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PTQ1_0 blanket ternary

A ternary copy that destroyed the model. Still on disk, useful only for testing the check it led to. Quantised here, prism fork.

Size
0.8 GB
Status
On disk
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.

FileMiniCPM5-2B-PTQ1_0.gguf
FormatPTQ1_0 blanket ternary (prism fork), 809,108,576 B
Where frommade here 2026-09-17, llama.cpp-prism llama-quantize with imatrix
Statuson disk; destroyed weights

How it was made

  • Tool: llama.cpp-prism (llama-quantize offers 143 PTQ1_0: 1.75 bpw ternarization (group 128, Prism); Metal kernels kernel_mul_mv_ext_ptq1_0_f32_r1_* present). The fork's commit is not on record.
  • Input: the BF16 GGUF and the imatrix made from it, both in a scratch folder.
  • Command:
llama.cpp-prism/build/bin/llama-quantize --imatrix minicpm5-2b.imatrix \
minicpm5-2b-bf16.gguf models/minicpm5-2b-ptq1/MiniCPM5-2B-PTQ1_0.gguf PTQ1_0 8

Every tensor was ternarised; no --tensor-type overrides.

  • Date: 2026-09-17 11:53Z. Output: quant size 766.72 MiB (2.56 BPW); 809,108,576 B on disk (stat, 2026-10-23; ls showed 772M at 12:53 local). The finding's "1.75 bpw" is the format's nominal rate, not the file's.

How it was served

labeldates (UTC)binaryflagsprofilewhy / status
minicpm5-2b-ptq12026-09-17 11:55Z–12:16Zprism-fork llama-server--jinja --min-p 0 --repeat-penalty 1.15 -c 32768 -np 4 --cache-ram 1024 -ctk q4_0 -ctv q4_0 -fa on -ngl 999extractionthe 13-suite gauntlet vs Q8_0. Killed after toolcall (57 of 60 rows); results moved to results/_retired/. Not in the run log.
ptq1-gate-test2026-09-17 13:19Zprism-fork llama-server, -c 4096 -np 1 -ngl 99 --no-warmup—toolcall --limit 5end-to-end test that the coherence precondition refuses to run; nothing was written

Decisions

  • Built as the Metal-capable ternary path. Declared destroyed 12:16Z: "I reported 119 t/s without checking the output". The prior TQ2_0 is fast and lossless to pack, but ternary weights cannot be made post hoc ("naive post-training ternarisation destroys the model") was reproduced.
  • Alan, 12:15Z: "I think we also need to apply some Jev like benchmark with deterministic output". The assistant proposed a harness precondition; it was built and tested against this file by 13:20Z, then the finding was written.
  • Kept on disk: "file left on disk — not deleting without asking".

What went wrong

What happened to it

Made 2026-09-17 → gauntlet killed and retired → used as the coherence-gate fixture → on disk at models/minicpm5-2b-ptq1/ (Tier C leftover, a lab note). Recreate with the command above. Do not serve except to test the gate.