Llamacpp imatrix Quantizations of BigBang-v1 by endless-frontier
Using llama.cpp release b10262 for quantization.
Original model: https://huggingface.co/endless-frontier/BigBang-v1
Model details:
- Parameter count: 36B
- Input support: text, image (with mmproj file) - details
- MTP: yes - details
- imatrix: yes - details
How to run
Prompt format
<|im_start|>system
{system_prompt}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
{prompt}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
<think>
Don't know which to choose? Grab Q4_K_M (21.86GB) - usually a good mix of size and performance. Download instructions available here
Available files:
| Filename |
Quant type |
File Size |
Split |
Description |
| endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-bf16.gguf |
bf16 |
71.07GB |
true |
Full BF16 weights. |
| endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-Q8_0.gguf |
Q8_0 |
37.81GB |
false |
Extremely high quality, generally unneeded but max available quant. |
| endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-Q6_K_L.gguf |
Q6_K_L |
30.77GB |
false |
Uses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Very high quality, near perfect, recommended. |
| endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-Q6_K.gguf |
Q6_K |
30.53GB |
false |
Very high quality, near perfect, recommended. |
| endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-Q5_K_L.gguf |
Q5_K_L |
25.81GB |
false |
Uses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. High quality, recommended. |
| endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-Q5_K_M.gguf |
Q5_K_M |
25.49GB |
false |
High quality, recommended. |
| endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-Q5_K_S.gguf |
Q5_K_S |
24.63GB |
false |
High quality, recommended. |
| endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-Q4_1.gguf |
Q4_1 |
22.45GB |
false |
Legacy format, similar performance to Q4_K_S but with improved tokens/watt on Apple silicon. |
| endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-Q4_K_L.gguf |
Q4_K_L |
22.24GB |
false |
Uses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Good quality, recommended. |
| endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-Q4_K_M.gguf |
Q4_K_M |
21.86GB |
false |
Good quality, default size for most use cases, recommended. |
| endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-Q4_K_S.gguf |
Q4_K_S |
21.07GB |
false |
Slightly lower quality with more space savings, recommended. |
| endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-Q4_0.gguf |
Q4_0 |
20.42GB |
false |
Legacy format, kept for compatibility with older tools. |
| endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-IQ4_NL.gguf |
IQ4_NL |
20.33GB |
false |
Similar to IQ4_XS, but slightly larger. |
| endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-IQ4_XS.gguf |
IQ4_XS |
19.28GB |
false |
Decent quality, smaller than Q4_K_S with similar performance, recommended. |
| endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-Q3_K_XL.gguf |
Q3_K_XL |
17.80GB |
false |
Uses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Lower quality but usable, good for low RAM availability. |
| endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-IQ3_M.gguf |
IQ3_M |
17.37GB |
false |
Medium-low quality, new method with decent performance comparable to Q3_K_M. |
| endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-Q3_K_L.gguf |
Q3_K_L |
17.36GB |
false |
Lower quality but usable, good for low RAM availability. |
| endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-Q3_K_M.gguf |
Q3_K_M |
16.70GB |
false |
Low quality. |
| endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-IQ3_XS.gguf |
IQ3_XS |
16.69GB |
false |
Lower quality, new method with decent performance, slightly better than Q3_K_S. |
| endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-Q3_K_S.gguf |
Q3_K_S |
15.98GB |
false |
Low quality, not recommended. |
| endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-IQ3_XXS.gguf |
IQ3_XXS |
15.34GB |
false |
Lower quality, new method with decent performance, comparable to Q3 quants. |
| endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-Q2_K_L.gguf |
Q2_K_L |
13.58GB |
false |
Uses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Very low quality but surprisingly usable. |
| endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-Q2_K.gguf |
Q2_K |
13.09GB |
false |
Very low quality but surprisingly usable. |
| endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-IQ2_M.gguf |
IQ2_M |
12.54GB |
false |
Relatively low quality, uses SOTA techniques to be surprisingly usable. |
| endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-IQ2_S.gguf |
IQ2_S |
11.49GB |
false |
Low quality, uses SOTA techniques to be usable. |
| endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-IQ2_XS.gguf |
IQ2_XS |
11.27GB |
false |
Low quality, uses SOTA techniques to be usable. |
| endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-IQ2_XXS.gguf |
IQ2_XXS |
10.26GB |
false |
Very low quality, uses SOTA techniques to be usable. |
Download a specific file:
hf download bartowski/endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-GGUF --include "endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-Q4_K_M.gguf" --local-dir ./
Downloading using the Hugging Face CLI
Click to view download instructions
First, make sure you have the Hugging Face CLI installed:
pip install -U "huggingface_hub[cli]"
Download a specific file:
hf download bartowski/endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-GGUF --include "endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-Q4_K_M.gguf" --local-dir ./
The files marked `true` in the Split column above are stored as multiple parts in a folder. To download all the parts to a local folder, run:
hf download bartowski/endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-GGUF --include "endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-bf16/*" --local-dir ./
You can either specify a new local-dir (endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-bf16) or download them all in place (./)
How to run
These quants run with llama.cpp - installable in one line via llama.app:
curl -LsSf https://llama.app/install.sh | sh
llama-server -hf bartowski/endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-GGUF:Q4_K_M
llama-server includes a built-in chat web UI, served at http://localhost:8080 by default.
