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library_name: gguf
tags:
- llama
- quantized
- gptq
- evopress
model_type: llama
base_model: meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct
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# Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct GGUF DASLab Quantization
This repository contains advanced quantized versions of Llama 3.2 1B Instruct using **GPTQ quantization** and **GPTQ+EvoPress optimization** from the [DASLab GGUF Toolkit](https://github.com/IST-DASLab/gguf-toolkit).
## Models
- **GPTQ Uniform**: High-quality GPTQ quantization at 2-6 bit precision
- **GPTQ+EvoPress**: Non-uniform per-layer quantization discovered via evolutionary search
## Performance
Our GPTQ-based quantization methods achieve **superior quality-compression tradeoffs** compared to standard quantization:
- **Better perplexity** at equivalent bitwidths vs. naive quantization approaches
- **Error-correcting updates** during calibration for improved accuracy
- **Optimized configurations** that allocate bits based on layer sensitivity (EvoPress)
## Usage
Compatible with llama.cpp and all GGUF-supporting inference engines. No special setup required.
**Full documentation, evaluation results, and toolkit source**: https://github.com/IST-DASLab/gguf-toolkit
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