Evaluation
lm-evaluation-harness, vLLM 0.26 backend, greedy decoding, median of 3 draws
with the range (the harness is non-deterministic run-to-run even at greedy — a
single draw is not a reproducible score). All arms measured in one session against
the released checkpoint. HumanEval-instruct pass@1/create_test (n = 164);
MBPP base 3-shot (n = 500).
Table with columns: build, HumanEval-inst, MBPP (3-shot), size, Δ HE / MBPP| build | HumanEval-inst | MBPP (3-shot) | size | Δ HE / MBPP |
|---|
| bf16 base | 86.59 % (85.98–86.59) | 50.60 % (50.40–51.00) | 4.68 GiB | — |
| FP8-dynamic (this) | 84.76 % (84.15–85.37) | 48.80 % (48.80–49.00) | 2.84 GiB | −1.8 / −1.8 pp |
| NVFP4-W4A16 GPTQ | 84.15 % (81.71–84.15) | 45.80 % (45.60–46.40) | 2.03 GiB | −2.4 / −4.8 pp |
| NVFP4-W4A16 RTN | 79.88 % (77.44–79.88) | 41.20 % (41.20–41.80) | 2.03 GiB | −6.7 / −9.4 pp |
| mixed (MLP-NVFP4 + attn-FP8) | 84.15 % (82.93–85.98) | 46.60 % (46.00–46.80) | 2.20 GiB | −2.4 / −4.0 pp |
Both FP8 deltas sit inside the eval's own run-to-run spread — FP8 is effectively
lossless here. NVFP4 costs real accuracy on a 2.5 B dense model (little redundancy
to absorb 4-bit weights); pick it only if the extra ~0.8 GiB matters for your KV
budget.
Full comparison, serving notes, and a fine-tune experiment that regressed the
base's coding (so these quants target the released checkpoint):
https://github.com/t-timms/minicpm5-2b-quants
Usage
vllm serve Ttimms/MiniCPM5-2B-FP8 --max-model-len 32768 --kv-cache-dtype fp8
from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
llm = LLM("Ttimms/MiniCPM5-2B-FP8", trust_remote_code=True)
print(llm.chat([{"role": "user", "content": "Write a Python LRU cache."}],
SamplingParams(temperature=0.6, max_tokens=512))[0].outputs[0].text)
On WSL, set VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=0 (the V2 runner needs UVA, which WSL
disables).
Method & provenance
- Quantizer:
llm-compressor 0.13, QuantizationModifier(scheme="FP8_DYNAMIC"),
ignore lm_head + embed_tokens. No calibration data required (dynamic activations).
- Base:
openbmb/MiniCPM5-2B (LlamaForCausalLM, 2.5 B, Apache-2.0).
- Built and evaluated on an RTX 5070 Ti (Blackwell, SM120), vLLM 0.26.
License
Apache-2.0, inherited from openbmb/MiniCPM5-2B.