---

license: apache-2.0

base_model: mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-2512

base_model_relation: quantized

library_name: gguf

pipeline_tag: text-generation

tags:

• gguf
• llama.cpp
• dashq
• quantized

---

!DASH-Q

Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-2512 - DASH-Q 2-bit GGUF

llama.cpp GGUF files of mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-2512 quantized with

DASH-Q, at several 2-bit-class sizes. Every file uses only standard

llama.cpp tensor types (no tensor above 4 bits) and loads in any recent llama.cpp build.

| File | Type | Size | Bits / weight |

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

| Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-2512-DASHQ-IQ2_XXS.gguf | IQ2_XXS | 2.64 GB | 2.48 |

| Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-2512-DASHQ-IQ2_XS.gguf | IQ2_XS | 2.99 GB | 2.81 |

| Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-2512-DASHQ-IQ2_M.gguf | IQ2_M | 3.17 GB | 2.97 |

| Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-2512-DASHQ-Q2_K_XL.gguf | Q2_K_XL | 3.44 GB | 3.23 |

Text only: the vision tower is not included.

Perplexity (lower is better)

| Type | Model | Size | WikiText-2 | C4 |

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

| IQ2_XXS | llama.cpp IQ2_XXS (imatrix) | 2.53 GB | 9.89 | 16.96 |

| IQ2_XXS | unsloth UD-IQ2_XXS | 2.63 GB | 9.97 | 16.55 |

| IQ2_XXS | DASH-Q IQ2_XXS | 2.64 GB | 9.36 | 16.18 |

| IQ2_XS | llama.cpp IQ2_XS (imatrix) | 2.75 GB | 8.79 | 15.06 |

| IQ2_XS | DASH-Q IQ2_XS | 2.99 GB | 8.15 | 14.12 |

| IQ2_M | llama.cpp IQ2_M (imatrix) | 3.11 GB | 7.73 | 13.37 |

| IQ2_M | unsloth UD-IQ2_M | 3.16 GB | 7.74 | 13.28 |

| IQ2_M | DASH-Q IQ2_M | 3.17 GB | 7.59 | 13.18 |

| Q2_K_XL | llama.cpp Q2_K (imatrix) | 3.35 GB | 7.81 | 13.45 |

| Q2_K_XL | unsloth UD-Q2_K_XL | 3.57 GB | 7.62 | 13.12 |

| Q2_K_XL | DASH-Q Q2_K_XL | 3.44 GB | 7.38 | 12.82 |

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

Usage

llama-cli -m Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-2512-DASHQ-Q2_K_XL.gguf -ngl 99 -c 8192

License

Inherits the license of the base model (mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-2512).