diff --git a/docs/guides/checkpointing_solutions/convert_checkpoint.md b/docs/guides/checkpointing_solutions/convert_checkpoint.md
index 97a15616bf..f6ff28b44e 100644
--- a/docs/guides/checkpointing_solutions/convert_checkpoint.md
+++ b/docs/guides/checkpointing_solutions/convert_checkpoint.md
@@ -6,16 +6,16 @@ This guide provides instructions for using the [scripts](https://github.com/AI-H
 
 The following models are supported:
 
-| Model Family            | Sizes                  | HF $\\to$ Orbax (scan) | HF $\\to$ Orbax (unscan) | Orbax (scan) $\\to$ HF | Orbax (unscan) $\\to$ HF |
-| :---------------------- | :--------------------- | :--------------------: | :----------------------: | :--------------------: | :----------------------: |
-| **Gemma2**              | 2B, 9B, 27B            |           √            |            √             |           √            |            √             |
-| **Gemma3** (Multimodal) | 4B, 12B, 27B           |           -            |            √             |           -            |            √             |
-| **Llama3.1**            | 8B, 70B, 450B          |           √            |            √             |           √            |            √             |
-| **Qwen3**               | 0.6B, 4B, 8B, 14B, 32B |           √            |            √             |           √            |            √             |
-| **Qwen3 MoE**           | 30B, 235B, 480B        |           √            |            √             |           √            |            √             |
-| **Mixtral**             | 8x7B, 8x22B            |           √            |            √             |           √            |            √             |
-| **GPT-OSS**             | 20B, 120B              |           √            |            √             |           √            |            √             |
-| **DeepSeek3**           | 671B                   |           -            |            -             |           √            |            -             |
+| Model Family            | Sizes                        | HF $\\to$ Orbax (scan) | HF $\\to$ Orbax (unscan) | Orbax (scan) $\\to$ HF | Orbax (unscan) $\\to$ HF |
+| :---------------------- | :--------------------------- | :--------------------: | :----------------------: | :--------------------: | :----------------------: |
+| **Gemma2**              | 2B, 9B, 27B                  |           √            |            √             |           √            |            √             |
+| **Gemma3** (Multimodal) | 4B, 12B, 27B                 |           -            |            √             |           -            |            √             |
+| **Llama3.1**            | 8B, 70B, 450B                |           √            |            √             |           √            |            √             |
+| **Qwen3**               | 0.6B, 1.7B, 4B, 8B, 14B, 32B |           √            |            √             |           √            |            √             |
+| **Qwen3 MoE**           | 30B, 235B, 480B              |           √            |            √             |           √            |            √             |
+| **Mixtral**             | 8x7B, 8x22B                  |           √            |            √             |           √            |            √             |
+| **GPT-OSS**             | 20B, 120B                    |           √            |            √             |           √            |            √             |
+| **DeepSeek3**           | 671B                         |           -            |            -             |           √            |            -             |
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
diff --git a/src/MaxText/pyconfig_deprecated.py b/src/MaxText/pyconfig_deprecated.py
index 582d7a122f..7d8bbebcef 100644
--- a/src/MaxText/pyconfig_deprecated.py
+++ b/src/MaxText/pyconfig_deprecated.py
@@ -461,6 +461,7 @@ def validate_model_name(s: str) -> bool:
       "gemma3-12b",
       "gemma3-27b",
       "qwen3-0.6b",
+      "qwen3-1.7b",
       "qwen3-4b",
       "qwen3-4b-thinking-2507",
       "qwen3-8b",
diff --git a/src/maxtext/checkpoint_conversion/utils/hf_model_configs.py b/src/maxtext/checkpoint_conversion/utils/hf_model_configs.py
index d91b7987ca..1eab21606d 100644
--- a/src/maxtext/checkpoint_conversion/utils/hf_model_configs.py
+++ b/src/maxtext/checkpoint_conversion/utils/hf_model_configs.py
@@ -226,6 +226,22 @@
     torch_dtype="bfloat16",
 )
 
