base_model: huihui-ai/Huihui-Xing4.0-29B-A4B-abliterated
base_model_relation: quantized
quantized_by: IsValorum
library_name: gguf
license: apache-2.0
language:
- en
- zh
pipeline_tag: text-generation
tags: - gguf
- llama.cpp
- quantized
- quantization
- apex
- apex-quant
- apex-i-nanoplus
- nanoplus
- abliterated
- uncensored
- moe
- mla
- hyper-connections
- reasoning
- text-generation
- coding
- xing4_0
Quick Navigation Index
- Architecture & Methodology Overview
- Empirical Benchmarks & Fidelity Verification
- Quality Spectrum: APEX-I-NanoPlus vs. Standard Flat Quantizations
- Model Files & Technical Specifications
- Surgical Tensor Quantization Map (Audited from GGUF)
- Hardware Throughput & Offload Benchmarks (RTX 30 / 40 / 50 & RAM Streaming)
- Inference Quickstart
- Recommended Generation Parameters
- CRITICAL: Coding Syntax & Repeat Penalty Advisory
- Optional Support
Xing4.0-29B-A4B APEX-I-NanoPlus Abliterated GGUF
The Next-Generation Frontier MoE - Extreme 11.7 GB Footprint - Fast System RAM Streaming & Massive Context on 16GB VRAM
[!IMPORTANT]
THE DEFINITIVE SPECIFICATION IN THE 11 to 12 GB CEILING (STREAMLINED ARCHITECTURE)
This APEX-I-NanoPlus release represents the specialized ultra-compact configuration for sparse Mixture-of-Experts quantization within an 11 to 12 GB envelope. It compresses the 40-layer backbone into a compact 11.74 GB (10.94 GiB) file, enabling full offload with large context on consumer 16GB VRAM cards and fast memory bandwidth streaming from system RAM.
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EMPIRICAL BENCHMARK & QUALITY COMPARISON
Quantization Specification File Size (Disk) Memory Footprint (RAM/VRAM) Average BPW WikiText-2 Perplexity Delta PPL vs BF16 Base Quality Tier Equivalent Unquantized BF16 Base 62.40 GB 58.11 GiB 16.00 BPW 7.3060 +/- 0.18633 Baseline (0.0000) Full precision reference APEX-I-MiniPlus V2.1 13.76 GB 12.82 GiB 3.42 BPW 7.7238 +/- 0.19671 +0.4178 (+5.71%) Q5_K_M tier (bordering Q6_K) APEX-I-NanoPlus (CURRENT) 11.74 GB 10.94 GiB 2.92 BPW 8.3197 +/- 0.21528 +1.0137 (+13.87%) Solid Q4_K_M / Q4_K_S Tier Looking for higher precision? Xing4.0-29B-A4B APEX-I-MiniPlus-V2.1 offers the full 13.76 GB (12.82 GiB / 3.42 BPW) release, delivering Q5_K_M tier (bordering Q6_K) fidelity.
Routing: 100% of recipe-designated
ffn_gate_inprouter matrices remain in uncompressedF32, guaranteeing zero routing drift.
- Solid Q4_K_M Tier in Language Modeling: WikiText-2 perplexity preserves 4-bit distributional fidelity (8.3197 +/- 0.21528) across standard generation in an ultra-lean footprint.
- Solid Q4_K Tier in MoE Foundation Knowledge: Shared expert tensors (
shexp) run inQ4_K, keeping core knowledge intact across 100% of tokens.- Protected MLA Geometry: Latent attention projections in
Q4_Kand the output head inQ6_Kprevent attention collapse.
[!WARNING]
DO NOT CONFUSE APEX-I-NANOPLUS WITH UNCALIBRATED SUB-3-BIT QUANTS!
Never confuse handcrafted APEX-I-NanoPlus builds with uncalibrated homogeneous quantizations:
- Uncalibrated Homogeneous Quants: Uniformly crush all core MoE experts down to aggressive 2-bit codebooks without importance calibration, leave the sensitive token output head unarmored, and compress latent attention projections down to sub-3-bit. In deep reasoning models with MLA, this triggers severe perplexity spikes, routing misdirection, and broken syntax.
- Handcrafted APEX-I-NanoPlus: Applies a surgical tensor-by-tensor architecture that preserves 100% of expert routing matrices in uncompressed
F32(zero router drift), armors the token output head in high-precisionQ6_K, safeguards attention projections inQ4_K, locks shared experts inQ4_K, fortifies down-projection experts inIQ3_XXS, and restricts 2-bit compression strictly to redundant gating/up projections guided by the officialimatrix.
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SYSTEM RAM INFERENCE: FULL OR PARTIAL
This APEX-I-NanoPlus release is designed for full or partial system-RAM inference. Depending on the processor, memory bandwidth, and DDR4/DDR5 configuration, generation can range from 20 to 45 tok/s. With partial GPU offload, systems that cannot fit large contexts entirely in VRAM can place the remaining model and context load in system RAM, maintaining stable, responsive generation at longer context lengths.
