el4/Xenon-26B-A4B-OPAL-GGUF overview

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base_model: el4/Xenon-26B-A4B

base_model_relation: quantized

tags:

- gguf

- llama.cpp

- imatrix

- moe

- reasoning

- qwen3

- opal

pipeline_tag: text-generation

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Note: this repo also contains a tool call grammar file (tool_call.gbnf), thats meant to be loaded in llama.cpp, IT IS REQUIRED FOR AGENTIC TASKS

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<h1 style="margin: 0; font-size: 28px; font-weight: 900; display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 12px; color: #ecfeff; border: none;"><a href="https://huggingface.co/spaces/el4/OPAL" display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 12px;">💎 OPAL</a></h1>

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<p style="margin: 10px 0 0 0; font-size: 14px; color: #a5f3fc; font-weight: 600;">This repo contains OPAL Quants of el4/Xenon-26B-A4B</p>

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<th style="padding: 10px; border-bottom: 2px solid #14b8a6; text-align: left; color: #5eead4; font-weight: 900;">Target Size</th>

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<tr><td style="padding: 10px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(20, 184, 166, 0.2); font-weight: 800; color: #e2e8f0;">💎 <code style="color:#67e8f9;">quality</code></td><td style="padding: 10px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(20, 184, 166, 0.2); color: #94a3b8;">~23 GB</td><td style="padding: 10px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(20, 184, 166, 0.2); color: #94a3b8;">IQ4_XS</td></tr>

<tr style="background: rgba(12, 74, 110, 0.2);"><td style="padding: 10px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(20, 184, 166, 0.2); font-weight: 800; color: #e2e8f0;">⚖️ <code style="color:#67e8f9;">balanced</code></td><td style="padding: 10px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(20, 184, 166, 0.2); color: #94a3b8;">~25 GB</td><td style="padding: 10px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(20, 184, 166, 0.2); color: #94a3b8;">Q5_K</td></tr>

<tr><td style="padding: 10px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(20, 184, 166, 0.2); font-weight: 800; color: #e2e8f0;">📦 <code style="color:#67e8f9;">compact</code></td><td style="padding: 10px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(20, 184, 166, 0.2); color: #94a3b8;">~18 GB</td><td style="padding: 10px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(20, 184, 166, 0.2); color: #94a3b8;">Q3_K</td></tr>

<tr style="background: rgba(12, 74, 110, 0.2);"><td style="padding: 10px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(20, 184, 166, 0.2); font-weight: 800; color: #e2e8f0;">🚀 <code style="color:#67e8f9;">mini</code></td><td style="padding: 10px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(20, 184, 166, 0.2); color: #94a3b8;">~14 GB</td><td style="padding: 10px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(20, 184, 166, 0.2); color: #94a3b8;">IQ2_S</td></tr>

<tr><td style="padding: 10px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(20, 184, 166, 0.2); font-weight: 800; color: #e2e8f0;">🔬 <code style="color:#67e8f9;">micro</code></td><td style="padding: 10px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(20, 184, 166, 0.2); color: #94a3b8;">~11 GB</td><td style="padding: 10px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(20, 184, 166, 0.2); color: #94a3b8;">IQ1_M</td></tr>

<tr style="background: rgba(12, 74, 110, 0.2);"><td style="padding: 10px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(20, 184, 166, 0.2); font-weight: 800; color: #e2e8f0;">🤏 <code style="color:#67e8f9;">nano</code></td><td style="padding: 10px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(20, 184, 166, 0.2); color: #94a3b8;">~12 GB</td><td style="padding: 10px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(20, 184, 166, 0.2); color: #94a3b8;">IQ2_XXS</td></tr>

<tr><td style="padding: 10px; font-weight: 800; color: #e2e8f0;">🛡️ <code style="color:#67e8f9;">exp-minimalist</code></td><td style="padding: 10px; color: #94a3b8;">~16 GB</td><td style="padding: 10px; color: #94a3b8;">IQ2_XXS (Protected Edges)</td></tr>

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<h3 style="margin: 0; color: #ecfeff; border: none; font-size: 19px; font-weight: 900;">📚 Credits</h3>

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<p style="margin: 0 0 12px 0;">👉 <b style="color: #fff;">APEX Quantization Method</b><br>Ettore Di Giacinto & Richard Palethorpe (LocalAI Team). OPAL adapts the layer-wise precision gradients and MoE-aware tensor classification outlined in the APEX technical paper.</p>

<p style="margin: 0 0 12px 0;">👉 <b style="color: #fff;">Bartowski and Lamim</b><br>For the excellent semantic imatrix calibration dataset that powers OPAL's activation scaling.</p>

<p style="margin: 0 0 12px 0;">👉 <b style="color: #fff;">llama.cpp</b><br>Georgi Gerganov and contributors for the foundational inference and quantization engine.</p>

<p style="margin: 0 0 12px 0;">👉 <b style="color: #fff;">HuggingFace Accelerate</b><br>For the <code style="color:#a5f3fc;">init_empty_weights()</code> context manager that makes the 0-RAM "Ghost Model" possible.</p>

<p style="margin: 0;">👉 <b style="color: #fff;">Jackrong</b><br>For the sexy markdown readme inspo.</p>

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