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base_model: tiiuae/Falcon3-7B-Instruct
language:
  - en
  - fr
  - es
  - pt
library_name: transformers
license: other
license_link: https://falconllm.tii.ae/falcon-terms-and-conditions.html
license_name: falcon-llm-license
quantized_by: mradermacher
tags:
  - falcon3

About

static quants of https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/Falcon3-7B-Instruct

weighted/imatrix quants are available at https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Falcon3-7B-Instruct-i1-GGUF

Usage

If you are unsure how to use GGUF files, refer to one of TheBloke's READMEs for more details, including on how to concatenate multi-part files.

Provided Quants

(sorted by size, not necessarily quality. IQ-quants are often preferable over similar sized non-IQ quants)

Link Type Size/GB Notes
GGUF Q2_K 3.0
GGUF Q3_K_S 3.5
GGUF Q3_K_M 3.8 lower quality
GGUF Q3_K_L 4.1
GGUF IQ4_XS 4.2
GGUF Q4_K_S 4.4 fast, recommended
GGUF Q4_K_M 4.7 fast, recommended
GGUF Q5_K_S 5.3
GGUF Q5_K_M 5.4
GGUF Q6_K 6.2 very good quality
GGUF Q8_0 8.0 fast, best quality
GGUF f16 15.0 16 bpw, overkill

Here is a handy graph by ikawrakow comparing some lower-quality quant types (lower is better):

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And here are Artefact2's thoughts on the matter: https://gist.github.com/Artefact2/b5f810600771265fc1e39442288e8ec9

FAQ / Model Request

See https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/model_requests for some answers to questions you might have and/or if you want some other model quantized.

Thanks

I thank my company, nethype GmbH, for letting me use its servers and providing upgrades to my workstation to enable this work in my free time.