+qwen3_1_7b_config = transformers.Qwen3Config(
+    vocab_size=151936,
+    hidden_size=2048,
+    intermediate_size=6144,
+    num_hidden_layers=28,
+    num_attention_heads=16,
+    num_key_value_heads=8,
+    head_dim=128,
+    hidden_act="silu",
+    max_position_embeddings=40960,
+    rms_norm_eps=1.0e-6,
+    rope_theta=1000000.0,
+    tie_word_embeddings=True,
+    torch_dtype="bfloat16",
+)
+
 qwen3_4b_config = transformers.Qwen3Config(
     vocab_size=151936,
     hidden_size=2560,
@@ -773,6 +789,7 @@
     "gemma3-12b": gemma3_12b_config,
     "gemma3-27b": gemma3_27b_config,
     "qwen3-0.6b": qwen3_0_6b_config,
+    "qwen3-1.7b": qwen3_1_7b_config,
     "qwen3-4b": qwen3_4b_config,
     "qwen3-4b-thinking-2507": qwen3_4b_config,
     "qwen3-8b": qwen3_8b_config,
diff --git a/src/maxtext/checkpoint_conversion/utils/hf_shape.py b/src/maxtext/checkpoint_conversion/utils/hf_shape.py
index 081017dd96..3a5cc89676 100644
--- a/src/maxtext/checkpoint_conversion/utils/hf_shape.py
+++ b/src/maxtext/checkpoint_conversion/utils/hf_shape.py
@@ -661,6 +661,7 @@ def MIXTRAL_HF_WEIGHTS_TO_SHAPE(config):
     "gemma3-12b": GEMMA3_HF_WEIGHTS_TO_SHAPE,
     "gemma3-27b": GEMMA3_HF_WEIGHTS_TO_SHAPE,
     "qwen3-0.6b": QWEN3_HF_WEIGHTS_TO_SHAPE,
+    "qwen3-1.7b": QWEN3_HF_WEIGHTS_TO_SHAPE,
     "qwen3-4b": QWEN3_HF_WEIGHTS_TO_SHAPE,
     "qwen3-4b-thinking-2507": QWEN3_HF_WEIGHTS_TO_SHAPE,
     "qwen3-8b": QWEN3_HF_WEIGHTS_TO_SHAPE,
diff --git a/src/maxtext/checkpoint_conversion/utils/param_mapping.py b/src/maxtext/checkpoint_conversion/utils/param_mapping.py
index d4f7317969..b76bfb4403 100644
--- a/src/maxtext/checkpoint_conversion/utils/param_mapping.py
+++ b/src/maxtext/checkpoint_conversion/utils/param_mapping.py
@@ -2083,6 +2083,7 @@ def pad_hf_embedding_layer(input_tensor, target_shape):
     "gemma3-12b": GEMMA3_MAXTEXT_TO_HF_PARAM_MAPPING,
     "gemma3-27b": GEMMA3_MAXTEXT_TO_HF_PARAM_MAPPING,
     "qwen3-0.6b": QWEN3_MAXTEXT_TO_HF_PARAM_MAPPING,
+    "qwen3-1.7b": QWEN3_MAXTEXT_TO_HF_PARAM_MAPPING,
     "qwen3-4b": QWEN3_MAXTEXT_TO_HF_PARAM_MAPPING,
     "qwen3-4b-thinking-2507": QWEN3_MAXTEXT_TO_HF_PARAM_MAPPING,
     "qwen3-8b": QWEN3_MAXTEXT_TO_HF_PARAM_MAPPING,
@@ -2114,6 +2115,7 @@ def pad_hf_embedding_layer(input_tensor, target_shape):
     "gemma3-12b": GEMMA3_MAXTEXT_TO_HF_PARAM_HOOK_FN,
     "gemma3-27b": GEMMA3_MAXTEXT_TO_HF_PARAM_HOOK_FN,
     "qwen3-0.6b": QWEN3_MAXTEXT_TO_HF_PARAM_HOOK_FN,
+    "qwen3-1.7b": QWEN3_MAXTEXT_TO_HF_PARAM_HOOK_FN,
     "qwen3-4b": QWEN3_MAXTEXT_TO_HF_PARAM_HOOK_FN,
     "qwen3-4b-thinking-2507": QWEN3_MAXTEXT_TO_HF_PARAM_HOOK_FN,
     "qwen3-8b": QWEN3_MAXTEXT_TO_HF_PARAM_HOOK_FN,
diff --git a/src/maxtext/checkpoint_conversion/utils/utils.py b/src/maxtext/checkpoint_conversion/utils/utils.py
index 5a0ecfe940..374335a9e9 100644
--- a/src/maxtext/checkpoint_conversion/utils/utils.py
+++ b/src/maxtext/checkpoint_conversion/utils/utils.py
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@
     "gemma3-12b": "google/gemma-3-12b-it",
     "gemma3-27b": "google/gemma-3-27b-it",
     "qwen3-0.6b": "Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B",
+    "qwen3-1.7b": "Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B",
     "qwen3-4b": "Qwen/Qwen3-4B",
     "qwen3-4b-thinking-2507": "Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507",
     "qwen3-8b": "Qwen/Qwen3-8B",
diff --git a/src/maxtext/configs/models/qwen3-1.7b.yml b/src/maxtext/configs/models/qwen3-1.7b.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..79b7abe8e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/maxtext/configs/models/qwen3-1.7b.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+# Copyright 2023–2025 Google LLC
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# model config for qwen3-1.7b
+
+base_emb_dim: 2048
+base_num_query_heads: 16
+base_num_kv_heads: 8
+base_mlp_dim: 6144
+base_num_decoder_layers: 28
+head_dim: 128
+mlp_activations: ["silu", "linear"]  # "hidden_act": "silu" implies SwiGLU
+vocab_size: 151936
+
+decoder_block: "qwen3"
+
+normalization_layer_epsilon: 1.0e-6
+rope_max_timescale: 1000000
+
+use_qk_norm: True
+
+logits_via_embedding: True  # from "tie_word_embeddings": true
+normalize_embedding_logits: False
+enable_dropout: False  # deterministic for testing
+
+tokenizer_type: "huggingface"
diff --git a/src/maxtext/configs/types.py b/src/maxtext/configs/types.py
index cde89b0c7e..572b4ed932 100644
--- a/src/maxtext/configs/types.py
+++ b/src/maxtext/configs/types.py
@@ -229,6 +229,7 @@ class ProfilerType(str, Enum):
     "gemma3-12b",
     "gemma3-27b",
     "qwen3-0.6b",
+    "qwen3-1.7b",
     "qwen3-4b",
     "qwen3-4b-thinking-2507",
     "qwen3-8b",
diff --git a/tests/unit/configs_test.py b/tests/unit/configs_test.py
index 09ceb03f44..fb410be224 100644
--- a/tests/unit/configs_test.py
+++ b/tests/unit/configs_test.py
@@ -230,6 +230,7 @@ def test_mistral_configs(config_file):
 
