This repository was produced and verified on Strata, the third-party engine that runs GSQ-RCO GGUFs on consumer hardware — the official model runs on a single 12 GB card with 64 GB of system RAM, and this one is only 0.25 GB larger. No patched build is needed: Strata sees an ordinary GSQ-RCO pack.
Download one tier (shard 1 + shard 2 + the MTP head)
hf download SC117/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GSQ-RCO-abliterated-GGUF --include "IQ3_S/*" --local-dir ./model
hf download SC117/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GSQ-RCO-abliterated-GGUF mtp-q2_0.gguf --local-dir ./model
hf download SC117/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GSQ-RCO-abliterated-GGUF --include "strata/rt/*" --local-dir ./model
Build a separate native pack for this model. When migrating from the official GSQ-RCO model, changing only the GGUF paths is not enough: --pack must point to a pack built from this repository's GGUF files for the selected tier. The transplant changes tensor offsets, so the official model's native_experts.txt cannot be reused. An old pack can cause ArenaExpertSource: the pack's native_experts.txt does not match the model.
PowerShell example, run from your Strata installation directory: replace the input and output paths with your own. Keep both downloaded shards together with their original filenames; the packer automatically finds shard 2. Use a new output directory and keep the official pack for switching back.
.\.venv\Scripts\python.exe .\tools\iq_pack.py --gguf "C:\models\SC117\IQ3_S\Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GSQ-RCO-abliterated-IQ3_S-00001-of-00002.gguf" --out "C:\strata\Strata-data\packs\sc117_iq3_s"
Point Strata at the SC117 model and its own native pack
--pack C:/strata/Strata-data/packs/sc117_iq3_s
--native ./model/IQ3_S/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GSQ-RCO-abliterated-IQ3_S-00001-of-00002.gguf
--ple-gguf ./model/IQ3_S/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GSQ-RCO-abliterated-IQ3_S-00002-of-00002.gguf
--mtp ./model/strata/rt
Set tokenizer to the new pack's tokenizer directory. If vision is enabled, point vision.model at SC117's first shard; the existing upstream mmproj-Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-BF16.gguf projector can be reused. Keep your existing tuning parameters (--expert-profile, --spec 4, --max-context 262144, --kv int8, --vram-reserve-mib, …) as a starting point. The main-model native pack is separate from the MTP runtime directory supplied to --mtp.
This migration issue and successful loading after rebuilding the pack were reported by ghit72 on Strata v0.1.38. This is a community startup report, not a new evaluation of model responses.
Measured on Strata (dual GPU, 448-token decode): 104.4 tok/s against the official file's 104.5 — the ablation costs nothing in speed, because every tier keeps the exact upstream type assignment. Shard 1 goes from 51.05 to 51.28 GiB.
mtp-q2_0.gguf and strata/rt/ are Strata-only. Their architecture tag is qwen4exp-mtp, which llama.cpp does not recognise — that is why they sit in a separate folder. Using llama.cpp? Ignore them and take mtp-Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-Q8_0.gguf from the repository root instead.
The MTP draft head is not abliterated. No abliterated MTP head has been published anywhere, so the draft layer was extracted from the stock base checkpoint. The ablation only rewrites the 48 main layers — see strata/README.md.