mlabonne_Qwen3 - 4B - abliterated - GGUF Open - source Model: A Text Generation Tool Supporting Multiple Types of Quantization

Mlabonne Qwen3 4B Abliterated GGUF

Developed by bartowski

Quantized version of Qwen3-4B-abliterated, quantized using llama.cpp, supports multiple quantization types, suitable for text generation tasks.

Large Language Model #Efficient Quantization #Multi-format Adaptation #Lightweight Deployment

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Release Time : 4/29/2025

Model Overview

This is a quantized version based on the Qwen3-4B-abliterated model, quantized using the llama.cpp tool, supporting multiple quantization types and suitable for text generation tasks. The model can run in environments such as LM Studio and llama.cpp.

Model Features

Multiple Quantization Options

Offers various quantization types from BF16 to Q2_K to meet different hardware and performance needs.

imatrix Quantization

Uses the imatrix option for quantization to enhance model performance.

Broad Compatibility

Supports running in various environments such as LM Studio and llama.cpp.

Embedding/Output Weight Optimization

Certain quantization types include special optimizations for embedding and output weights to improve performance.

Model Capabilities

Text Generation

Multi-turn Dialogue

Supports System Prompts

Use Cases

Text Generation

Dialogue System

Can be used to build multi-turn dialogue systems, supporting system prompts and user input.

Content Creation

Generates articles, stories, and other textual content.

🚀 Llamacpp imatrix Quantizations of Qwen3-4B-abliterated by mlabonne

This project provides quantized versions of the Qwen3-4B-abliterated model using llama.cpp. It offers various quantization types with different file sizes and qualities, suitable for different hardware configurations and performance requirements.

🚀 Quick Start

Running the Model

Using LM Studio: You can run the quantized models in LM Studio.
Using llama.cpp: Run the models directly with llama.cpp, or any other llama.cpp - based project.

Prompt Format

<|im_start|>system
{system_prompt}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
{prompt}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant

✨ Features

Quantization Details

Quantization Tool: Using llama.cpp release b5200 for quantization.
Original Model: The original model can be found at https://huggingface.co/mlabonne/Qwen3-4B-abliterated.
Quantization Option: All quants are made using the imatrix option with the dataset from here.

Model Files

Property	Details
Model Type	Quantized versions of Qwen3 - 4B - abliterated
Training Data	Dataset from here

Downloadable Files

Filename	Quant type	File Size	Split	Description
Qwen3-4B-abliterated-bf16.gguf	bf16	8.05GB	false	Full BF16 weights.
Qwen3-4B-abliterated-Q8_0.gguf	Q8_0	4.28GB	false	Extremely high quality, generally unneeded but max available quant.
Qwen3-4B-abliterated-Q6_K_L.gguf	Q6_K_L	3.40GB	false	Uses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Very high quality, near perfect, recommended.
Qwen3-4B-abliterated-Q6_K.gguf	Q6_K	3.31GB	false	Very high quality, near perfect, recommended.
Qwen3-4B-abliterated-Q5_K_L.gguf	Q5_K_L	2.98GB	false	Uses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. High quality, recommended.
Qwen3-4B-abliterated-Q5_K_M.gguf	Q5_K_M	2.89GB	false	High quality, recommended.
Qwen3-4B-abliterated-Q5_K_S.gguf	Q5_K_S	2.82GB	false	High quality, recommended.
Qwen3-4B-abliterated-Q4_1.gguf	Q4_1	2.60GB	false	Legacy format, similar performance to Q4_K_S but with improved tokens/watt on Apple silicon.
Qwen3-4B-abliterated-Q4_K_L.gguf	Q4_K_L	2.59GB	false	Uses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Good quality, recommended.
Qwen3-4B-abliterated-Q4_K_M.gguf	Q4_K_M	2.50GB	false	Good quality, default size for most use cases, recommended.
Qwen3-4B-abliterated-Q4_K_S.gguf	Q4_K_S	2.38GB	false	Slightly lower quality with more space savings, recommended.
Qwen3-4B-abliterated-Q4_0.gguf	Q4_0	2.38GB	false	Legacy format, offers online repacking for ARM and AVX CPU inference.
Qwen3-4B-abliterated-IQ4_NL.gguf	IQ4_NL	2.38GB	false	Similar to IQ4_XS, but slightly larger. Offers online repacking for ARM CPU inference.
Qwen3-4B-abliterated-Q3_K_XL.gguf	Q3_K_XL	2.33GB	false	Uses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Lower quality but usable, good for low RAM availability.
Qwen3-4B-abliterated-IQ4_XS.gguf	IQ4_XS	2.27GB	false	Decent quality, smaller than Q4_K_S with similar performance, recommended.
Qwen3-4B-abliterated-Q3_K_L.gguf	Q3_K_L	2.24GB	false	Lower quality but usable, good for low RAM availability.
Qwen3-4B-abliterated-Q3_K_M.gguf	Q3_K_M	2.08GB	false	Low quality.
Qwen3-4B-abliterated-IQ3_M.gguf	IQ3_M	1.96GB	false	Medium - low quality, new method with decent performance comparable to Q3_K_M.
Qwen3-4B-abliterated-Q3_K_S.gguf	Q3_K_S	1.89GB	false	Low quality, not recommended.
Qwen3-4B-abliterated-IQ3_XS.gguf	IQ3_XS	1.81GB	false	Lower quality, new method with decent performance, slightly better than Q3_K_S.
Qwen3-4B-abliterated-Q2_K_L.gguf	Q2_K_L	1.76GB	false	Uses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Very low quality but surprisingly usable.
Qwen3-4B-abliterated-IQ3_XXS.gguf	IQ3_XXS	1.67GB	false	Lower quality, new method with decent performance, comparable to Q3 quants.
Qwen3-4B-abliterated-Q2_K.gguf	Q2_K	1.67GB	false	Very low quality but surprisingly usable.
Qwen3-4B-abliterated-IQ2_M.gguf	IQ2_M	1.51GB	false	Relatively low quality, uses SOTA techniques to be surprisingly usable.

