Hybrid Naming Scheme & Benchmark Synopsis
This report summarizes baseline and hybrid quantization results for Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct-unsloth as measured by the Magic Quant pipeline.
Naming Scheme
Model variants follow a structured suffix convention that encodes both the base conversion mode and per-tensor quantization schemes.
| Suffix Example | Meaning |
|---|---|
BF16 |
Pure full-precision family baseline (no quantization). |
Q8_0, Q6_K, Q5_K, Q4_K_M, IQ4_NL, MXFP4_MOE |
Pure model-wide quantization baselines. |
iq4_nl-emb_Q4_K-head_Q4_K-moe_rt_Q4_K |
Base conversion mode iq4_nl with per-group schemes: embeddings (emb_), output head (head_), MoE router (moe_rt_). |
...-aq_F16-akv_Q8_0-fd_Q4_K-ao_Q5_K |
Extended sensitivity groups: Attention Q (aq_), Attention K+V (akv_), FFN Down (fd_), Attention Output (ao_). |
mxfp4_moe-emb_IQ4_NL-head_Q6_K-moe_exp_MXFP4-moe_rt_Q6_K |
MXFP4-centric hybrids with MoE expert group (moe_exp_) and mixed IQ / Q-schemes per tensor group. |
In general, anything after the base model name is a purely mechanical description of how the weights were transformed, not a new training run.
Benchmark Methodology
All models were tested with a unified automated harness using llama.cpp tools.
Included tests:
Throughput:
llama-benchwith descending GPU offload (-ngl 35 → 0) and automatic OOM retry.
Highest successful TPS is recorded.Perplexity:
Three domains: general, code, math.
Each uses an auto-generated corpus of ~32k tokens.
Perplexity is computed withllama-perplexityat 2048-token context.
Same GPU retry logic as above.Precision loss:
Each model is compared to its family BF16 baseline.
Precision-loss % is computed for all PPL domains, plus an averaged score.
Models are ranked by this metric.
Table - Overview of Results
Comparing to BF16.
| model_name | size_reduction | tps_change |
|---|---|---|
| mxfp4_moe-akv_BF16-ao_Q5_K-aq_Q8_0-emb_Q5_K-fd_Q8_0-fug_Q8_0-head_BF16 | 41.04% | 54.44% |
| mxfp4_moe-akv_Q8_0-ao_MXFP4-aq_Q8_0-emb_Q8_0-fd_Q8_0-fug_Q8_0-head_Q8_0 | 46.87% | 63.07% |
| mxfp4_moe-akv_Q8_0-ao_IQ4_NL-aq_Q8_0-emb_Q8_0-fd_Q8_0-fug_Q8_0-head_Q8_0 | 46.87% | 62.89% |
| mxfp4_moe-akv_Q6_K-ao_Q6_K-aq_Q8_0-emb_BF16-fd_IQ4_NL-fug_Q6_K-head_Q8_0 | 58.40% | 111.41% |
| Q6_K | 58.98% | 99.91% |
| mxfp4_moe-akv_Q6_K-ao_Q6_K-aq_Q6_K-emb_Q6_K-fd_Q6_K-fug_Q6_K-head_Q6_K | 58.98% | 103.31% |
| mxfp4_moe-akv_IQ4_NL-ao_IQ4_NL-aq_IQ4_NL-emb_IQ4_NL-fd_IQ4_NL-fug_IQ4_NL-head_IQ4_NL | 71.86% | 178.75% |
| mxfp4_moe-akv_IQ4_NL-ao_MXFP4-aq_IQ4_NL-emb_MXFP4-fd_MXFP4-fug_IQ4_NL-head_IQ4_NL | 72.29% | 134.32% |
| MXFP4_MOE | 73.42% | 78.22% |
| mxfp4_moe-akv_MXFP4-ao_MXFP4-aq_MXFP4-emb_MXFP4-fd_MXFP4-fug_MXFP4-head_MXFP4 | 73.42% | 78.14% |
- All percentages compared against the selected family BF16 baseline.
Table - File Size + TPS + Avg Precision Loss
| model_name | file_size_gb | bench_tps | avg_prec_loss |
|---|---|---|---|
| BF16 | 67.35 | 11.48 | 0.0000% |
| mxfp4_moe-akv_BF16-ao_Q5_K-aq_Q8_0-emb_Q5_K-fd_Q8_0-fug_Q8_0-head_BF16 | 39.71 | 17.73 | 0.0213% |
| mxfp4_moe-akv_Q8_0-ao_MXFP4-aq_Q8_0-emb_Q8_0-fd_Q8_0-fug_Q8_0-head_Q8_0 | 35.78 | 18.72 | 0.0272% |
| mxfp4_moe-akv_Q8_0-ao_IQ4_NL-aq_Q8_0-emb_Q8_0-fd_Q8_0-fug_Q8_0-head_Q8_0 | 35.78 | 18.70 | 0.0272% |
| mxfp4_moe-akv_Q6_K-ao_Q6_K-aq_Q8_0-emb_BF16-fd_IQ4_NL-fug_Q6_K-head_Q8_0 | 28.02 | 24.27 | 0.1768% |
| Q6_K | 27.63 | 22.95 | 0.2037% |
| mxfp4_moe-akv_Q6_K-ao_Q6_K-aq_Q6_K-emb_Q6_K-fd_Q6_K-fug_Q6_K-head_Q6_K | 27.63 | 23.34 | 0.2037% |
| mxfp4_moe-akv_IQ4_NL-ao_IQ4_NL-aq_IQ4_NL-emb_IQ4_NL-fd_IQ4_NL-fug_IQ4_NL-head_IQ4_NL | 18.95 | 32.00 | 0.2709% |
| mxfp4_moe-akv_IQ4_NL-ao_MXFP4-aq_IQ4_NL-emb_MXFP4-fd_MXFP4-fug_IQ4_NL-head_IQ4_NL | 18.66 | 26.90 | 0.7098% |
| MXFP4_MOE | 17.90 | 20.46 | 2.7338% |
| mxfp4_moe-akv_MXFP4-ao_MXFP4-aq_MXFP4-emb_MXFP4-fd_MXFP4-fug_MXFP4-head_MXFP4 | 17.90 | 20.45 | 2.7338% |
avg_prec_lossis the averaged absolute precision-loss % vs BF16.
