TiGa-RCE/Bonsai-27B-oQ4e-S32-Smoke
Bonsai 27B oQ4e S32 Calibration Smoke
Experimental calibration artifact. Not a quality release. Do not use this model to judge Bonsai quality or as a production checkpoint.
Experiment family and current status
This is one public checkpoint in an unfinished MLX/oMLX compatibility and quantization experiment:
- BF16 config-repaired archival baseline
- oQ2e S32 calibration smoke
- oQ4e S32 calibration smoke — this repository
The experiment remains incomplete until maintained MLX/MLX-LM/oMLX support can load and generate through the relevant Bonsai paths without the current local compatibility patches, explicit calibration proxies, or imatrix-boundary workarounds. The larger predeclared evaluations follow that runtime gate.
The Hub's displayed parameter count reflects packed quantized storage tensors. It does not describe a newly trained smaller model; the logical source architecture is Bonsai 27B.
This repository preserves a bounded oQe-enhanced 4-bit MLX artifact that loaded and generated normally on a 32 GB Apple Silicon host. Its purpose is reproducible pipeline evidence and archival storage, not a claim that it outperforms another Bonsai checkpoint.
What this proves
- An oQe-enhanced 4-bit MLX artifact was produced from the public, config-repaired BF16 conversion baseline.
- Structural and load checks passed.
- The 32-sample imatrix collection completed with 496 entries.
- The allocation uses an effective 4.70 bits per weight: embeddings at 8-bit and 22 sensitivity-selected modules at 5-bit.
- The artifact produced coherent reasoning in the bounded behavioral smoke.
- On fixed 10-question screens it scored HellaSwag 6/10 and ARC-Challenge 6/10.
What this does not prove
The sensitivity stage was intentionally minimal: 2 samples of 64 tokens. The 10-question screens are too small for a quality ranking. This artifact has not passed the predeclared 100-question evaluations or a quality-sized sensitivity pass, and it did not beat the smaller oQ2e smoke artifact on the tiny screen.
Do not present it as a production model, a quality release, or evidence that oQ4e is superior to ordinary Q4, oQ2e, Q1, or another quantization method.
Reproduction parameters
oq_imatrix_report.json, PROVENANCE.json, and the included IMATRIX_CACHE_S32.npz preserve the emitted artifact and calibration evidence. The NPZ contains aggregate activation statistics, not raw calibration prompts, and is not needed to run the model.
Bounded evaluation
The fixed screens used deterministic, thinking-disabled decoding and the same letter parser as the earlier oQ2e smoke:
The raw records are retained under docs/. These are pipeline screens, not statistically useful benchmark claims.
Provenance
- Derived baseline: TiGa-RCE/Bonsai-27B-MLX-BF16-Config-Repaired
- Original source: prism-ml/Bonsai-27B-gguf
- Source revision used for conversion:
0cf7e3d21581b169b4df1de8bf01316000e2fbb7 - Original source file:
Bonsai-27B-F16.gguf - Original source file SHA-256:
d4a381a6d07131c34af888607bdbda49fc885c97673a0d22aa3e0f0284bba566 - Output hashes:
MODEL_SHA256SUMS.txt
The project retains the upstream Apache-2.0 LICENSE.txt and NOTICE.txt.
Runtime
The artifact uses heterogeneous MLX quantization metadata. It was validated with the experimental oMLX/oQe path used to create it. Compatibility with stock MLX-LM or other runtimes is not claimed.
Attribution
Created by Technologies Brewster Jennings du Canada for the Bonsai MLX quantization experiment. Created using Bonsai by Prism ML, derived from Qwen3.6-27B.
