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SmolLM3-3B-Q4_K_M-GGUF

by Shayon Sarker ShayonSarker/SmolLM3-3B-Q4_K_M-GGUF

SmolLM3-3B-Q4_K_M-GGUF is an open-weight model for text generation from Shayon Sarker, released under Apache License 2.0. Its published files total 5.2 GB. It draws 77 downloads a month.

Downloads: Hugging Face — ShayonSarker/SmolLM3-3B-Q4KM-GGUF · Source & build recipes: GitHub — edge-smollm3-gguf · Base model: HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B-Base The GGUF binaries are hosted on Hugging Face; this repository holds the reproducible conversion…

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Weights5.2 GB
Licenseapache-2.0
AccessOpen weights
Monthly Downloads77

Model Card

By Shayon Sarker, published under apache-2.0, revision ce8811bc0303.

Downloads: Hugging Face — ShayonSarker/SmolLM3-3B-Q4KM-GGUF · Source & build recipes: GitHub — edge-smollm3-gguf · Base model: HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B-Base The GGUF binaries are hosted on Hugging Face; this repository holds the reproducible conversion pipeline, calibration data, and checksums. Base: HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B-Base (SmolLM3ForCausalLM, Apache-2.0) · Quant: llama.cpp 0.4.1-dev (c77ae69) · imatrix on 4000-line wikitext-2 (seed 42, 798 chunks, 4 threads) The F16 row in the eval table below is a measurement reference, not a downloadable file. Gate was <5% — passed. Task evals (ARC/HellaSwag) not run: perplexity only, stated honestly. Files: smol-Q4KM.gguf, smol-Q80.gguf…

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SmolLM3-3B-Base Q4_K_M GGUF — verified 4GB edge build

Downloads: Hugging Face — ShayonSarker/SmolLM3-3B-Q4_K_M-GGUF · Source & build recipes: GitHub — edge-smollm3-gguf · Base model: HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B-Base

The GGUF binaries are hosted on Hugging Face; this repository holds the reproducible conversion pipeline, calibration data, and checksums.

Base: HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B-Base (SmolLM3ForCausalLM, Apache-2.0) · Quant: llama.cpp 0.4.1-dev (c77ae69) · imatrix on 4000-line wikitext-2 (seed 42, 798 chunks, 4 threads)

Format status

File Status Note
smol-Q4_K_M.gguf Published Main release, ~1.8 GB
smol-Q8_0.gguf Published ~3.1 GB
F16 Reference only 5.8 GB source-side reference used for the PPL baseline; not published

The F16 row in the eval table below is a measurement reference, not a downloadable file.

Eval (wikitext, 128 held-out lines, 2048 ctx)

model PPL size
F16 6.3582 5.8 GB
Q8_0 6.3667 (+0.14%) 3.1 GB
Q4_K_M 6.5020 (+2.26%) 1.8 GB

Gate was <5% — passed. Task evals (ARC/HellaSwag) not run: perplexity only, stated honestly. Files: smol-Q4_K_M.gguf, smol-Q8_0.gguf, imatrix.dat, calib.txt, REPRO.json, SHA256.txt (see manifest). Full build log + repro scripts: edge-smollm3-gguf on GitHub.

Verified outputs

Verbatim smol-Q4_K_M.gguf completions, --temp 0 -no-cnv, 24 new tokens, prompt form Question: ...\nAnswer:. The model answers, then continues with further Question:/Answer: pairs of its own invention; those are trimmed.

Question Model answer
What is the capital of Japan? Tokyo is the capital of Japan.
What is the capital of Italy? Rome is the capital of Italy.
What is the capital of Egypt? Cairo is the capital of Egypt. It is the largest city in Egypt and the Arab world.
What is the largest ocean on Earth? The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean on Earth. It covers about 30 percent of the Earth's surface
Which planet is closest to the Sun? Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun. It is the smallest planet in the Solar System, with a diameter of
How many days are in a leap year? 366 days
How many continents are there? There are seven continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia.
What is the chemical symbol for gold? Au. The symbol for gold is Au, which comes from the Latin word for gold, aurum.

Eight of eight are correct. This is the lowest-perplexity model in this release set (6.36 F16 on wikitext vs 11.50 for Qwen3-4B), though wikitext perplexity is not a reasoning score and says nothing about multilingual or instruction behaviour.

Use

llama.cpp:

./llama-cli -m smol-Q4_K_M.gguf -p "Explain overfitting in 3 lines" -c 4096

Ollama (see Modelfile):

ollama create smollm3-3b-base-q4 -f Modelfile
ollama run smollm3-3b-base-q4 "Explain overfitting in 3 lines"

4GB GTX 1650: Q4_K_M peaks ~3.4GB, fully offline.

Limitations

  • Base (non-instruct) model: raw completion, no chat tuning. Prompt accordingly.
  • English wikitext calibration: quality on other languages/domains may vary.
  • Perplexity-only validation; verify on your task before production use.

Identity and Version

Repository
ShayonSarker/SmolLM3-3B-Q4_K_M-GGUF
Publisher
Shayon Sarker
Task
Text generation
Modality
Text
Library
Not stated by the source
Parameters
Not stated by the source
Languages
Not stated by the source
Revision
ce8811bc0303baf386451669a50e05f760c3dd7f
First published
2026-09-15
Last updated
2026-09-26

Files and Weights

10 files, 5.2 GB in total. The weights are 2 files totalling 5.2 GB in gguf.

Weights2 files · 5.2 GB
Configuration1 file · 623 B
Documentation1 file · 4.7 KB
Other5 files · 5.2 MB
Repository1 file · 1.7 KB
Every file
FileTypeSizeSHA-256
smol-Q4_K_M.ggufWeights1.9 GB 6e24e31788fb
smol-Q8_0.ggufWeights3.3 GB ac76daa3d272
REPRO.jsonConfiguration623 B —
README.mdDocumentation4.7 KB —
ModelfileOther102 B —
SHA256.txtOther402 B —
UPLOAD.txtOther127 B —
calib.txtOther1.8 MB —
imatrix.datOther3.4 MB f74a6355c3ca
.gitattributesRepository1.7 KB —

License and Download

License
apache-2.0
Access
Open weights, no gate
Download size
5.2 GB
Download from Shayon Sarker

Released by Shayon Sarker through its official repository on Hugging Face. Read the license.

Built From

  • Derived from HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B-Base
  • Quantized from HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B-Base

Memory Requirements

PrecisionWeights in memory
As published5.2 GB

Weights only, from the published parameter count; the key-value cache and runtime add to this.

Questions About SmolLM3-3B-Q4_K_M-GGUF

Can I use SmolLM3-3B-Q4_K_M-GGUF commercially?

Yes. SmolLM3-3B-Q4_K_M-GGUF is released under Apache License 2.0. The Apache License 2.0 is a permissive open-source license. It permits commercial use, modification and redistribution. It requires keeping the license and copyright notices and any NOTICE file, stating significant changes, and it includes an express patent grant from contributors.

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