These GGUF quants do not work with Ollama

#4
by DannyEli - opened

Multiple users report:

Error: llama runner process has terminated
error loading model: missing tensor 'blk.0.ssm_in.weight'
llama_model_load_from_file_impl: failed to load model

with Qwen3-Coder-Next on Ollama.

A discussion on the Hugging Face Unsloth Qwen3-Coder-Next GGUF repo shows people getting this same missing tensor error when trying to run the model - https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-Next-GGUF/discussions/8

The model’s GGUF file does not actually contain a tensor called blk.0.ssm_in.weight.
Users confirmed this by inspecting the model file contents, and indeed it lacked the required weight, so Ollama cannot load it.

A comment in that thread from someone associated with the model maintainer says:
“Starting from late last year, GGUFs don’t work out of the box with Ollama anymore, so at the moment we only recommend using GGUFs with llama.cpp compatible backends.”

That means the model format and Ollama’s current loader aren’t fully compatible.

Could this be addressed, please? Perhaps using just the llama.cpp to convert it to GGUF quants that could be actually used in Ollama?

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