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GGUF Q4_K_M

A GGUF that llama.cpp couldn't load. Downloaded twice, never run, deleted on 11 September. Unsloth.

Size
16.8 GB
Status
Deleted 11 Sep 2026
Scored runs
0
ResultsNever scored

This file never completed a scored run. Its record below says why.

The recordHow it was made · how it was served · what went wrong · what happened to it

Rebuilt from the lab's records by Claude, an AI model. The results above come straight from the automated runs. How these pages are made.

Filemodels/diffusiongemma-26b/diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-it-Q4_K_M.gguf
FormatGGUF Q4_K_M, 16,806,810,208 B (local ls)
Where fromdownloaded from unsloth/diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-it-GGUF: first attempt 2026-09-10 23:50Z, abandoned 2026-09-11 00:10Z; second, complete download 07:59Z–08:25Z
Statusdeleted 2026-09-11 15:14Z, unscored
Hugging Facehttps://huggingface.co/unsloth/diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-it-GGUF

Where it came from

  • Repo / file: unsloth/diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-it-GGUF, diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-it-Q4_K_M.gguf (HF listing 15.7 GiB); revision not pinned.
  • Command: a one-off script, a 6-range parallel downloader, run with uv's CPython 3.12. Its source text is not on record.
  • Attempts: started 2026-09-10 23:50Z behind the REAP safetensors download (Alan: "Can you pause reap and start diffusion?"); stopped 23:53Z at 5.5 of 15.7 GB when Alan said "Stop then" to an unrelated conversion; restarted 23:58Z, which re-downloaded from scratch because the script only checked for the finished file; killed and the partial removed 2026-09-11 00:10Z on the switch to MLX. Re-started 07:59Z as "the third arm" and complete by 08:25Z.
  • Size: 16,806,810,208 B (ls -la). sha256 not on record.

How it was served

labeldates (UTC)binary and versionctx / -np / KV / -fa / --jinja / reasoningharness profilewhy this label exists
none (no run-log label)never servednone; no binary loaded itnot applicablenonethe llama.cpp arm of the diffusion experiment never reached a server

No run-log label exists. It was never loaded: at 10:14Z the header read general.architecture = diffusion-gemma, and llama.cpp/src/llama-arch.cpp (then the fc/diffusion-confidence build, b10893 base) knew only dream, llada, llada-moe. The assistant: "DiffusionGemma GGUF can't run here at all"; it "needs PR #24427 or the unsloth fork". No seat.

Decisions

  • Chosen first (23:44Z) for runtime comparability with the board.
  • Abandoned (00:09Z) on unsloth #6336, a Metal garbled-output report for this exact file on an M5 Pro / llama.cpp b9632.
  • Re-fetched (07:59Z) after issue #24529 showed coherent Metal output on an M3 Max.
  • Declared unloadable (10:14Z) and listed as Tier 1, "no judgement needed", at the 13:50Z disk triage.
  • Deleted 2026-09-11 15:14Z: rm 16G diffusiongemma-26b -- arch diffusion-gemma, no engine here loads it, under Alan's "kill what you can disk wise, keep any q4_0 and drafters...".

What went wrong

  • Two wasted downloads (~5.5 GB, then a from-scratch restart), from a resume check that only looked for the finished file.
  • A bug report treated as decisive. #6336 was a different chip and build; the file later proved unloadable for a different reason, so the bug never applied here.
  • No RESTORE entry (RESTORE-deleted-20260911.sh has none; 2026-10-23).

What happened to it

Download attempted 2026-09-10 23:50Z → abandoned 2026-09-11 00:10Z → re-downloaded 07:59Z–08:25Z → found unloadable 10:14Z → deleted 15:14Z, unscored, no RESTORE entry → re-downloadable from unsloth/diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-it-GGUF (needs a llama.cpp build with diffusion-gemma support to be of any use).