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license: mit

base_model: deepreinforce-ai/Ornith-1.0-35B

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- gguf

- quantized

- apex

- moe

- mixture-of-experts

- qwen3

- vlm

- vision

- agentic

- coding

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Ornith-1.0-35B — APEX GGUF

APEX (Adaptive Precision for EXpert Models) quantizations of deepreinforce-ai/Ornith-1.0-35B — the lightweight, single-GPU member of the Ornith-1.0 self-improving family of open-source agentic-coding models (Qwen3.5 MoE base).

Brought to you by the LocalAI team | APEX Project | Technical Report

Available Files

| File | Profile | Best For |

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

| Ornith-1.0-35B-APEX-I-Balanced.gguf | I-Balanced | Best overall — imatrix-enhanced, lowest worst-case divergence |

| Ornith-1.0-35B-APEX-I-Quality.gguf | I-Quality | Highest quality with imatrix |

| Ornith-1.0-35B-APEX-Quality.gguf | Quality | Highest quality (no imatrix) |

| Ornith-1.0-35B-APEX-Balanced.gguf | Balanced | General purpose |

| Ornith-1.0-35B-APEX-I-Compact.gguf | I-Compact | Consumer GPUs, imatrix-enhanced |

| Ornith-1.0-35B-APEX-Compact.gguf | Compact | Consumer GPUs |

| Ornith-1.0-35B-APEX-I-Mini.gguf | I-Mini | Smallest viable, fastest inference |

| mmproj.gguf | Vision projector | Required for image understanding |

What is APEX?

APEX 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 (first/last 5) get higher precision, middle layers get more aggressive compression. I-variants use diverse imatrix calibration (chat, code, reasoning, tool-calling, agentic traces, Wikipedia).

The key insight: in MoE models, expert FFN tensors make up the bulk of model weight but only ~8/256 experts activate per token. APEX compresses middle-layer experts more aggressively while preserving edge layers and keeping attention, SSM/Mamba, and shared-expert tensors at higher precision.

See the APEX project for full details, technical report, and scripts.

Architecture

• Model: Ornith-1.0-35B (Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration, Qwen3.5 MoE base)
• Layers: 40
• Experts: 256 routed + 1 shared (8 active per token)
• Total Parameters: ~35B
• Active Parameters: ~3B per token
• Attention: Hybrid (full attention every 4th layer, linear otherwise)
• Vision: Built-in vision encoder (mmproj included)
• APEX Config: 5+5 symmetric edge gradient across 40 layers
• Calibration: v1.3 diverse dataset (chat, code, reasoning, multilingual, tool-calling, agentic traces, Wikipedia)

Run with LocalAI

local-ai run mudler/Ornith-1.0-35B-APEX-GGUF@Ornith-1.0-35B-APEX-I-Balanced.gguf

Credits

APEX is brought to you by the LocalAI team. Developed through human-driven, AI-assisted research. Built on llama.cpp. Base model by DeepReinforce AI.