Phi 4 Mini, self-quantized to GGUF by Atomic Chat. Built straight from Microsoft's original weights with a per-tensor importance matrix, so this is not a repack of somebody else's files. Runs fully offline.
Highlights
- 3.8B parameters: the weights this repo quantizes.
- Context length: 131,072 tokens (128K), as published by Microsoft.
- 32 layers: Dense decoder, hybrid sliding-window (262144) and global attention.
- Full imatrix ladder: every quant is calibrated with an importance matrix.
[!NOTE] These GGUFs are self-quantized from the original weights, not a repack. The importance matrix keeps low-bit quants closer to the full-precision model.
[!IMPORTANT] Always pass
--jinjaso the Phi 4 Mini chat template is applied. Without it the model can emit malformed turns.
Model Overview
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Base model | microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct |
| Parameters | 3.8B |
| Layers | 32 |
| Sliding window | 262144 tokens |
| Context length | 131,072 tokens (128K) |
| Vocabulary | 200,064 |
| Modalities | Text |
| Architecture | Dense decoder, hybrid sliding-window (262144) and global attention, 24 attention heads over 8 KV heads, Phi3ForCausalLM |
| This repo | GGUF quants (imatrix). Quants: Q4_K_M, UD-Q4_K_XL, Q5_K_M, Q6_K, Q8_0 |
Choosing a quant
| Quant | Size | Notes |
|---|---|---|
Q4_K_M |
2.5 GB | Recommended default. Best balance of size, speed and quality. |
UD-Q4_K_XL |
2.6 GB | Dynamic. Embeddings and output kept at Q8_0 for higher quality at a Q4 footprint. |
Q5_K_M |
2.8 GB | Higher quality, low loss. |
Q6_K |
3.2 GB | Near lossless, noticeably lighter than Q8_0. |
Q8_0 |
4.1 GB | Effectively lossless, reference quality. |
[!TIP] Pick the largest file that fits your (V)RAM with room for context.
Q4_K_MorUD-Q4_K_XLis the sweet spot for most setups;Q6_KorQ8_0for maximum fidelity.
Get started
Run Phi 4 Mini locally with:
- Atomic Chat: the easiest path. Open the app, search
AtomicChat/Phi-4-mini-instruct-GGUF, pick a quant, hit Use this model. - llama.cpp:
llama-server -hf AtomicChat/Phi-4-mini-instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja -c 8192 - Ollama:
ollama run hf.co/AtomicChat/Phi-4-mini-instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M - LM Studio / Jan: search the repo id, download any quant.
Best practices
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| temperature | 0.0 |
Microsoft's recommended sampling configuration for microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct.
Run in llama.cpp
git clone https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp
cmake llama.cpp -B llama.cpp/build -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -DGGML_CUDA=ON
cmake --build llama.cpp/build --config Release -j --target llama-cli llama-server
./llama.cpp/build/bin/llama-server \
-hf AtomicChat/Phi-4-mini-instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M \
--jinja -ngl 99 -c 8192 -fa on
How these were made
- Download
microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct(original weights). - Convert to f16 GGUF with llama.cpp.
- Build an importance matrix over our calibration corpus.
- Quantize the ladder with
--imatrix. UD-Q4_K_XLadditionally pins the token-embedding and output tensors toQ8_0.
License
Original model by Microsoft, released under the MIT license. Full terms: MIT. Quantized by Atomic Chat.