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Ornith-1.0-35B — APEX GGUF
APEX (Adaptive Precision for EXpert Models) quantizations of deepreinforce-ai/Ornith-1.0-35B — the lightweight, single-GPU member of the Ornith-1.0 self-improving family of open-source agentic-coding models (Qwen3.5 MoE base).
Brought to you by the LocalAI team | APEX Project | Technical Report
Available Files
| File | Profile | Best For |
|---|---|---|
| Ornith-1.0-35B-APEX-I-Balanced.gguf | I-Balanced | Best overall — imatrix-enhanced, lowest worst-case divergence |
| Ornith-1.0-35B-APEX-I-Quality.gguf | I-Quality | Highest quality with imatrix |
| Ornith-1.0-35B-APEX-Quality.gguf | Quality | Highest quality (no imatrix) |
| Ornith-1.0-35B-APEX-Balanced.gguf | Balanced | General purpose |
| Ornith-1.0-35B-APEX-I-Compact.gguf | I-Compact | Consumer GPUs, imatrix-enhanced |
| Ornith-1.0-35B-APEX-Compact.gguf | Compact | Consumer GPUs |
| Ornith-1.0-35B-APEX-I-Mini.gguf | I-Mini | Smallest viable, fastest inference |
| mmproj.gguf | Vision projector | Required for image understanding |
What is APEX?
APEX is a quantization strategy for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models. It classifies tensors by role (routed expert, shared expert, attention) and applies a layer-wise precision gradient — edge layers (first/last 5) get higher precision, middle layers get more aggressive compression. I-variants use diverse imatrix calibration (chat, code, reasoning, tool-calling, agentic traces, Wikipedia).
The key insight: in MoE models, expert FFN tensors make up the bulk of model weight but only ~8/256 experts activate per token. APEX compresses middle-layer experts more aggressively while preserving edge layers and keeping attention, SSM/Mamba, and shared-expert tensors at higher precision.
See the APEX project for full details, technical report, and scripts.
Architecture
- Model: Ornith-1.0-35B (Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration, Qwen3.5 MoE base)
- Layers: 40
- Experts: 256 routed + 1 shared (8 active per token)
- Total Parameters: ~35B
- Active Parameters: ~3B per token
- Attention: Hybrid (full attention every 4th layer, linear otherwise)
- Vision: Built-in vision encoder (mmproj included)
- APEX Config: 5+5 symmetric edge gradient across 40 layers
- Calibration: v1.3 diverse dataset (chat, code, reasoning, multilingual, tool-calling, agentic traces, Wikipedia)
Run with LocalAI
local-ai run mudler/Ornith-1.0-35B-APEX-GGUF@Ornith-1.0-35B-APEX-I-Balanced.gguf
Credits
APEX is brought to you by the LocalAI team. Developed through human-driven, AI-assisted research. Built on llama.cpp. Base model by DeepReinforce AI.