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Unsloth has been dethroned by ISTA:

https://huggingface.co/ISTA-DASLab/Qwen3.8-27B-GSQ-RCO-GGUF

The 3-bit quant is lossless based on benchmarks.


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rayladtoday at 9:57 AM

I just checked that model (ISTA-DASLab/Qwen3.8-27B-GSQ-RCO-GGUF:IQ3_S) and it does much much worse on the "Please recite Jabberwocky" test than the original bf16 does.

The bf16 only misses "snicker-snack" and this quantization becomes confused after the first stanza.