docs: upstream-first KV-cache guidance (q8_0/q4_0, mainline Hadamard rotation); fork demoted to experimental
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# Leanstral-RotorQuant-MLX-8bit
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**8-bit MLX weight-quantized [Leanstral-2603](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Leanstral-2603) with [RotorQuant](https://github.com/scrya-com/rotorquant) KV-cache quantization for Lean 4 formal proof generation on Apple Silicon.**
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> [!TIP]
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> **KV-cache quantization without any fork (recommended, 2026):** upstream
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> llama.cpp/Ollama now cover this natively — use `-ctk q8_0 -ctv q8_0`
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> (~half KV memory, negligible quality loss: perplexity +0.002–0.05) or
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> `-ctk q4_0 -ctv q4_0` (~quarter memory, ≈7.6% perplexity increase). In
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> Ollama: `OLLAMA_KV_CACHE_TYPE=q8_0` with `OLLAMA_FLASH_ATTENTION=1`. Keep
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> K and V types symmetric to stay on the fast fused Flash-Attention path.
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> Since April 2026, mainline llama.cpp also applies Hadamard rotation to
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> KV activations ([PR #21038](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/21038)),
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> which greatly improves low-bit KV quality (opt-out:
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> `LLAMA_ATTN_ROT_DISABLE=1`).
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> The RotorQuant/TurboQuant fork flow below is **experimental/legacy**: the
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> TurboQuant llama.cpp PR was closed without merging (June 2026) and the fork
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> is unmaintained relative to mainline. It is NOT required to use this model.
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# Leanstral-RotorQuant-MLX-8bit
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**8-bit MLX weight-quantized [Leanstral-2603](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Leanstral-2603) with [RotorQuant](https://github.com/scrya-com/rotorquant) KV-cache quantization for Lean 4 formal proof generation on Apple Silicon.**
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