Table - PPL Columns
| model_name | gen | gen_er | code | code_er | math | math_er |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BF16 | 6.8872 | 0.1679 | 1.4128 | 0.0095 | 5.4442 | 0.1209 |
| mxfp4_moe-akv_BF16-ao_Q5_K-aq_Q8_0-emb_Q5_K-fd_Q8_0-fug_Q8_0-head_BF16 | 6.8901 | 0.1680 | 1.4127 | 0.0095 | 5.4434 | 0.1208 |
| mxfp4_moe-akv_Q8_0-ao_MXFP4-aq_Q8_0-emb_Q8_0-fd_Q8_0-fug_Q8_0-head_Q8_0 | 6.8866 | 0.1679 | 1.4130 | 0.0095 | 5.4474 | 0.1210 |
| mxfp4_moe-akv_Q8_0-ao_IQ4_NL-aq_Q8_0-emb_Q8_0-fd_Q8_0-fug_Q8_0-head_Q8_0 | 6.8866 | 0.1679 | 1.4130 | 0.0095 | 5.4474 | 0.1210 |
| mxfp4_moe-akv_Q6_K-ao_Q6_K-aq_Q8_0-emb_BF16-fd_IQ4_NL-fug_Q6_K-head_Q8_0 | 6.8901 | 0.1682 | 1.4156 | 0.0096 | 5.4284 | 0.1203 |
| Q6_K | 6.9012 | 0.1685 | 1.4135 | 0.0095 | 5.4637 | 0.1218 |
| mxfp4_moe-akv_Q6_K-ao_Q6_K-aq_Q6_K-emb_Q6_K-fd_Q6_K-fug_Q6_K-head_Q6_K | 6.9012 | 0.1685 | 1.4135 | 0.0095 | 5.4637 | 0.1218 |
| mxfp4_moe-akv_IQ4_NL-ao_IQ4_NL-aq_IQ4_NL-emb_IQ4_NL-fd_IQ4_NL-fug_IQ4_NL-head_IQ4_NL | 6.8712 | 0.1654 | 1.4162 | 0.0095 | 5.4627 | 0.1201 |
| mxfp4_moe-akv_IQ4_NL-ao_MXFP4-aq_IQ4_NL-emb_MXFP4-fd_MXFP4-fug_IQ4_NL-head_IQ4_NL | 6.8452 | 0.1639 | 1.4140 | 0.0094 | 5.5223 | 0.1222 |
| MXFP4_MOE | 7.1007 | 0.1728 | 1.4351 | 0.0097 | 5.6360 | 0.1239 |
| mxfp4_moe-akv_MXFP4-ao_MXFP4-aq_MXFP4-emb_MXFP4-fd_MXFP4-fug_MXFP4-head_MXFP4 | 7.1007 | 0.1728 | 1.4351 | 0.0097 | 5.6360 | 0.1239 |
- gen = ppl_general, code = ppl_code, math = ppl_math
Table - Precision Loss Columns
| model_name | loss_general | loss_code | loss_math |
|---|---|---|---|
| BF16 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 |
| mxfp4_moe-akv_BF16-ao_Q5_K-aq_Q8_0-emb_Q5_K-fd_Q8_0-fug_Q8_0-head_BF16 | 0.0421 | 0.0071 | 0.0147 |
| mxfp4_moe-akv_Q8_0-ao_MXFP4-aq_Q8_0-emb_Q8_0-fd_Q8_0-fug_Q8_0-head_Q8_0 | 0.0087 | 0.0142 | 0.0588 |
| mxfp4_moe-akv_Q8_0-ao_IQ4_NL-aq_Q8_0-emb_Q8_0-fd_Q8_0-fug_Q8_0-head_Q8_0 | 0.0087 | 0.0142 | 0.0588 |
| mxfp4_moe-akv_Q6_K-ao_Q6_K-aq_Q8_0-emb_BF16-fd_IQ4_NL-fug_Q6_K-head_Q8_0 | 0.0421 | 0.1982 | 0.2902 |
| Q6_K | 0.2033 | 0.0495 | 0.3582 |
| mxfp4_moe-akv_Q6_K-ao_Q6_K-aq_Q6_K-emb_Q6_K-fd_Q6_K-fug_Q6_K-head_Q6_K | 0.2033 | 0.0495 | 0.3582 |
| mxfp4_moe-akv_IQ4_NL-ao_IQ4_NL-aq_IQ4_NL-emb_IQ4_NL-fd_IQ4_NL-fug_IQ4_NL-head_IQ4_NL | 0.2323 | 0.2407 | 0.3398 |
| mxfp4_moe-akv_IQ4_NL-ao_MXFP4-aq_IQ4_NL-emb_MXFP4-fd_MXFP4-fug_IQ4_NL-head_IQ4_NL | 0.6098 | 0.0849 | 1.4346 |
| MXFP4_MOE | 3.1000 | 1.5784 | 3.5230 |
| mxfp4_moe-akv_MXFP4-ao_MXFP4-aq_MXFP4-emb_MXFP4-fd_MXFP4-fug_MXFP4-head_MXFP4 | 3.1000 | 1.5784 | 3.5230 |
- loss_* values are absolute precision-loss % vs BF16 per domain.