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# 88plug AI Lab

Production-grade compressed-tensors quantizations of frontier LLMs, VLMs, and omni models, engineered for native vLLM v0.9.0+ deployment. Every model is validated against the baseline on MMLU and ships with a complete vLLM-ready configuration.

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## Why compressed-tensors

Most quantization formats (AWQ, GPTQ, GGUF) target a single inference backend and ship a frozen weight layout that cannot be further composed or modified at load time. `compressed-tensors` is the format developed by Neural Magic and maintained as a first-class vLLM citizen. Key differences:

- **Native vLLM integration.** No format conversion, no plugin shims. vLLM reads compressed-tensors models directly via its built-in `CompressedTensorsWorker`. This means full PagedAttention, continuous batching, and tensor parallelism work without modification.
- **Composable precision.** A single checkpoint can carry per-layer or per-group precision assignments. Mixed-precision MoE configurations (e.g., FP8 attention + INT4 experts) are expressed in the same file, not hacked around.
- **Reproducible calibration metadata.** The quantization config, calibration scheme, and per-channel scales are stored inside the checkpoint. What you see in the config is exactly what ran.
- **Forward compatibility.** As vLLM adds new kernel support (FP8, INT8, sparse), compressed-tensors models gain that support without re-quantizing.

AWQ and GPTQ remain fine for llama.cpp and older toolchains. If you are deploying on vLLM in production, compressed-tensors is the correct choice.

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## Quality Standard

All models are quantized with AutoRound (iters=200) or RTN where noted.

| Tier | Method | Target Recovery | Hardware Floor |
|------|--------|----------------|----------------|
| W8A16 | RTN / AutoRound iters=200 | Near-lossless (>99.5% MMLU) | Ampere (A100, A6000, RTX 30xx+) |
| W4A16 | AutoRound iters=200 | ≥99% MMLU vs FP16 baseline | Ampere (A100, A6000, RTX 30xx+) |

AutoRound at iters=200 runs sign-gradient optimization over a calibration set to minimize weight rounding error. At W4A16, this closes most of the gap between naive round-to-nearest and GPTQ/AWQ, while producing a checkpoint that vLLM can load natively.

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## Model Catalog

All 16 models are in compressed-tensors format, validated for vLLM v0.9.0+.

### Qwen3.6-35B-A3B — Mixed-Precision MoE, 1M context

| Precision | Repo | Architecture |
|-----------|------|-------------|
| W8A16 | [88plug/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-W8A16](https://huggingface.co/88plug/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-W8A16) | MoE, 35B total / 3.6B active |
| W4A16 | [88plug/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-W4A16](https://huggingface.co/88plug/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-W4A16) | MoE, 35B total / 3.6B active |

### Qwen3.6-27B — Dense Hybrid, 262k context

| Precision | Repo | Architecture |
|-----------|------|-------------|
| W8A16 | [88plug/Qwen3.6-27B-W8A16](https://huggingface.co/88plug/Qwen3.6-27B-W8A16) | Dense, 27B |
| W4A16 | [88plug/Qwen3.6-27B-W4A16](https://huggingface.co/88plug/Qwen3.6-27B-W4A16) | Dense, 27B |

### Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B — Audio + Vision + Speech

| Precision | Repo | Architecture |
|-----------|------|-------------|
| W8A16 | [88plug/Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-W8A16](https://huggingface.co/88plug/Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-W8A16) | Omni MoE, 30B / 3B active |
| W4A16 | [88plug/Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-W4A16](https://huggingface.co/88plug/Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-W4A16) | Omni MoE, 30B / 3B active |

### Qwen2.5-Omni-7B — Efficient Omni

| Precision | Repo | Architecture |
|-----------|------|-------------|
| W8A16 | [88plug/Qwen2.5-Omni-7B-W8A16](https://huggingface.co/88plug/Qwen2.5-Omni-7B-W8A16) | Omni dense, 7B |
| W4A16 | [88plug/Qwen2.5-Omni-7B-W4A16](https://huggingface.co/88plug/Qwen2.5-Omni-7B-W4A16) | Omni dense, 7B |

