Vishva007/Qwen3.5-0.8B-W4A16-AutoRound

This is a W4A16 (4-bit weight, 16-bit activation) quantized version of Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B, produced using AutoRound — Intel's sign gradient descent based quantization method designed for production-grade accuracy retention.

Quantization Details

Parameter	Value
Method	AutoRound (W4A16)
Group Size	128
Symmetric	Yes
Iterations	1000
Calibration Samples	512
Sequence Length	2048
Torch Compile	Enabled

Key Notes

• Ultra-high accuracy configuration — 1000 iterations with 512 calibration samples ensures near-lossless quantization, especially critical at this model scale where parameter budget is tight.
• W4A16 — Weights are quantized to 4-bit integers; activations remain in FP16 for inference stability.
• Extremely lightweight — The quantized 0.8B model is suitable for edge deployment, low-latency inference, and resource-constrained environments.
• ~50% memory reduction compared to the FP16 base model.

Usage

This model is compatible with transformers and backends that support AutoRound format weights (e.g., vLLM, SGLang). For full model details, architecture, and capabilities, refer to the base model page.