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APEX (Adaptive Precision for EXpert Models) quantizations of gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-heretic — an abliterated (uncensored) version of Gemma 4, created with the Heretic tool (v1.2.0) using Arbitrary-Rank Ablation (ARA) on layers 10-30 to reduce refusals while preserving capabilities (KL divergence 0.0499 from original). Brought to you by the LocalAI team | APEX Project | Technical Report
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| File | Type | Quantization | Size | Link |
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| gemma-4-26B-A4B-heretic-APEX-Balanced.gguf | GGUF | — | 18.17 GB | Download |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-heretic-APEX-Compact.gguf | GGUF | — | 14.43 GB | Download |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-heretic-APEX-I-Balanced.gguf | GGUF | — | 18.17 GB | Download |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-heretic-APEX-I-Compact.gguf | GGUF | — | 14.43 GB | Download |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-heretic-APEX-I-Mini.gguf | GGUF | — | 12.09 GB | Download |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-heretic-APEX-I-Quality.gguf | GGUF | — | 19.16 GB | Download |
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-heretic-APEX-Quality.gguf | GGUF | — | 19.16 GB | Download |
| mmproj.gguf | GGUF | — | 1.11 GB | Download |
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"readme_markdown": "---\nlicense: gemma\nbase_model: coder3101/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-heretic\ntags:\n - gguf\n - quantized\n - apex\n - moe\n - mixture-of-experts\n - gemma4\n - vlm\n - vision\n---\n\n# Gemma 4 26B-A4B Heretic (Abliterated) APEX GGUF\n\n**APEX (Adaptive Precision for EXpert Models)** quantizations of [gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-heretic](https://huggingface.co/coder3101/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-heretic) — an **abliterated (uncensored)** version of Gemma 4, created with the [Heretic](https://github.com/coder3101/heretic) tool (v1.2.0) using Arbitrary-Rank Ablation (ARA) on layers 10-30 to reduce refusals while preserving capabilities (KL divergence 0.0499 from original).\n\n**Brought to you by the [LocalAI](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI) team** | [APEX Project](https://github.com/mudler/apex-quant) | [Technical Report](https://github.com/mudler/apex-quant/blob/main/paper/APEX_Technical_Report.pdf)\n\n## Benchmark Results\n\nBenchmarks coming soon. For reference APEX benchmarks on the Qwen3.5-35B-A3B architecture, see [mudler/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-APEX-GGUF](https://huggingface.co/mudler/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-APEX-GGUF).\n\n## Available Files\n\n| File | Profile | Size | Best For |\n|------|---------|------|----------|\n| gemma-4-26B-A4B-heretic-APEX-I-Balanced.gguf | I-Balanced | ~19 GB | Best overall quality/size ratio |\n| gemma-4-26B-A4B-heretic-APEX-I-Quality.gguf | I-Quality | ~20 GB | Highest quality with imatrix |\n| gemma-4-26B-A4B-heretic-APEX-Quality.gguf | Quality | ~20 GB | Highest quality standard |\n| gemma-4-26B-A4B-heretic-APEX-Balanced.gguf | Balanced | ~19 GB | General purpose |\n| gemma-4-26B-A4B-heretic-APEX-I-Compact.gguf | I-Compact | ~15 GB | Consumer GPUs, best quality/size |\n| gemma-4-26B-A4B-heretic-APEX-Compact.gguf | Compact | ~15 GB | Consumer GPUs |\n| gemma-4-26B-A4B-heretic-APEX-I-Mini.gguf | I-Mini | ~13 GB | Smallest viable, fastest inference |\n| mmproj.gguf | Vision projector | ~1.2 GB | Required for image understanding |\n\n## What is APEX?\n\nAPEX is a quantization strategy for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models. It classifies tensors by role (routed expert, shared expert, attention) and applies a layer-wise precision gradient -- edge layers get higher precision, middle layers get more aggressive compression. I-variants use diverse imatrix calibration (chat, code, reasoning, tool-calling, agentic traces, Wikipedia).\n\nSee the [APEX project](https://github.com/mudler/apex-quant) for full details, technical report, and scripts.\n\n## Architecture\n\n- **Model**: gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-heretic (same architecture as gemma-4-26B-A4B-it)\n- **Layers**: 30\n- **Experts**: 128 routed (8 active per token)\n- **Total Parameters**: 26B\n- **Active Parameters**: ~4B per token\n- **Vision**: Built-in vision encoder (mmproj included)\n- **APEX Config**: 5+5 symmetric edge gradient across 30 layers\n- **Calibration**: v1.3 diverse dataset\n\n## Run with LocalAI\n\n```bash\nlocal-ai run mudler/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-heretic-APEX-GGUF@gemma-4-26B-A4B-heretic-APEX-I-Balanced.gguf\n```\n\n## Credits\n\nAPEX is brought to you by the [LocalAI](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI) team. Developed through human-driven, AI-assisted research. Built on [llama.cpp](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp).\n",
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