Instructions to use Archsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

How to use Archsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF with llama.cpp:

Install (macOS, Linux)

curl -LsSf https://llama.app/install.sh | sh
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
llama serve -hf Archsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q6_K
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
llama cli -hf Archsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q6_K

Install from WinGet (Windows)

winget install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
llama serve -hf Archsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q6_K
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
llama cli -hf Archsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q6_K

Use pre-built binary

# Download pre-built binary from:
# https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/releases
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
./llama-server -hf Archsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q6_K
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
./llama-cli -hf Archsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q6_K

Build from source code

git clone https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp.git
cd llama.cpp
cmake -B build
cmake --build build -j --target llama-server llama-cli
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
./build/bin/llama-server -hf Archsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q6_K
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
./build/bin/llama-cli -hf Archsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q6_K

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/Archsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q6_K

LM Studio
Jan

vLLM

How to use Archsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "Archsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "Archsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/Archsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q6_K

Ollama
How to use Archsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF with Ollama:
```
ollama run hf.co/Archsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q6_K
```
Unsloth Desktop

How to use Archsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF with Pi:

Start the llama.cpp server

# Install llama.cpp:
brew install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server:
llama serve -hf Archsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q6_K

Configure the model in Pi

# Install Pi:
npm install -g @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent
# Add to ~/.pi/agent/models.json:
{
  "providers": {
    "llama-cpp": {
      "baseUrl": "http://localhost:8080/v1",
      "api": "openai-completions",
      "apiKey": "none",
      "models": [
        {
          "id": "Archsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q6_K"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Run Pi

