Quantization Configuration
Table with columns: Parameter, Value| Parameter | Value |
|---|
| Base Model | deepreinforce-ai/Ornith-1.0-35B |
| Quantization Scheme | W4A16 (4-bit weights, 16-bit activations) |
| Quantization Engine | Intel Auto-Round |
| Group Size | 64 |
| Calibration Sequence Length | 2048 |
Calibration Samples (nsamples) | 64 |
Optimization Iterations (iters) | 300 |
| Format | auto_round |
Quickstart & Serving
Ornith-1.0-35B is a reasoning model: by default, the assistant turn opens with a <think> ... </think> block before the final answer. The serving commands below configure the reasoning and tool-call parsers so the chain-of-thought is returned in a separate reasoning_content field.
1. Launch with vLLM
Install vLLM (version >= 0.25.1 recommended):
pip install auto-round vllm
Start the vLLM OpenAI-compatible server:
vllm serve urakozz/Ornith-1.0-35B-int4-Autoround \
--served-model-name Ornith-1.0-35B-int4-Autoround \
--quantization auto-round \
--host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000 \
--max-model-len 131072 \
--gpu-memory-utilization 0.90 \
--enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_xml \
--reasoning-parser qwen3 \
--trust-remote-code
2. Querying the OpenAI-Compatible API
Once the vLLM server is running, connect via any OpenAI client:
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="http://localhost:8000/v1",
api_key="EMPTY",
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="Ornith-1.0-35B-int4-Autoround",
messages=[
{"role": "user", "content": "Write a Python function to check if a number is prime."}
],
temperature=0.6,
top_p=0.95,
max_tokens=2048,
)
message = response.choices[0].message
print("Reasoning:", getattr(message, "reasoning_content", None))
print("Answer:", message.content)
- VRAM Savings: Quantizing the 35B model with
W4A16 and group_size=64 reduces memory consumption from ~70GB+ down to ~20–22GB VRAM, enabling execution on single consumer/workstation GPUs.
- Accuracy: Auto-Round optimizes quantization parameters over 300 iterations per block, significantly mitigating quantization loss compared to standard round-to-nearest (RTN) methods.
Acknowledgments & Citation
@misc{ornith-35b,
title = {{Ornith-1.0-35B}: Agentic Coding, Open to All},
url = {[https://deep-reinforce.com/ornith_1_0.html](https://deep-reinforce.com/ornith_1_0.html)},
author = {{DeepReinforce Team}},
year = {2026}
}