### Gemma4-E4B-it — Vision-Language Model

| Precision | Repo | Architecture |
|-----------|------|-------------|
| W8A16 | [88plug/Gemma4-E4B-it-W8A16](https://huggingface.co/88plug/Gemma4-E4B-it-W8A16) | VLM, 4B |
| W4A16 | [88plug/Gemma4-E4B-it-W4A16](https://huggingface.co/88plug/Gemma4-E4B-it-W4A16) | VLM, 4B |

### Gemma4-E2B-it — Ultra-Efficient VLM

| Precision | Repo | Architecture |
|-----------|------|-------------|
| W8A16 | [88plug/Gemma4-E2B-it-W8A16](https://huggingface.co/88plug/Gemma4-E2B-it-W8A16) | VLM, 2B |
| W4A16 | [88plug/Gemma4-E2B-it-W4A16](https://huggingface.co/88plug/Gemma4-E2B-it-W4A16) | VLM, 2B |

### MiniCPM-o-4.5 — Omni Model

| Precision | Repo | Architecture |
|-----------|------|-------------|
| W8A16 | [88plug/MiniCPM-o-4.5-W8A16](https://huggingface.co/88plug/MiniCPM-o-4.5-W8A16) | Omni dense |
| W4A16 | [88plug/MiniCPM-o-4.5-W4A16](https://huggingface.co/88plug/MiniCPM-o-4.5-W4A16) | Omni dense |

### Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B — Hybrid SSM/Attention

| Precision | Repo | Architecture |
|-----------|------|-------------|
| W8A16 | [88plug/Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-W8A16](https://huggingface.co/88plug/Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-W8A16) | Hybrid SSM/Attention MoE |
| W4A16 | [88plug/Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-W4A16](https://huggingface.co/88plug/Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-W4A16) | Hybrid SSM/Attention MoE |

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## Quickstart

Requires vLLM v0.9.0+ and an Ampere-class GPU (A100, A6000, RTX 3090/4090, or equivalent).

### Install

```bash
pip install vllm>=0.9.0
```

### Launch (offline inference)

```python
from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams

llm = LLM(
    model="88plug/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-W4A16",
    max_model_len=131072,          # adjust to available VRAM
    tensor_parallel_size=1,        # increase for multi-GPU
)

sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.6, top_p=0.95, max_tokens=512)

outputs = llm.generate(
    ["Explain the tradeoffs between W4A16 and W8A16 quantization for production inference."],
    sampling_params,
)

print(outputs[0].outputs[0].text)
```

### Launch (OpenAI-compatible server)

```bash
vllm serve 88plug/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-W4A16 \
    --max-model-len 131072 \
    --tensor-parallel-size 1 \
    --port 8000
```

```bash
curl http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{
        "model": "88plug/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-W4A16",
        "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "What is compressed-tensors?"}],
        "max_tokens": 256
    }'
```

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## Hardware Requirements

| Model Size | W8A16 VRAM | W4A16 VRAM | Recommended |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|-------------|
| 2B–7B | 8–16 GB | 6–10 GB | Single A6000 / RTX 4090 |
| 27B–35B (dense) | 32–40 GB | 20–28 GB | Single A100 80G or 2x A6000 |
| 30B–35B (MoE, 3B active) | 28–36 GB | 18–24 GB | Single A100 80G or 2x A6000 |

Active-parameter MoE models load all expert weights into VRAM but only route through a subset per token. VRAM requirement is determined by total parameters, not active parameters.

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## Contact

Developer: Andrew Mello  
Organization: [huggingface.co/88plug](https://huggingface.co/88plug)  
Issues and model requests: open a discussion on the relevant model repo.

Model uploads are automated via the [88plug-bot](https://huggingface.co/88plug-bot) account.