Model
- Architecture: Qwen3.8-27B
- Parameter class: 27B
- Modality: Image + Text → Text
- Original model type: multimodal / vision-language
- Quantization: W4A16
- Weight precision: INT4
- Activation precision: 16-bit
- Group size: 128
- Quantization style: symmetric, group-wise
- Runtime format: llm_compressor / packed quantized
- Quantization algorithm: SignRound
- Quantization framework: AutoRound 0.15.0
The original model's multimodal capability is retained. The vision component was not converted into a text-only model.
Quantization
The 64 transformer language layers were quantized to:
- 4-bit integer weights
- 16-bit activations
- group size 128
- symmetric group-wise quantization
Calibration and optimization:
Table with columns: Setting, Value| Setting | Value |
|---|
| AutoRound version | 0.15.0 |
| Dataset | NeelNanda/pile-10k |
| Calibration samples | 128 |
| Optimization iterations | 200 |
| Sequence length | 2048 |
| Batch size | 1 |
| Gradient accumulation | 8 |
| Torch compile | enabled on GPU |
| Disk streaming |
Head, Embedding and MTP preparation
The language-model output head, embeddings, and MTP components were prepared separately from the main 4-bit transformer body.
LM head
- INT8
- group size 128
- symmetric
- packed quantized representation
Token embeddings
- INT8
- group size 128
- symmetric
- packed quantized representation
MTP modules
The MTP linear components were quantized separately and preserved in the final model package.
The final package also includes the required packed draft LM head and:
mtp_draft_vocab_ids.pt
for MTP/speculative decoding setups that support this format.
Original model lineage
Base model:
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
Original fine-tuned model:
DavidAU/Qwen3.8-27B-TURBO-Fable-Cold-Fusion-735-882-Heretic-Uncensored-NM-DAU
This repository:
punalmanalan/Qwen3.8-27B-TURBO-Fable-Cold-Fusion-735-882-Heretic-Uncensored-NM-DAU-W4A16-AutoRound
Relationship:
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
↓
DavidAU/Qwen3.8-27B-TURBO-Fable-Cold-Fusion-735-882-Heretic-Uncensored-NM-DAU
↓
W4A16 AutoRound quantization
↓
This repository
The original model is an Image-Text-to-Text model.
This quantized repository preserves the multimodal model structure and is not intended to be treated as a text-only checkpoint.
The primary Hugging Face task is therefore:
image-text-to-text
Example high-level Transformers usage:
from transformers import pipeline
pipe = pipeline(
"image-text-to-text",
model="punalmanalan/Qwen3.8-27B-TURBO-Fable-Cold-Fusion-735-882-Heretic-Uncensored-NM-DAU-W4A16-AutoRound"
)
For runtimes that support the underlying multimodal architecture, image and text inputs can be supplied through the processor/model interface.
Runtime support for vision input depends on the inference framework and its support for this quantized format.
Context length
The original model supports a native context length of 262,144 tokens.
This quantized package was prepared for long-context inference and can be used with serving configurations above the native window only when the selected runtime and RoPE/context configuration explicitly support it.
Do not assume that increasing max_model_len automatically makes every runtime configuration safe or performant.
Intended use
This quantization is intended for efficient local inference, particularly on consumer GPUs where the original BF16 checkpoint is expensive to load.
Typical use cases include:
- coding
- reasoning
- creative writing
- instruction following
- conversational workloads
- image understanding, where supported by the serving runtime
- MTP/speculative decoding, where supported
Accuracy / quality
Quantization necessarily changes the numerical representation of the model weights, so this checkpoint is not mathematically identical to the original BF16 model.
This repository was prepared specifically to reduce that loss while providing substantially lower memory usage.
No claim is made here that the quantized checkpoint is benchmark-identical to BF16. Users should evaluate both versions on their own workload when exact quality comparisons are important.
Inference
This package is intended primarily for inference frameworks that support:
- Qwen3.8 multimodal models
compressed-tensors
- packed W4A16 quantization
- MTP/speculative decoding where applicable
It was prepared and tested around a patched vLLM 0.27.1 serving stack with MTP support.
The exact runtime configuration used for this repository is documented separately in the associated deployment project.
File contents
The repository contains:
- 67 model shards
model_extra_tensors.safetensors
model.safetensors.index.json
config.json
- tokenizer files
- generation configuration
- chat template
- MTP draft vocabulary IDs
- packed MTP tensors
Important
This repository is a quantization of the original DavidAU model.
It is not a new fine-tune.
It is not a new merge.
It is not the BIGBANG model.
It is not the NOESIS model.
It is the original:
DavidAU/Qwen3.8-27B-TURBO-Fable-Cold-Fusion-735-882-Heretic-Uncensored-NM-DAU
converted to a W4A16 AutoRound inference format.
Credits
Original model:
DavidAU
Original model page:
https://huggingface.co/DavidAU/Qwen3.8-27B-TURBO-Fable-Cold-Fusion-735-882-Heretic-Uncensored-NM-DAU
Quantization and packaging:
Punal Manalan
Quantization tooling:
Intel AutoRound
Calibration dataset:
NeelNanda/pile-10k