These quants were made with llama.cpp release b10262 - if this model's architecture is newly supported, you'll need that release or newer to run them.
They also work in: LM Studio · koboldcpp · ramalama · Jan AI · Text Generation Web UI · LoLLMs · Atomic Chat
Multimodal
This model supports image input. Alongside the quants, this repo includes the multimodal projector files mmproj-endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-f16.gguf and mmproj-endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-bf16.gguf, which pair with any quant above.
llama.cpp downloads the mmproj automatically when using -hf as shown above; if you're loading files manually, pass it with --mmproj.
MTP
This model has MTP (Multi-Token Prediction) layers, and they are included in these quants
MTP layers act as a built-in draft model, letting llama.cpp run speculative decoding for faster generation. To use them, add the following flag to your llama.cpp command:
--spec-type draft-mtp
Note: the MTP layers are stored at Q4_0 in the imatrix quants (except for the Q8_0 quant), since imatrix calibration does not exercise them. Q4_0 is chosen for its speed which massively benefits MTP performance.
imatrix
All quants made using imatrix option with dataset from here. The imatrix is available here: endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-imatrix.gguf.
Embed/output weights
Some of these quants (Q3_K_XL, Q4_K_L etc) are the standard quantization method with the embeddings and output weights quantized to Q8_0 instead of what they would normally default to.
ARM/AVX information
llama.cpp automatically "repacks" weights into an interleaved layout at load time for faster inference on ARM and AVX machines - details in this PR. This once required downloading special Q4_0_4_4/4_8/8_8 files; those are long gone. Online repacking now covers Q4_0, IQ4_NL, and most K-quants, so no special quant choice is needed for CPU inference.
Which file should I choose?
Click here for details
An older (early 2024) but still useful write-up with charts comparing quant performances is provided by Artefact2 [here](https://gist.github.com/Artefact2/b5f810600771265fc1e39442288e8ec9)
The first thing to figure out is how big a model you can run. To do this, you'll need to figure out how much RAM and/or VRAM you have.
If you want your model running as FAST as possible, you'll want to fit the whole thing on your GPU's VRAM. Aim for a quant with a file size 1-2GB smaller than your GPU's total VRAM.
If you want the absolute maximum quality, add both your system RAM and your GPU's VRAM together, then similarly grab a quant with a file size 1-2GB Smaller than that total.
Hugging Face can also do this math for you: add your hardware in your [Local Apps settings](https://huggingface.co/settings/local-apps) and the model page will show which files fit.
Next, you'll need to decide if you want to use an 'I-quant' or a 'K-quant'.
If you don't want to think too much, grab one of the K-quants. These are in format 'QX_K_X', like Q5_K_M.
If you want to get more into the weeds, you can check out this extremely useful feature chart:
[llama.cpp feature matrix](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/wiki/Feature-matrix)
But basically, if you're aiming for below Q4, and you're running cuBLAS (Nvidia) or rocBLAS (AMD), you should look towards the I-quants. These are in format IQX_X, like IQ3_M. These are newer and offer better performance for their size.
These I-quants can also be used on CPU, but will be slower than their K-quant equivalent, so speed vs performance is a tradeoff you'll have to decide.
Credits
Thank you kalomaze and Dampf for assistance in creating the imatrix calibration dataset.
Thank you ZeroWw for the inspiration to experiment with embed/output.
Want to support my work? Visit my ko-fi page here: https://ko-fi.com/bartowski