Quantization
Table with columns: Component, Method, Weight format, Details| Component | Method | Weight format | Details |
|---|
| Decoder Linear layers | AutoRound | symmetric INT4, group size 256 | 196 modules; lm_head excluded; W4A16 |
lm_head | GPTQ | symmetric INT4, group size 256 | static activation ordering; block size 128; dampening 0.01 |
| Activations | — | FP16/BF16 runtime activation path | not activation-quantized by this checkpoint |
Calibration used 512 fixed-order samples from NeelNanda/pile-10k, with a
sequence length of 1024 tokens. AutoRound used 200 iterations, batch size 1,
and device ID 0.
Evaluation
Perplexity is measured with lm-eval on
EleutherAI/wikitext_document_level, wikitext-2-raw-v1, with no example
limit and the rolling word-perplexity metric. Source and quantized runs use
identical evaluator settings.
Table with columns: Checkpoint, Word perplexity, Status| Checkpoint | Word perplexity | Status |
|---|
Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B | 29.3376 | Full run: 2026-07-15 |
| This Autoround Safetensors checkpoint | 33.6043 | Full run: 2026-07-15 |
| Absolute degradation | +4.2667 | quantized - source; lower is better |
| Relative degradation | +14.543% | 100 * (quantized / source - 1) |
The raw full-run results are retained in perplexity_results/full_wikitext/
in the quantization workspace.
Reproduction
This directory includes the exact quantize.py, recipe.yaml, and
versions.txt used for this release. Reproduce after activating a compatible
environment:
python quantize.py \
--model-path /path/to/Qwen3-0.6B \
--output-dir /path/to/new-output-directory
The quantization job completed successfully on an NVIDIA A100 80 GB GPU on
2026-07-15. Saved quantization scales were checked for NaN/Inf values. A
Transformers compressed-checkpoint smoke test also passed on an NVIDIA A100 80
GB GPU: 197 compressed modules, including a compressed lm_head, loaded and
completed greedy generation.
Environment
Exact package and runtime versions are recorded in versions.txt.
Deployment
This directory contains the pre-LLiMa quantized Hugging Face artifact. Compile
it for the target Sima.ai platform with the appropriate LLiMa release, for
example:
llima-compile /path/to/Qwen3-0.6B-Autoround-Safetensors
Treat compiler output as a separate deployment artifact unless its release
format and redistribution terms have been explicitly approved.
Limitations
Quantization can affect quality, especially for tasks unlike the calibration
data. Validate this checkpoint for your language, domain, prompt format,
context length, safety requirements, and deployment runtime before use.