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bartowski Gemma 2B GGUF second-order 8K ctx
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Abliteration classifier · v1.0.0
M8
Primary method

Repackaging (quantization)

Applied on top of direct removal inherited from the base model.
Confidence
HIGH
Inherited from base model
Why this label 3 signals
Producer identity confirmed by naming conventions, tags or the model card. This label is very unlikely to change.
  • author=bartowski (M8 quantization producer)
  • is_gguf=1
  • base_model='IlyaGusev/gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated' looks abliterated -> assume M1
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Downloads · lifetime
393K
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Likes
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Model age
2.2y ago
created 2024-08-01
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Benchmarks

Benchmark Score Source
BBH average 0.38292904397457517 OpenLLM-v2
IFEval instruct 0.5911270983213429 OpenLLM-v2
IFEval-Prompt 0.47504621072088726 OpenLLM-v2
MATH lvl 5 0.0015105740181268882 OpenLLM-v2
MMLU-Pro 0.25382313829787234 OpenLLM-v2
Entertainment 1.2 UGI
Hazardous 1.8 UGI
Natural Intelligence 11.25 UGI
Political lean -27.7% UGI
Sensitive-Info 11.98 UGI
SocPol 0.8 UGI
UGI 29.65 UGI
Willingness (10) 6.5 UGI
W10-Adherence 7 UGI
W10-Direct 6 UGI
Writing 24.68 UGI

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Metadata

License
gemma
Languages
en
Quantizations
IQ3 IQ4 Q2_K Q3_K Q4_K Q5_K Q6_K Q8_0
Tags
gguf text-generation en base_model:IlyaGusev/gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated base_model:quantized:IlyaGusev/gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated license:gemma endpoints_compatible region:us conversational

Related

Total size
33.8 GB
Files
18
Quantizations
9
Registered
2026-08-22 13:56
Last updated on HF
2024-08-05 19:14

Files by quantization

Q8_0 1 file 2.59 GB
gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-Q8_0.gguf 2.59 GB e2c23edd download
Q6_K 2 files 4.14 GB
gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-Q6_K_L.gguf 2.14 GB 5e566031 download
gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-Q6_K.gguf 2.00 GB a595e7e9 download
Q5_K 3 files 5.47 GB
gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-Q5_K_L.gguf 1.92 GB 12b28dd9 download
gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-Q5_K_M.gguf 1.79 GB 90d6dab7 download
gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-Q5_K_S.gguf 1.75 GB ea67911c download
Q4_K 3 files 4.84 GB
gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-Q4_K_L.gguf 1.72 GB b2aca8e2 download
gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-Q4_K_M.gguf 1.59 GB 5f0264dd download
gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-Q4_K_S.gguf 1.53 GB 0ec713a2 download
Q3_K 2 files 3.02 GB
gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-Q3_K_XL.gguf 1.58 GB e03ca9c9 download
gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-Q3_K_L.gguf 1.44 GB a9b28da9 download
IQ4 1 file 1.46 GB
gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-IQ4_XS.gguf 1.46 GB 5350d146 download
IQ3 1 file 1.30 GB
gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-IQ3_M.gguf 1.30 GB b0e7ff0c download
Q2_K 1 file 1.28 GB
gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-Q2_K_L.gguf 1.28 GB f8d322ad download
Auxiliary files 4 files 9.75 GB
gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-f32.gguf 9.74 GB 1f23d00f download
gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated.imatrix 2.27 MB aa537ae1 download
README.md 7.68 KB 927a1726 download
.gitattributes 2.63 KB 731d94ce download

README current version from Hugging Face


base_model: IlyaGusev/gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated
language:

  • en
    license: gemma
    pipeline_tag: text-generation
    quantized_by: bartowski

Llamacpp imatrix Quantizations of gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated

Using llama.cpp release b3496 for quantization.

Original model: https://huggingface.co/IlyaGusev/gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated

All quants made using imatrix option with dataset from here

Run them in LM Studio

Prompt format

<bos><start_of_turn>user
{prompt}<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>model
<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>model

Note that this model does not support a System prompt.

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

Filename Quant type File Size Split Description
gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-f32.gguf f32 10.46GB false Full F32 weights.
gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-Q8_0.gguf Q8_0 2.78GB false Extremely high quality, generally unneeded but max available quant.
gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-Q6_K_L.gguf Q6_K_L 2.29GB false Uses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Very high quality, near perfect, recommended.
gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-Q6_K.gguf Q6_K 2.15GB false Very high quality, near perfect, recommended.
gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-Q5_K_L.gguf Q5_K_L 2.07GB false Uses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. High quality, recommended.
gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-Q5_K_M.gguf Q5_K_M 1.92GB false High quality, recommended.
gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-Q5_K_S.gguf Q5_K_S 1.88GB false High quality, recommended.
gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-Q4_K_L.gguf Q4_K_L 1.85GB false Uses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Good quality, recommended.
gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-Q4_K_M.gguf Q4_K_M 1.71GB false Good quality, default size for must use cases, recommended.
gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-Q3_K_XL.gguf Q3_K_XL 1.69GB false Uses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Lower quality but usable, good for low RAM availability.
gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-Q4_K_S.gguf Q4_K_S 1.64GB false Slightly lower quality with more space savings, recommended.
gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-IQ4_XS.gguf IQ4_XS 1.57GB false Decent quality, smaller than Q4_K_S with similar performance, recommended.
gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-Q3_K_L.gguf Q3_K_L 1.55GB false Lower quality but usable, good for low RAM availability.
gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-IQ3_M.gguf IQ3_M 1.39GB false Medium-low quality, new method with decent performance comparable to Q3_K_M.
gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-Q2_K_L.gguf Q2_K_L 1.37GB false Uses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Very low quality but surprisingly usable.

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.

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!

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

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/gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-GGUF --include "gemma-2-2b-it-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/gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-GGUF --include "gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-Q8_0/*" --local-dir ./

You can either specify a new local-dir (gemma-2-2b-it-abliterated-Q8_0) or download them all in place (./)

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 'QX_K_X', like Q5_K_M.

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 IQX_X, like IQ3_M. 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.

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

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