Architecture & Methodology Overview
The APEX-I-NanoPlus release applies an ultra-compact tensor-by-tensor allocation engineered specifically for sparse Mixture-of-Experts architectures with Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA), prioritizing execution speed and extreme memory efficiency:
- Zero Router Drift (
F32): All routing matrices (ffn_gate_inpandffn_gate_inp_shexp) are preserved in full 32-bit floating point, guaranteeing 100% routing fidelity matching the uncompressed base model. - Shared Foundation Backbone (
Q4_K): The shared expert (shexp) active across 100% of tokens is armored in linearQ4_Kacross all 40 layers, securing foundational domain knowledge and smooth CPU/GPU streaming. - MLA Latent Projection Armor (
Q4_K/Q6_K): Latent attention projections and output heads are preserved inQ4_KandQ6_K, eliminating attention collapse while keeping memory overhead minimal. - Fortified Residual Down-Projections (
IQ3_XXS): Allffn_down_expsmatrices are maintained at 3.06 BPW to protect the residual stream, while redundant SwiGLU gating and up-projections (ffn_gate_exps,ffn_up_exps) are compressed to 2.50 BPW (IQ2_S) using an authentic 820-chunk importance matrix. - Speculative Head Preservation (
blk.40): The Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) draft head is quantized toQ4_K, enabling speculative acceleration in compatible runtimes.
Empirical Benchmarks & Fidelity Verification
Evaluated directly on the compiled GGUF binary using llama-perplexity over the standard WikiText-2 benchmark:
| Metric | Baseline (BF16 Unquantized) | APEX-I-NanoPlus (Current) | Evaluation Setup |
|---|---|---|---|
| WikiText-2 Perplexity | 7.3060 +/- 0.18633 | 8.3197 +/- 0.21528 | Measured directly on GGUF binary (2048 ctx, 512 batch, 10 chunks) |
| Delta vs BF16 Base | 0.0000 (Reference) | +1.0137 (+13.87%) | Recovers full model coherence; operates at Solid Q4_K_M / Q4_K_S tier |
| Model Footprint | 62.40 GB (58.11 GiB) | 11.74 GB (10.94 GiB) | approx. 81.2% reduction in storage and memory bandwidth |
| Active Memory Overhead | >65 GB VRAM | <14 GB VRAM | Runs completely offloaded on a single RTX 4070 Ti / 4080 / 3090 GPU |
Quality Spectrum: APEX-I-NanoPlus vs. Standard Flat Quantizations
How the handcrafted APEX-I-NanoPlus architecture compares against standard flat quantizations in llama.cpp on 29B Mixture-of-Experts architectures:
| Quantization Format | Bits Per Weight (BPW) | Model Footprint (Disk / VRAM) | Perplexity Delta (vs. BF16 Baseline) | Token Fidelity & Syntactic Stability Tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BF16 Base (Uncompressed) | 16.00 bpw | 62.40 GB | 0.0000 (Reference) | 100% full uncompressed reference fidelity. |
| Standard Q8_0 | 8.50 bpw | approx. 33.2 GB | approx. +0.0100 | Virtually lossless; excessive memory overhead for consumer hardware. |
| Standard Q6_K | 6.56 bpw | approx. 26.0 GB | approx. +0.0500 to +0.1000 | Near-lossless BF16 fidelity; requires 32GB+ VRAM setups. |
| APEX-I-MiniPlus V2.1 | 3.42 bpw | 13.76 GB (12.82 GiB) | +0.4178 (PPL: 7.7238) | Maximum fidelity Q5_K_M / Q6_K tier. Full native context on consumer GPUs. |
| APEX-I-NanoPlus (IsValorum) | 2.92 bpw | 11.74 GB (10.94 GiB) | +1.0137 (PPL: 8.3197 +/- 0.21528) | Solid Q4_K_M fidelity tier at only 11.74 GB (81.2% weight reduction). Enables full offload on 16GB GPUs with 32K context and zero AVX2 CPU stalls. |
| Standard Q4_K_M | 4.50 bpw | approx. 18.0 GB | approx. +0.3500 to +0.5500 | Standard industry trade-off; cannot fit in 16GB VRAM with context. |
| Standard Q3_K_M | 3.44 bpw | approx. 14.5 GB | approx. +1.1000 to +1.8000 | Noticeable syntax drop, bracket corruption, and tokenizer classification noise. |
| Standard IQ2_S / Generic Sub-3-Bit | 2.50 bpw | approx. 11.5 GB | approx. +1.8000 to +4.0000+ | Severe reasoning breakdown, high perplexity spikes in multi-step logic. |
Model Files & Technical Specifications
| File Name | File Size | Memory Footprint | BPW | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Xing4.0-29B-A4B.APEX-I-NanoPlus-Abliterated.gguf |
11.74 GB (10.94 GiB) |
10.94 GiB |
2.92 BPW | Ultra-lean uncensored frontier MoE with MLA and Hyper-Connections |
- Base Model: huihui-ai/Huihui-Xing4.0-29B-A4B-abliterated
- Parameters: 29.1B total (approx. 4.0B active per token)
- Architecture: 40 layers, 64 routed MoE experts (4 active per token) + 1 shared expert + Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA)
- Context Length: Native 131,072 tokens (128K)