 QWEN_CONFIGS = [
     os.path.join(CONFIGS_DIR, "models", "qwen3-0.6b.yml"),
+    os.path.join(CONFIGS_DIR, "models", "qwen3-1.7b.yml"),
     os.path.join(CONFIGS_DIR, "models", "qwen3-4b.yml"),
     os.path.join(CONFIGS_DIR, "models", "qwen3-4b-thinking-2507.yml"),
     os.path.join(CONFIGS_DIR, "models", "qwen3-8b.yml"),
diff --git a/tests/unit/muon_test.py b/tests/unit/muon_test.py
index 9fd847d04e..ab1f2344fd 100644
--- a/tests/unit/muon_test.py
+++ b/tests/unit/muon_test.py
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@
 
 
 # qwen3, specific: logits_via_embedding=True
-# applicable: qwen3-0.6b, qwen3-4b, but not: qwen3-8b, qwen3-14b (logits_via_embedding=False)
+# applicable: qwen3-0.6b, qwen3-1.7b, qwen3-4b, but not: qwen3-8b, qwen3-14b (logits_via_embedding=False)
 QWEN3_DIMENSION_NUMBER = {
     "params": {
         "decoder": {
diff --git a/tests/utils/sharding_dump.py b/tests/utils/sharding_dump.py
index ec7b98b752..cf051a6fd8 100644
--- a/tests/utils/sharding_dump.py
+++ b/tests/utils/sharding_dump.py
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@
     # "gemma3-12b",
     # "gemma3-27b",
     "qwen3-0.6b",
+    # "qwen3-1.7b",
     # "qwen3-4b",
     # "qwen3-4b-thinking-2507",
     # "qwen3-8b",