diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/models/qwen3_vl.py b/python/sglang/srt/models/qwen3_vl.py
index 301bf7360..09c443b89 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/models/qwen3_vl.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/models/qwen3_vl.py
@@ -1357,6 +1357,7 @@ class Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration(nn.Module):
                 if "visual" in name:
                     # adapt to VisionAttention
                     name = name.replace(r"attn.qkv.", r"attn.qkv_proj.")
+                    name = name.replace(r"model.visual.", r"visual.")
 
                 try:
                     # Skip loading extra bias for GPTQ models.