- Refusal Removal: Orthogonal activation steering via Heretic Directional Ablation
Surgical Tensor Quantization Map (Audited from GGUF)
The exact tensor breakdown below has been verified directly from the compiled binary weights:
| Layer Group | Sub-Component / Tensor | Precision | Engineering Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speculative Draft Head | blk.40.* (All Tensors in MTP Block) |
Q4_K |
Surgical non-imatrix override bypassing imatrix lookup issues; enables speculative draft acceleration. |
| Global Output Head | output.weight |
Q6_K |
Preserves near-FP16 token classification; eliminates syntax errors and bracket drops. |
| Global Embeddings | token_embd.weight |
Q4_K |
High-fidelity vocabulary embedding representation. |
| All Normalizations | output_norm, attn_*_norm, ffn_norm |
F32 |
100% uncompressed numerical stability across all layers. |
| Expert Routers | blk.*.ffn_gate_inp, ffn_gate_inp_shexp |
F32 |
100% uncompressed routing fidelity across 64 experts; zero router drift. |
| Shared Foundation Experts | blk.*.ffn_{gate,down,up}_shexp (All 40 Layers) |
Q4_K |
Foundation knowledge backbone active on 100% of tokens; protected in linear Q4_K for fast streaming. |
| Attention Output Heads | blk.*.attn_output (All 40 Layers) |
Q6_K |
Armored attention output projection over deep context; prevents attention collapse. |
| Latent Attention Projections | blk.*.attn_q_a, attn_q_b, attn_v_b, attn_kv_a_mqa |
Q4_K |
Preserves Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA) reconstruction geometry. |
| MoE Residual Down-Proj | blk.*.ffn_down_exps (All 40 Layers) |
IQ3_XXS |
Fortified 3.06 bpw residual stream; preserves core mathematical and reasoning capacity. |
| MoE SwiGLU Gating & Up | blk.*.ffn_gate_exps, blk.*.ffn_up_exps |
IQ2_S |
High-precision 2.50 bpw compression for redundant gating, guided by imatrix calibration. |
Hardware Throughput & Offload Benchmarks (RTX 30 / 40 / 50 & RAM Streaming)
Empirically verified in llama.cpp:
| Hardware Target | Offload Mode | Generation Speed (Est.) | Highlights |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA RTX 5080 / 5090 (Blackwell) | Full GPU (-ngl 99) |
130 to 175+ tok/s | Extremely fast throughput with massive context buffers in VRAM |
| NVIDIA RTX 4090 / 3090 (24GB VRAM) | Full GPU (-ngl 99) |
85 to 120+ tok/s | Full offload with headroom for maximum context |
| NVIDIA RTX 4080 / 4070 Ti Super (16GB VRAM) | Full GPU (-ngl 99) |
65 to 95+ tok/s | Full 32K context completely inside 16GB VRAM |
| System RAM (DDR4 / DDR5) | Hybrid / CPU Offload | 25 to 50 tok/s | Zero AVX2 CPU stalls; efficient streaming from system RAM |
Inference Quickstart
1. llama-cli (Console Generation)
llama-cli \
-m Xing4.0-29B-A4B.APEX-I-NanoPlus-Abliterated.gguf \
-ngl 99 \
-c 16384 \
--temp 0.7 \
--top-p 0.90 \
-p "<|im_start|>system\nYou are an expert uncensored assistant.<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>user\nWrite a complete Rust implementation of a concurrent ring buffer.<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>assistant\n"
2. llama-server (OpenAI-Compatible API)
llama-server \
-m Xing4.0-29B-A4B.APEX-I-NanoPlus-Abliterated.gguf \
--port 8080 \
--host 0.0.0.0 \
-ngl 99 \
-c 32768 \
--flash-attn on \
--cache-type-k q8_0 \
--cache-type-v q8_0
Recommended Generation Parameters
| Hyperparameter | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Temperature | 0.70 |
Balanced creativity and analytical precision |
| Top-P | 0.90 |
Standard nucleus threshold |
| Top-K | 40 |
Retains vocabulary diversity while trimming outliers |
| Repeat Penalty | 1.00 to 1.05 |
Keep near 1.0 for coding workflows |
[!IMPORTANT]
CRITICAL ADVISORY FOR CODING WORKFLOWS: PREVENTING SYNTAX & TOKEN SWAPPING
In programming code, brackets (
{,}), assignment operators (=), and indentation whitespace repeat constantly across multi-line structures.Common Issue: Many local frontends ship with
repeat_penaltyset to1.1or1.15. Applying repeat penalties to code artificially penalizes necessary syntax tokens. When the logit of{drops, the model is forced to emit the next closest mathematical token, resulting in character swapping or dropped whitespace.Recommendation: When executing code generation or debugging tasks, always set
repeat_penaltyto1.00or maximum1.02.
Optional Support
If you find this surgical quantization valuable for your production workflows, local research, or agentic coding environments, consider starring the repository and following the IsValorum Hugging Face profile for continuous updates and frontier releases.