Table with columns: Metric, Base (abliterated), VEGA-27B
Metric
Base (abliterated)
VEGA-27B
Tool-calling accuracy
7 / 8
8 / 8
Avg latency / response
10.5 s
6.2 s (−41%)
Avg tokens / response (verbosity)
267
158 (−41%)
Multi-turn drivability
2 / 2
1 / 2 (mock-tool keyword artifact — not a real regression; needs a live tool to score)
Takeaway: the The Void (v3) training made an already-strong base more accurate at tool selection, ~40% faster, and ~40% more concise.
Quantization details (why this one serves, unlike a naive convert)
Tool:nvidia-modelopt (NVFP4_DEFAULT_CFG) — the fast SM120 path. llm-compressor/compressed-tensors NVFP4 null-outputs on SM120 + vLLM for this hybrid family, so modelopt is required.
Arch kept:Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration + language_model_only: true. vLLM has no text-only class for the Qwen3.5 hybrid family, so the full class + this flag is how a text model loads.
Kept in bf16 (quant ignore list): linear_attn.conv1d (the Gated-DeltaNet conv), lm_head, vision tower, MTP head.
MTP head (15 tensors) grafted back in bf16 → working speculative-decoding draft path.
Vision tower stripped → text-only, smaller + faster than the VLM variant.
No --quantization flag — vLLM auto-detects the modelopt NVFP4 checkpoint. Tool calls use Qwen3's XML format (<function=name><parameter=x>…), parsed by qwen3_xml.