Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 · GGUF F16

Evaluation results: this F16 build is the baseline each quantized build of this model is measured against. Its pass rates by capability family, with confidence intervals, are on the results page: pbhappliedsystems.com/models/mistral-nemo-instruct-2407#F16

How much does quantization degrade Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407?

Answer (quant_eval v7.22): this F16 build is the baseline. Against it:

• Q4_K_M degraded 5 of 8 families, improved 1 — Q4_K_M results
• Q5_K_M degraded 0 of 8 families, improved 0 — Q5_K_M results
• Q8_0 degraded 0 of 8 families, improved 0 — Q8_0 results

Licence provenance: Apache-2.0 (SPDX Apache-2.0), commercial use permitted_by_recorded_license; upstream mistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 at revision 8aedd450f2583e9c67fae1929f6936b8fc5aef9c (exact); evaluated file SHA-256 070920655fab05a776d40d522ba17f55c1f663310f77c8fe57dd850e8dad10ef.

Other builds of this model: Q4_K_M · Q5_K_M · Q8_0 · All evaluated builds (Collection) · Datasets

Contents: Model Description · PBH Applied Systems Evaluation — quant_eval v7.22.21/v7.22.22 · Comparability & Fixture Methodology · Per-Family Pass Rates — Full-Weight Baseline · Key Findings · Quantization Variants Comparison · Artifact Provenance · Evaluation Methodology

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📌 This is the full-precision F16 baseline repository. The evaluated quantized variants are published separately: Q4_K_M, Q5_K_M, and Q8_0. This card documents reference behavior. The quantized cards show how each compression level impacts behavioral fidelity.

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Model Description

This repository contains the full-precision F16 GGUF of mistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407, a 12-billion parameter instruction-tuned model developed by Mistral AI in collaboration with NVIDIA (July 2024 release). Mistral-Nemo features the Tekken tokenizer and a 128,000-token context window — the largest in the PBH Applied Systems evaluated series outside of Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-1M, which supports a 1 million token window.

The F16 format preserves all original float16 weights without quantization. In the PBH Applied Systems evaluation pipeline, the F16 variant serves as the reference baseline: it is evaluated first, then quantized variants are evaluated against the same fixture set, enabling direct measurement of quantization impact on behavioral fidelity.

For most production deployments, one of the quantized variants (Q4_K_M, Q5_K_M, or Q8_0) is the appropriate choice — offering substantial footprint and speed gains with controlled behavioral tradeoffs. The F16 is the right choice when maximum output fidelity, cleanest tool execution, or full 128K context at maximum precision are required.

Key Characteristics

• Parameters: 12B
• Format: GGUF F16 (full precision)
• File size: 24.5 GB
• SHA256: 070920655fab05a776d40d522ba17f55c1f663310f77c8fe57dd850e8dad10ef
• Context window: 128,000 tokens (Tekken tokenizer)
• Minimum VRAM (GPU inference): ~26 GB
• Recommended GPU tier: A100 40 GB · RTX 4090 · 2× A10G
• Inference speed (eval hardware): 25.04–33.11 tokens/sec across three F16 runs of the identical artifact on NVIDIA RTX 4090 (observed harness throughput, not a controlled benchmark)
• Multilingual: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Japanese

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PBH Applied Systems Evaluation — quant_eval v7.22.21/v7.22.22

Evaluation conducted by PBH Applied Systems, LLC using quant_eval v7.22.21/v7.22.22 Three evaluation runs published 2026-08-19 (Q4_K_M), 2026-08-15 (Q5_K_M), 2026-08-16 (Q8_0) Hardware: NVIDIA RTX 4090 · Seed: 42 · Evaluation date: August 14–16, 2026

Evaluation Data Published to Zenodo

All evaluation artifacts are published under the quant_eval Public Corpus (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22009419):

• Run Provenance (D4): 10.5281/zenodo.22010462 — Selected run manifest and rollup fields, artifact SHA-256 hashes, runner and decoding configurations
• Golden Oracle Fixtures (D3): 10.5281/zenodo.22010278 — Test case specifications and fixture version crosswalk
• Family Pass Rates (D6): 10.5281/zenodo.22010623 — Aggregate pass rates per family, both runners, 95% Wilson confidence intervals
• Per-Case Behavioral Results (D1): 10.5281/zenodo.22009799 — 19,200 per-case rows, both precisions, all signals, case-level pass/fail
• Throughput Telemetry (D2): 10.5281/zenodo.22009987 — Per-call generation metrics, wall-time, token counts
• Efficiency & Footprint (D7): 10.5281/zenodo.22010723 — Stored artifact size, compression ratio, tokens/sec, observed wall-time ratios with hardware scope

Evaluation Contract: canonical_agentic_contract_v7.22.17:evaluation · canonical_agentic_contract_v7.22.18:evaluation

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Comparability & Fixture Methodology

Identical Fixtures Across All Three Runs

All three Mistral-Nemo runs were evaluated against the same 1,600 cases. A full structural comparison of the fixture files across bundles shows the only differing key is the top-level version label: all cases, oracle expectations, and trace_sha256 values are identical, and fixture_schema_version is 7.22.13 in every bundle.

Scoring-contract revisions:

Baseline reproducibility: The F16 baseline was executed in all three runs, on different days and under both contract revisions. All eight family pass rates are identical across the three runs, and at case level 0 of 1,600 cases differ in any pairwise comparison. Every Q4_K_M, Q5_K_M, and Q8_0 delta is measured against the same baseline.

