donghyunli/Llama-2-70b-KronQ-W3A16-fake

TEXT GENERATIONConcurrent Unit Cost:4Model Size:69BQuant:FP8Context Size:4kPublished:Jun 22, 2026License:llama2Architecture:Transformer Open Weights Featherless Exclusive Cold

The donghyunli/Llama-2-70b-KronQ-W3A16-fake model is a 70 billion parameter Llama-2-hf derivative, featuring 3-bit weights quantized with KronQ and stored in fp16 format. This fake-quantized checkpoint is designed for perplexity and accuracy reproduction, maintaining the same size as bf16 models. It achieves a perplexity of 3.66 on WikiText-2 and an average zero-shot accuracy of 73.59% across various benchmarks. This model is primarily intended for research and evaluation of low-bit quantization techniques.

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Model Overview

This model, donghyunli/Llama-2-70b-KronQ-W3A16-fake, is a 70 billion parameter variant of the Llama-2-hf architecture. It utilizes KronQ for 3-bit weight quantization (W3A16), with these weights stored in fp16 format. This specific checkpoint is a "fake-quant" version, meaning it's primarily for reproducing perplexity and accuracy results, and is not a deployable low-bit model (it has the same size as a bf16 model).

Key Characteristics

  • Architecture: Llama-2-70b-hf base model.
  • Quantization: KronQ W3A16 (3-bit weights, 16-bit activations), per-channel asymmetric W3, weight-only, with --alpha 0.25, BiIP, act_order, and raw H_G.
  • Format: Fake-quant fp16 checkpoint, not a packed low-bit model for deployment.

Performance Metrics

  • Perplexity (WikiText-2, seqlen 2048): 3.66
  • Zero-shot Accuracy (lm-evaluation-harness):
    • PIQA: 82.26
    • ARC-E: 81.86
    • ARC-C: 58.28
    • HellaSwag: 82.45
    • WinoGrande: 78.53
    • BoolQ: 82.97
    • OBQA: 48.80
    • Average: 73.59

Usage and Licensing

This model loads as a standard fp16 model using transformers library, requiring no specific KronQ code for inference. It is a derivative of Llama-2-70b-hf and is subject to the Llama 2 license.