Granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct APEX Quantized (GGUF)
This repository contains APEX-quantized GGUF files for IBM's Granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct.
The quantization was performed using the mudler/apex-quant project, focusing on maximizing quality-to-size ratio using importance matrix (imatrix) guided quantization.
📥 Source & Credits
- Base Model: ibm-granite/granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct
- F16 GGUF & Imatrix: The F16 source model and the importance matrix file used for quantization were sourced from bartowski's GGUF repository.
Special thanks to @bartowski for providing the high-quality imatrix file!
⚠️ For technical validation only
- Severe accuracy loss due to quantization; outputs may contain hallucinations, gibberish, or fail basic tasks.
- Suitable only for researching quantization noise, debugging conversion scripts, or comparing compression artifacts.
- No post-training calibration, fine-tuning, or recovery techniques were applied.