The Zenodo datasets record the fixture version-label crosswalk (D3) and per-run manifests (D4) for full reproducibility.

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Per-Family Pass Rates — Full-Weight Baseline

All rates include 95% Wilson score confidence intervals. N = 200 cases per family.

Source: quant_eval Family Pass Rates, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22010623

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Key Findings

Finding 1: Stateful and Tool Execution — Preserved at F16

Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 at full precision demonstrates clean, reliable behavior on three critical agent families: perfect state retention (1.000 on stateful_followup), flawless tool parsing (1.000 on toolcall_only), and hybrid answer+JSON correctness (1.000 on mixed_brief_json). These three families measure the core agent-execution layer — maintaining conversational state, dispatching tools reliably, and emitting structured responses alongside natural language. F16 performance is maximum on all three, establishing the baseline against which quantized variants are measured.

Finding 2: Multi-Step Planning — Below the 0.70 Operational Threshold at F16

The json_multistep family tests multi-step planning with oracle verification: pass rate 0.505 [0.436, 0.574]. At full precision, this model's planning capability is below the 0.70 operational threshold. The model struggles with medium and hard difficulty planning cases, even without quantization. This is a model characteristic, not a precision artifact — it reflects the model's inherent limitations on autonomous multi-step reasoning. Use this model for reasoning tasks requiring external planning scaffolds (ReAct agents, LlamaIndex hierarchical composition) rather than end-to-end autonomous planning. The tool-call layer is reliable; the planning layer needs guidance.

Finding 3: Structured Output — JSON Schema OK, Oracle Match is Harder

The json family (single-step structured JSON with constraints) shows a different pattern: pass rate 0.415 [0.349, 0.484]. Schema correctness reaches 100% of cases, but semantic content often diverges from the oracle plan. This is not a JSON parsing failure; it's a content-fidelity issue. Like multi-step planning, this behavior appears at F16 and is a model characteristic rather than a quantization artifact.

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Quantization Variants Comparison

See how this model performs across all three quantized variants. All three were evaluated on identical fixtures against the same F16 baseline.

How to read this table: File size and VRAM determine deployment feasibility; Speed is the observed evaluation wall-time ratio (F16 ÷ quantized) on matched RTX 4090 hardware — not a controlled throughput benchmark; Stateful/Toolcall/Hybrid are pass rates; Best For describes the deployment context.

See the full cards:

• Q4_K_M — Extreme compression, significant behavioral cost
• Q5_K_M — Balanced quantization, minimal degradation
• Q8_0 — Conservative quantization, high fidelity

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Artifact Provenance

The artifact was produced from mistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 using a custom-built llama.cpp conversion pipeline developed by PBH Applied Systems, without modification to model weights.

Artifact verification: SHA256 hashes are recorded in the run manifest (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22010462). Download the F16 GGUF and verify:

sha256sum Mistral_Nemo_Instruct_2407-F16.gguf
# Should output: 070920655fab05a776d40d522ba17f55c1f663310f77c8fe57dd850e8dad10ef

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Evaluation Methodology

quant_eval v7.22.21/v7.22.22 is a behavioral evaluation harness developed by PBH Applied Systems. The two-run architecture evaluates the full-precision (F16) model first, then evaluates the quantized variant against the same fixture set, enabling direct measurement of behavioral degradation.

Fixture set: v7.22.13 / v7.22.22 evaluation split

• Total unique cases: 1,600 (200 per family × 8 families)
• Per-family test families and pass signals:

Evaluation hardware: NVIDIA RTX 4090 (24 GB VRAM) Runner: full_weight_llama_cpp (llama.cpp via Python binding, version 0.3.16) Decoding: temperature 0.3 (per Mistral AI's published recommendation), seed 42, top_p 1.0 Context: 4,096-token context window (llama.cpp configuration) Reproducibility: Run manifest, fixtures, and per-case results published to Zenodo under the quant_eval Public Corpus

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Deployment Recommendations

✅ Deploy F16 when:

• Maximum fidelity matters more than cost. Schema-only tool calls (toolcall_only) and state tracking (stateful_followup) both score 1.000; end-to-end tool dispatch (toolcall) scores 0.930.
• Reasoning requires clean outputs. The model's tool-dispatch and hybrid-response capabilities are maximized.
• Context window utilization is critical. 128K tokens at full precision, no quantization loss.
• You can afford ~26 GB VRAM. Enterprise GPU tier (A100, RTX 4090, dual A10G).

⚠️ Avoid F16 if:

• Budget is constrained. Q5_K_M and Q8_0 show no statistically significant difference from F16 in any of the eight families (McNemar p < 0.05: 0 of 8 each) at roughly 1/3 to 1/2 the footprint.
• Latency is the bottleneck. On matched RTX 4090 hardware, observed evaluation wall-time ratios (F16 ÷ quantized) were 2.70× for Q4_K_M, 2.56× for Q5_K_M, and 1.71× for Q8_0.
• Hardware is limited to <20 GB VRAM. Use Q5_K_M or Q8_0 instead.

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License

This GGUF repository inherits the license of the base model: Apache 2.0 — mistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407

The quant_eval evaluation harness, fuzz prompt builder, and scoring implementation are proprietary to PBH Applied Systems, LLC and are not included in this repository. The golden oracle fixture set used in this evaluation is published under CC BY 4.0 as part of the quant_eval Public Corpus (D3, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22010278).

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GGUF conversion and behavioral evaluation performed by PBH Applied Systems, LLC · quant_eval v7.22.21/v7.22.22 · Published 2026-08-19