r/LocalLLaMA • u/po_stulate • 19h ago

Discussion Deceptive model quantization from AtomicChat?

I kept seeing guys in this sub saying how AtomicChat's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next quant is so good, fits in their machine when unsloth's can't, runs faster than other quants etc, so I went check out what's happening there.

First thing I noticed was that AtomicChat's Q4_K_M quant is suspiciously small when the ngram table is removed (only ~56GB), it seems like most of the tensors in this quant are IQ2_S instead of the usual Q4_K, Q5_K and Q6_K that you usually find in Q4_K_M quants, the GGUF filetype metadata also says IQ2_S instead of Q4_K_M. In their model card, their Q4_K_M also has suspiciously high KLD (0.084).

It seems pretty obvious to me that they're pretending a IQ2_S quant as a Q4_K_M, but at the same time I'm genuinely not sure because it can't be only me who found this right? How can nobody be pointing this out? Am I missing something or what may they be doing?

Their HF repo ID: AtomicChat/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GGUF

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u/niacolhealth 12h ago

nothing surprising about weights mostly at iq2_s running ~10% faster than a real q3, or about the size matching a q3 while the loader prints iq2: all three readouts agree with each other, only the filename doesn't. so the accusation and the praise are the same fact, and the only argument left is what to call the file.