Model Overview
- Model Architecture: moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 (
KimiK25ForConditionalGeneration)
- Input: Text, image, and video
- Output: Text
- Weight Quantization: FP8 (block-wise scaling)
- Activation Quantization: FP8 (dynamic grouped scaling)
- Release Date: 2026-04-29
- Model Developers: RedHatAI
This model is a quantized variant of moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6, exported in compressed-tensors format for vLLM deployment and evaluated on instruction-following, reasoning, function-calling, and agentic coding workloads.
Model Optimizations
This checkpoint applies FP8 block quantization to transformer linear layers and FP8 dynamic quantization to activations. The resulting representation is optimized for high-throughput serving while maintaining strong benchmark retention on Kimi-K2.6 evaluation suites.
The model is exported in compressed-tensors format and is intended for OpenAI-compatible inference with vLLM.
Creation
This model was quantized with LLM Compressor and exported as compressed-tensors. The script below is a representative reference script aligned with the published quantization configuration.
from compressed_tensors.entrypoints.convert import CompressedTensorsDequantizerfrom llmcompressor import model_free_ptq MODEL_ID = "moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6"SAVE_DIR = "Kimi-K2.6-FP8-BLOCK" ignore = [ "re:.*mlp.gate$", "re:.*lm_head", "re:.*kv_a_proj_with_mqa$", "re:.*q_a_proj$", "re:.*vision_tower.*", "re:.*embed_tokens$", "re:.*norm$", "re:.*mm_projector.*", "re:.*vision.*",] model_free_ptq( model_stub=MODEL_ID, save_directory=SAVE_DIR, scheme="FP8_BLOCK", ignore=ignore, converter=CompressedTensorsDequantizer( MODEL_ID, quant_config_key="text_config.quantization_config", ignore=ignore, ), max_workers=2, device="cuda:0",)
Deployment
Use with vLLM
vllm serve RedHatAI/Kimi-K2.6-FP8-BLOCK \ --trust-remote-code \ --mm-encoder-tp-mode data \ --tool-call-parser kimi_k2 \ --reasoning-parser kimi_k2 \ --enable-auto-tool-choice
from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI(base_url="http://127.0.0.1:8000/v1", api_key="EMPTY") resp = client.chat.completions.create( model="RedHatAI/Kimi-K2.6-FP8-BLOCK", messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain how transformers use attention."}],) print(resp.choices[0].message.content)
Evaluation
We evaluated this model with lm-evaluation-harness, lighteval, BFCL v4, and SWE-Bench Lite served through a vLLM (0.22.1) OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
Table with columns: Category, Benchmark, Score| Category | Benchmark | Score |
|---|
| Reasoning and instruction following | AIME25 (pass@1, avg@8) | 96.25% |
| Reasoning and instruction following | GPQA Diamond (pass@1, avg@3) | 89.39% |
| Reasoning and instruction following | MATH-500 (pass@1, avg@3) | 94.27% |
| Reasoning and instruction following | MMLU-Pro Chat (custom-extract, avg@3) | 86.55% |
| Reasoning and instruction following | GSM8K Platinum CoT (strict-match, avg@3) | 93.13% |
| Reasoning and instruction following |
BFCL rows report category accuracy. SWE-Bench follows the official harness score style. For run transparency: 8 of 23 tasks were resolved, and 19 instances produced non-empty graded patches.
Recovery vs. base model (moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6)
Table with columns: Benchmark, Base model (moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6), This model, Recovery| Benchmark | Base model (moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6) | This model | Recovery |
|---|
| AIME25 (pass@1, avg@8) | 90.00% | 96.25% | 106.94% |
| GPQA Diamond (pass@1, avg@3) | 84.51% | 89.39% | 105.77% |
| MATH-500 (pass@1, avg@3) | 93.53% | 94.27% | 100.79% |
| MMLU-Pro Chat (custom-extract, avg@3) | 86.70% |
Reproduction
Representative commands used to produce and aggregate these runs:
vLLM + lm-eval (example)
lm_eval --model local-chat-completions \ --tasks gsm8k_platinum_cot_llama \ --model_args "model=RedHatAI/Kimi-K2.6-FP8-BLOCK,max_length=40960,base_url=http://127.0.0.1:8000/v1/chat/completions,num_concurrent=32,max_retries=3,tokenized_requests=False,tokenizer_backend=None,timeout=3600" \ --num_fewshot 0 \ --apply_chat_template \ --output_path results_gsm8k_platinum.json \ --seed 1234 \ --gen_kwargs "do_sample=True,temperature=1.0,top_p=0.95,top_k=20,min_p=0.0,max_gen_toks=64000,presence_penalty=1.5,repetition_penalty=1.0,seed=1234"
lighteval config used
model_parameters: provider: "hosted_vllm" model_name: "hosted_vllm/RedHatAI/Kimi-K2.6-FP8-BLOCK" base_url: "http://127.0.0.1:8000/v1" api_key: "EMPTY" timeout: 3600 max_model_length: 40960 concurrent_requests: 8 generation_parameters: temperature: 1.0 max_new_tokens: 65536 top_p: 0.95 seed: 1234 top_k: 20 presence_penalty: 1.5
lighteval endpoint litellm litellm_config.yaml \ "aime25@1@8|0,math_500@1@3|0,gpqa:diamond@1@3|0" \ --output-dir results_lighteval \ --save-details
BFCL v4 and SWE-Bench Lite scripts
# BFCL categories: non_live, live, multi_turn, memory, web_search./scripts/bfcl/run_bfcl_local.sh kimi_fp8 non_live./scripts/bfcl/run_bfcl_local.sh kimi_fp8 live./scripts/bfcl/run_bfcl_local.sh kimi_fp8 multi_turn./scripts/bfcl/run_bfcl_local.sh kimi_fp8 memory./scripts/bfcl/run_bfcl_local.sh kimi_fp8 web_search
# SWE-Bench Lite dev (full split)SWEBENCH_SUBSET=lite SWEBENCH_SPLIT=dev SWEBENCH_SLICE= \ ./scripts/swebench/run_swebench_lite_local.sh kimi_fp8 # Official SWE-bench resolved-rate evaluation/home/shubhra/environments/mini-swe-agent/bin/python -m swebench.harness.run_evaluation \ --dataset_name princeton-nlp/SWE-Bench_Lite \ --split dev \ --predictions_path /home/shubhra/kimik2.6_evals/results/swebench_resolved_eval/kimi_fp8_lite_dev_preds_merged.json \ --max_workers 4 \ --run_id kimi_fp8_lite_dev_20260701_resolved
Most lm-eval/lighteval tasks were run with 3 seeds and then averaged; AIME25 was run with 8 seeds. BFCL v4 and SWE-Bench Lite numbers come from the aggregated run artifacts listed below.
Every Eval Ever Artifacts
every_eval_ever/aime25.json
every_eval_ever/gpqa_diamond.json
every_eval_ever/gsm8k_platinum_cot_llama.json
every_eval_ever/ifeval.json
every_eval_ever/math_500.json
every_eval_ever/mmlu_pro_chat.json
every_eval_ever/bfcl_v4.json
every_eval_ever/swebench_lite_dev.json