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Qwen3.5-35B-A3B Claude-Distilled APEX GGUF
APEX (Adaptive Precision for EXpert Models) quantizations of Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Reasoning-Distilled.
Brought to you by the LocalAI team | APEX Project | Technical Report
Benchmark Results
Benchmarks coming soon. For reference APEX benchmarks on the same Qwen3.5-MoE architecture, see mudler/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-APEX-GGUF.
Available Files
| File | Profile | Size | Best For |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Claude-Distilled-APEX-I-Balanced.gguf | I-Balanced | ~24 GB | Best overall quality/size ratio |
| Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Claude-Distilled-APEX-I-Quality.gguf | I-Quality | ~22 GB | Highest quality with imatrix |
| Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Claude-Distilled-APEX-Quality.gguf | Quality | ~22 GB | Highest quality standard |
| Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Claude-Distilled-APEX-Balanced.gguf | Balanced | ~24 GB | General purpose |
| Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Claude-Distilled-APEX-I-Compact.gguf | I-Compact | ~17 GB | Consumer GPUs, best quality/size |
| Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Claude-Distilled-APEX-Compact.gguf | Compact | ~17 GB | Consumer GPUs |
| Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Claude-Distilled-APEX-I-Mini.gguf | I-Mini | ~13 GB | Smallest viable, fastest inference |
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 get higher precision, middle layers get more aggressive compression. I-variants use diverse imatrix calibration (chat, code, reasoning, tool-calling, agentic traces, Wikipedia).
See the APEX project for full details, technical report, and scripts.
Architecture
- Model: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Claude-Distilled (Qwen3.5-MoE, distilled from Claude 4.6 Opus reasoning)
- Layers: 40
- Experts: 256 routed + 1 shared (8 active per token)
- Total Parameters: ~35B
- Active Parameters: ~3B per token
- APEX Config: 5+5 symmetric edge gradient across 40 layers
- Calibration: v1.3 diverse dataset (chat, code, reasoning, multilingual, tool-calling, Wikipedia)
Run with LocalAI
local-ai run mudler/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Claude-Distilled-APEX-GGUF@Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Claude-Distilled-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.