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.