# Start Pi in your project directory:
pi

Docker Model Runner
How to use Archsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/Archsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q6_K
```

Lemonade

How to use Archsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF with Lemonade:

Pull the model

# Download Lemonade from https://lemonade-server.ai/
lemonade pull Archsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q6_K

Run and chat with the model

lemonade run user.Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF-Q6_K

List all available models

lemonade list

Hermes Agent

How to use Archsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF with Hermes Agent:

Start the llama.cpp server

# Install llama.cpp:
brew install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server:
llama serve -hf Archsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q6_K

Configure Hermes

# Install Hermes:
curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash
hermes setup
# Point Hermes at the local server:
hermes config set model.provider custom
hermes config set model.base_url http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1
hermes config set model.default Archsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q6_K

Run Hermes

hermes

Atomic Chat

OpenClaw

How to use Archsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF with OpenClaw:

Start the llama.cpp server

# Install llama.cpp:
brew install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server:
llama serve -hf Archsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q6_K

Configure OpenClaw

# Install OpenClaw:
npm install -g openclaw@latest
# Register the local server and set it as the default model:
openclaw onboard --non-interactive --mode local \
  --auth-choice custom-api-key \
  --custom-base-url http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1 \
  --custom-model-id "Archsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q6_K" \
  --custom-provider-id llama-cpp \
  --custom-compatibility openai \
  --custom-text-input \
  --accept-risk \
  --skip-health

Run OpenClaw

openclaw agent --local --agent main --message "Hello from Hugging Face"

ARCHSLOTH — the summit of quantization

Most quantized weights ship with an adjective. Ours ship with a table.

Head to head with unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF, same Q6_K rung — KL divergence from bf16, lower is better:
Korean −36.9 % · English −15.0 %
_{Two axes measured, two ahead. What we did not win is further down, with its number.}

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▶ Archsloth MODELs — every build in the ARCHsloth Q4 grade Qwen3-4B · Qwen3.5-9B · Qwen3.8-27B

Qwen3.8-27B · ARCHsloth Q6

Same rung. Same tensor types. Only the rounding differs.

Which file do I want?

File	Size	What it is
`Qwen3.8-27B-AS-Q6_K.gguf` ⭐	22.43 GB	The weights. This is the model.
`mmproj-F32.gguf`	1.84 GB	The vision tower. Only needed if you want the model to see images.

Qwen3.8-27B is a vision-language model. Text-only chat needs the first file alone; pass --mmproj mmproj-F32.gguf to llama-server to turn the eyes on. The vision tower is not quantized — it is carried at full precision, exactly as the base model shipped it.

There is no Q4 file in this repository. Why not.

`[measured]` Q6_K — the same rung, both sides

KL divergence from the bf16 original. Lower is better. llama-perplexity --kl-divergence, ctx 512, 60 chunks, held-out Korean and English text that is not in the calibration set.

KL divergence, ARCHsloth against unsloth, Korean and English

	bytes	Korean	English
ARCHsloth `Q6_K`	22,430,999,840	0.001385	0.001254
unsloth `UD-Q6_K`	21,983,677,344	0.002195	0.001476
unsloth `UD-Q6_K_M`	23,088,409,504	0.001632	0.001137

Against	Korean	English
unsloth `UD-Q6_K` — same rung	−36.9 %	−15.0 %
unsloth `UD-Q6_K_M` — 2.9 % larger than ours	−15.1 %	+10.3 %

Same-top-p moves the same direction as the divergence on every row (98.222 % vs 97.693 % on Korean). Full statistics: EVAL.md. Raw per-run logs: eval/logs/.

Quickstart

# text only
llama-cli -m Qwen3.8-27B-AS-Q6_K.gguf -p "안녕하세요" -ngl 99

# OpenAI-compatible server, with vision
llama-server -m Qwen3.8-27B-AS-Q6_K.gguf --mmproj mmproj-F32.gguf \
  --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8080 --jinja

A 27B is a dense model: every token reads the whole file. Plan for the weights plus the KV cache, and the cache is what decides whether a long-context session fits.

What is actually different

--scheme GGUF:Q6_K       optimize the rounding for the quantizer that is used at export
--enable_alg_ext         sign-gradient rounding search (SignRoundV2, arXiv:2512.04746)
--dataset cal_archsloth.jsonl
--iters 200  --nsamples 128

Nothing else. Bit widths and tensor types are llama.cpp's standard Q6_K. Nothing below 4 bits anywhere.

The calibration set — it ships in this repo

cal_archsloth.jsonl, 500 samples of exactly 9,000 characters each, Korean and English interleaved at the sample level. Interleaving is what mattered, not the ratio. Details: CALIBRATION.md.

What we did not win

[measured] Our Q4_K_M lost English, so it is not in this repository. Against Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q4_K_M.gguf it took Korean by −12.8 % and gave English away by +15.8 %. A rung we do not win is a rung we do not ship. It returns when it wins.
[measured] UD-Q6_K_M keeps English. That file is 2.9 % larger than ours. We take Korean from it by −15.1 % and it takes English back by +10.3 %. Against the file at our own rung, UD-Q6_K, we are ahead on both.
[measured] Two axes, not ten. Korean and English are measured here. The ten-axis sweep that the 4B card carries has not been run on this model. We publish only what we ran ourselves.
[pending] Long-context retrieval, agentic tool use, and the vision axis.

Reproduce this

# 1. the comparison file, straight from its own repository
hf download unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q6_K.gguf --local-dir rival

# 2. the reference the distance is measured from
python llama.cpp/convert_hf_to_gguf.py Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B --outtype bf16 --outfile ref-BF16.gguf

# 3. teacher logits, once per evaluation text
llama-perplexity -m ref-BF16.gguf -f eval/eval_ko.txt \
  --kl-divergence-base base_ko.dat -ngl 99 -c 512 --chunks 60

# 4. every candidate against the same teacher, same text, same chunks
llama-perplexity -m <candidate>.gguf -f eval/eval_ko.txt \
  --kl-divergence --kl-divergence-base base_ko.dat -ngl 99 -c 512 --chunks 60

If a number here does not replicate on your hardware, open a discussion and we will correct it.

Lineage

Component	Origin
Weights	Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B, unmodified — quantized from the original, not from anyone else's quantization
Layout, bit widths, tensor types	llama.cpp standard `Q6_K`, unchanged
Vision tower	carried at full precision, not quantized
Runtime	upstream llama.cpp, unmodified
Rounding search	Intel AutoRound with `enable_alg_ext` (SignRoundV2)
Calibration corpus, evaluation set, and the measurement	ours — all three ship in this repo

License

Apache-2.0, inherited from the base model. Comparison files are named so you can fetch the exact bytes we measured.

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GGUF

Model size

27B params

Architecture

qwen35

Hardware compatibility

6-bit

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Paper for Archsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF

SignRoundV2: Closing the Performance Gap in Extremely Low-Bit Post-Training Quantization for LLMs

Paper • 2512.04746 • Published Dec 4, 2025 • 17

📚 Collection

Qwen3.8-27B · ARCHsloth Q6

Same rung. Same tensor types. Only the rounding differs.

Which file do I want?

[measured] Q6_K — the same rung, both sides

Quickstart

What is actually different

The calibration set — it ships in this repo

What we did not win

Reproduce this

Lineage

License

Model tree for Archsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF

Collection including Archsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF

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`[measured]` Q6_K — the same rung, both sides