---

license: llama3.1

base_model: meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct

base_model_relation: quantized

library_name: gguf

pipeline_tag: text-generation

tags:

• gguf
• llama.cpp
• dashq
• quantized

---

!DASH-Q

Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct - DASH-Q 2-bit GGUF

A llama.cpp GGUF of meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct quantized with

DASH-Q. It is a standard Q2_K-class mixed-precision file

(Q2_K / Q3_K / Q4_K tensors, about 3 bits per weight) and loads in any recent llama.cpp build.

| File | Size |

| --- | --- |

| Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-DASHQ-Q2_K_XL.gguf | 3.28 GB |

Perplexity (lower is better)

| Model | Size | WikiText-2 | C4 |

| --- | --- | --- | --- |

| F16 | 16.1 GB | 6.40 | 10.90 |

| llama.cpp Q2_K (imatrix) | 3.18 GB | 8.52 | 14.68 |

| unsloth UD-Q2_K_XL | 3.39 GB | 7.89 | 13.55 |

| DASH-Q (this file) | 3.28 GB | 7.51 | 13.20 |

llama-perplexity, context 2048; WikiText-2 test, C4 validation (256 x 2048 tokens).

Zero-shot accuracy (lm-eval-harness, 0-shot)

| arc_easy | arc_challenge | piqa | hellaswag | winogrande | openbookqa | commonsense_qa | truthfulqa_mc2 | lambada_openai | avg |

| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |

| 77.3 | 50.2 | 79.6 | 75.6 | 72.5 | 43.4 | 72.8 | 49.4 | 72.5 | 65.92 |

Usage

llama-cli -m Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-DASHQ-Q2_K_XL.gguf -ngl 99 -c 8192

License

Inherits the license of the base model (meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct).