bartowski/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-GGUF

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base_model: HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct language:

• en

license: apache-2.0 pipeline_tag: text-generation quantized_by: bartowski

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Llamacpp imatrix Quantizations of SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct

Using llama.cpp release b3991 for quantization.

Original model: https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct

All quants made using imatrix option with dataset from here

Run them in LM Studio

Prompt format

<|im_start|>system
{systemprompt}<|imend|>
<|im_start|>user
{prompt}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant

Download a file (not the whole branch) from below:

Filename	Quant type	File Size	Split	Description
SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-f16.gguf	f16	3.42GB	false	Full F16 weights.
SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-Q80.gguf	Q80	1.82GB	false	Extremely high quality, generally unneeded but max available quant.
SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-Q6KL.gguf	Q6KL	1.43GB	false	Uses Q80 for embed and output weights. Very high quality, near perfect, recommended.
SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-Q6K.gguf	Q6K	1.41GB	false	Very high quality, near perfect, recommended.
SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-Q5KL.gguf	Q5KL	1.25GB	false	Uses Q80 for embed and output weights. High quality, recommended.
SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-Q5KM.gguf	Q5K_M	1.23GB	false	High quality, recommended.
SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-Q5KS.gguf	Q5K_S	1.19GB	false	High quality, recommended.
SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-Q4KL.gguf	Q4KL	1.08GB	false	Uses Q80 for embed and output weights. Good quality, recommended.
SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-Q4KM.gguf	Q4K_M	1.06GB	false	Good quality, default size for must use cases, recommended.
SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-Q4KS.gguf	Q4K_S	1.00GB	false	Slightly lower quality with more space savings, recommended.
SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-Q4088.gguf	Q4088	0.99GB	false	Optimized for ARM inference. Requires 'sve' support (see link below). Don't use on Mac or Windows.
SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-Q4048.gguf	Q4048	0.99GB	false	Optimized for ARM inference. Requires 'i8mm' support (see link below). Don't use on Mac or Windows.
SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-Q4044.gguf	Q4044	0.99GB	false	Optimized for ARM inference. Should work well on all ARM chips, pick this if you're unsure. Don't use on Mac or Windows.
SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-Q40.gguf	Q40	0.99GB	false	Legacy format, generally not worth using over similarly sized formats
SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-Q3KXL.gguf	Q3KXL	0.96GB	false	Uses Q80 for embed and output weights. Lower quality but usable, good for low RAM availability.
SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-IQ4XS.gguf	IQ4XS	0.94GB	false	Decent quality, smaller than Q4KS with similar performance, recommended.
SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-Q3KL.gguf	Q3K_L	0.93GB	false	Lower quality but usable, good for low RAM availability.
SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-Q3KM.gguf	Q3K_M	0.86GB	false	Low quality.
SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-IQ3M.gguf	IQ3M	0.81GB	false	Medium-low quality, new method with decent performance comparable to Q3KM.
SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-Q3KS.gguf	Q3K_S	0.78GB	false	Low quality, not recommended.
SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-IQ3XS.gguf	IQ3XS	0.74GB	false	Lower quality, new method with decent performance, slightly better than Q3KS.
SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-Q2KL.gguf	Q2KL	0.70GB	false	Uses Q80 for embed and output weights. Very low quality but surprisingly usable.
SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-Q2K.gguf	Q2K	0.67GB	false	Very low quality but surprisingly usable.

Embed/output weights

Some of these quants (Q3KXL, Q4KL etc) are the standard quantization method with the embeddings and output weights quantized to Q8_0 instead of what they would normally default to.

Some say that this improves the quality, others don't notice any difference. If you use these models PLEASE COMMENT with your findings. I would like feedback that these are actually used and useful so I don't keep uploading quants no one is using.

Thanks!

Downloading using huggingface-cli

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/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-GGUF --include "SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-Q4KM.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/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-GGUF --include "SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-Q8_0/*" --local-dir ./

You can either specify a new local-dir (SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-Q8_0) or download them all in place (./)

Q40X_X

These are NOT for Metal (Apple) offloading, only ARM chips.

If you're using an ARM chip, the Q40XX quants will have a substantial speedup. Check out Q4044 speed comparisons on the original pull request

To check which one would work best for your ARM chip, you can check AArch64 SoC features (thanks EloyOn!).

Which file should I choose?

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'.

If you don't want to think too much, grab one of the K-quants. These are in format 'QXKX', like Q5KM.

If you want to get more into the weeds, you can check out this extremely useful feature chart:

llama.cpp feature matrix

But basically, if you're aiming for below Q4, and you're running cuBLAS (Nvidia) or rocBLAS (AMD), you should look towards the I-quants. These are in format IQXX, like IQ3M. These are newer and offer better performance for their size.

These I-quants can also be used on CPU and Apple Metal, but will be slower than their K-quant equivalent, so speed vs performance is a tradeoff you'll have to decide.

The I-quants are not compatible with Vulcan, which is also AMD, so if you have an AMD card double check if you're using the rocBLAS build or the Vulcan build. At the time of writing this, LM Studio has a preview with ROCm support, and other inference engines have specific builds for ROCm.

Credits

Thank you kalomaze and Dampf for assistance in creating the imatrix calibration dataset

Thank you ZeroWw for the inspiration to experiment with embed/output

Want to support my work? Visit my ko-fi page here: https://ko-fi.com/bartowski