DuoNeural/Qwen3-8B-Instruct-GGUF

Qwen3-8B-Instruct — GGUF Quants

Quantized GGUF versions of Qwen/Qwen3-8B-Instruct — Alibaba's Qwen3 instruction-tuned 8B model. Fine-tuned for chat and instruction following with improved reasoning and tool use over Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct.

Available Files

File	Quant	Size	Use Case
Qwen3-8B-Instruct-Q8_0.gguf	Q8_0	~8.6GB	Maximum quality
Qwen3-8B-Instruct-Q6_K.gguf	Q6_K	~6.6GB	Near-lossless
Qwen3-8B-Instruct-Q5_K_M.gguf	Q5_K_M	~5.7GB	High quality
Qwen3-8B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf	Q4_K_M	~4.9GB	Recommended default
Qwen3-8B-Instruct-Q3_K_M.gguf	Q3_K_M	~3.9GB	Low VRAM
Qwen3-8B-Instruct-IQ4_XS.gguf	IQ4_XS	~4.3GB	Imatrix 4-bit
Qwen3-8B-Instruct-IQ3_XXS.gguf	IQ3_XXS	~3.2GB	Imatrix 3-bit
Qwen3-8B-Instruct-IQ2_M.gguf	IQ2_M	~2.8GB	Imatrix 2-bit
Qwen3-8B-Instruct-IQ1_S.gguf	IQ1_S	~2.0GB	Extreme compression
Qwen3-8B-Instruct-fp16.gguf	FP16	~16.0GB	Full precision
imatrix.dat	—	—	Importance matrix

Usage

./llama-cli -m Qwen3-8B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf --ctx-size 8192 -n 512 \
  -p "<|im_start|>system\nYou are a helpful assistant.<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>user\nHello!<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>assistant\n"

# Ollama
ollama run hf.co/DuoNeural/Qwen3-8B-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M

• Parameters: 8B | License: Apache 2.0 | Context: 32K tokens

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Quantized by DuoNeural using llama.cpp on RTX 5090.

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Nano-CTM: Ternary Continuous Thought Machines with Thought-Space Self-Prediction for Efficient Iterative Reasoning	10.5281/zenodo.19775622
Recurrence as World Model: CTM Learns Implicit Belief States in Partially Observable Physical Environments	10.5281/zenodo.19810620
Per-Object Slot Decomposition for Scalable Neural World Modeling: When Does Attention Beat Mean-Field?	10.5281/zenodo.19846804
The Dynamical Horizon Principle: CTM Gates Converge to the Predictability Limit of Dynamical Systems	10.5281/zenodo.19952612

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