        let rotary = Arc::new(Qwen3RotaryEmbedding::new(vb.dtype(), cfg, vb.device())?);
+        let mut layers = Vec::with_capacity(cfg.num_hidden_layers);
+        let vb_l = vb.pp("model.layers");
+        for i in 0..cfg.num_hidden_layers {
+            layers.push(DecoderLayer::new(cfg, rotary.clone(), vb_l.pp(i))?);
+        }
+        Ok(Self {
+            embed_tokens,
+            layers,
+            norm: RmsNorm::new(cfg.hidden_size, cfg.rms_norm_eps, vb.pp("model.norm"))?,
+            device: vb.device().clone(),
+            dtype: vb.dtype(),
+        })
+    }
+
+    fn clear_kv_cache(&mut self) {
+        for l in &mut self.layers {
+            l.clear_kv_cache();
+        }
+    }
+
+    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 (b, l) = input.dims2()?;
+        let mut h = self.embed_tokens.forward(input)?;
+
+        let causal = if l == 1 {
+            None
+        } else {
+            Some(self.causal_mask(b, l, offset, None)?)
+        };
+
+        for layer in &mut self.layers {
+            h = layer.forward(&h, causal.as_ref(), offset)?;
+        }
+        self.norm.forward(&h)
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub struct ModelForCausalLM {
+    base: Model,
+    lm_head: Linear,
+}
+
+impl ModelForCausalLM {
+    pub fn new(cfg: &Config, vb: VarBuilder) -> Result<Self> {
+        let base = Model::new(cfg, vb.clone())?;
+        let lm_head = if cfg.tie_word_embeddings {
+            Linear::from_weights(base.embed_tokens.embeddings().clone(), None)
+        } else {
+            linear_no_bias(cfg.hidden_size, cfg.vocab_size, vb.pp("lm_head"))?
+        };
+        Ok(Self { base, lm_head })
+    }
+
+    pub fn forward(&mut self, input: &Tensor, offset: usize) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let (_, l) = input.dims2()?;
+        self.base
+            .forward(input, offset)?
+            .narrow(1, l - 1, 1)?
+            .apply(&self.lm_head)
+    }
+
+    pub fn clear_kv_cache(&mut self) {
+        self.base.clear_kv_cache();
+    }
+}