📦 Installation

Downloading using huggingface - cli

Click to view download instructions

First, make sure you have hugginface - cli installed:

pip install -U "huggingface_hub[cli]"

Then, you can target the specific file you want:

huggingface-cli download bartowski/mlabonne_Qwen3-4B-abliterated-GGUF --include "mlabonne_Qwen3-4B-abliterated-Q4_K_M.gguf" --local-dir ./

If the model is bigger than 50GB, it will have been split into multiple files. In order to download them all to a local folder, run:

huggingface-cli download bartowski/mlabonne_Qwen3-4B-abliterated-GGUF --include "mlabonne_Qwen3-4B-abliterated-Q8_0/*" --local-dir ./

You can either specify a new local - dir (mlabonne_Qwen3-4B-abliterated-Q8_0) or download them all in place (./)

🔧 Technical Details

Embed/Output Weights

Some of these quants (Q3_K_XL, Q4_K_L etc) are the standard quantization method with the embeddings and output weights quantized to Q8_0 instead of what they would normally default to.

ARM/AVX Information

Previously, you would download Q4_0_4_4/4_8/8_8, and these would have their weights interleaved in memory in order to improve performance on ARM and AVX machines by loading up more data in one pass.

Now, however, there is something called "online repacking" for weights. Details in this PR. If you use Q4_0 and your hardware would benefit from repacking weights, it will do it automatically on the fly.

As of llama.cpp build b4282 you will not be able to run the Q4_0_X_X files and will instead need to use Q4_0.

Additionally, if you want to get slightly better quality, you can use IQ4_NL thanks to this PR which will also repack the weights for ARM, though only the 4_4 for now. The loading time may be slower but it will result in an overall speed increase.

Click to view Q4_0_X_X information (deprecated)

I'm keeping this section to show the potential theoretical uplift in performance from using the Q4_0 with online repacking.

Click to view benchmarks on an AVX2 system (EPYC7702)

model	size	params	backend	threads	test	t/s	% (vs Q4_0)
qwen2 3B Q4_0	1.70 GiB	3.09 B	CPU	64	pp512	204.03 ± 1.03	100%
qwen2 3B Q4_0	1.70 GiB	3.09 B	CPU	64	pp1024	282.92 ± 0.19	100%
qwen2 3B Q4_0	1.70 GiB	3.09 B	CPU	64	pp2048	259.49 ± 0.44	100%
qwen2 3B Q4_0	1.70 GiB	3.09 B	CPU	64	tg128	39.12 ± 0.27	100%
qwen2 3B Q4_0	1.70 GiB	3.09 B	CPU	64	tg256	39.31 ± 0.69	100%
qwen2 3B Q4_0	1.70 GiB	3.09 B	CPU	64	tg512	40.52 ± 0.03	100%
qwen2 3B Q4_K_M	1.79 GiB	3.09 B	CPU	64	pp512	301.02 ± 1.74	147%
qwen2 3B Q4_K_M	1.79 GiB	3.09 B	CPU	64	pp1024	287.23 ± 0.20	101%
qwen2 3B Q4_K_M	1.79 GiB	3.09 B	CPU	64	pp2048	262.77 ± 1.81	101%
qwen2 3B Q4_K_M	1.79 GiB	3.09 B	CPU	64	tg128	18.80 ± 0.99	48%
qwen2 3B Q4_K_M	1.79 GiB	3.09 B	CPU	64	tg256	24.46 ± 3.04	83%
qwen2 3B Q4_K_M	1.79 GiB	3.09 B	CPU	64	tg512	36.32 ± 3.59	90%
qwen2 3B Q4_0_8_8	1.69 GiB	3.09 B	CPU	64	pp512	271.71 ± 3.53	133%
qwen2 3B Q4_0_8_8	1.69 GiB	3.09 B	CPU	64	pp1024	279.86 ± 45.63	100%
qwen2 3B Q4_0_8_8	1.69 GiB	3.09 B	CPU	64	pp2048	320.77 ± 5.00	124%
qwen2 3B Q4_0_8_8	1.69 GiB	3.09 B	CPU	64	tg128	43.51 ± 0.05	111%
qwen2 3B Q4_0_8_8	1.69 GiB	3.09 B	CPU	64	tg256	43.35 ± 0.09	110%
qwen2 3B Q4_0_8_8	1.69 GiB	3.09 B	CPU	64	tg512	42.60 ± 0.31	105%

Q4_0_8_8 offers a nice bump to prompt processing and a small bump to text generation

📚 Documentation

Which File Should I Choose?

Click here for details

A great write - up with charts showing various performances is provided by Artefact2 here

The first thing to figure out is how big a model you can run. To do this, you'll need to figure out how much RAM and/or VRAM you have.

If you want your model running as FAST as possible, you'll want to fit the whole thing on your GPU's VRAM. Aim for a quant with a file size 1 - 2GB smaller than your GPU's total VRAM.

If you want the absolute maximum quality, add both your system RAM and your GPU's VRAM together, then similarly grab a quant with a file size 1 - 2GB smaller than that total.

Next, you'll need to decide if you want to use an 'I - quant' or a 'K - quant'.

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