Austriani // ik_llama.cpp // GGUF
Kitchoon-Final-26B-A4B
MoE Roleplay Quantization // V3 Calibration Imatrix
26B
Total Params
4B
Active Params
1024
Imatrix Ctx
500
Cycles
The Base Model
This repository hosts
ik_llama.cpp-compatible GGUF quantizations of
SubMaroon/Kitchoon-Final-26B-A4B. This is the final iteration of the Kitchoon line, built on the
Gemma 4 26B-A4B Mixture-of-Experts architecture (26B total, 4B active per token). It is specifically tuned for
RP and ERP, focusing on character development and a neutral writing style.
The "Final" release bakes in
Anthropos v3 at 0.7. This is a LoRA trained via the BACo method to mix the instruction-tuned model with the pre-trained Gemma base, resulting in
fewer stock phrases, fewer em dashes, and more diverse swipes without sacrificing formatting or reasoning. Thinking mode is preserved and fully functional.
MaxOptima Custom Quant
In addition to the standard IQK formats, this release includes
MaxOptima. This is a bespoke, surgical quantization mix designed specifically for the 128-expert MoE architecture of Gemma 4. The goal is to protect the expert routing and critical attention layers while aggressively compressing the bulk of the expert FFNs.
MaxOptima V1 Strategy: Embeddings and output layers are locked at Q6_K. Router inputs, norms, scales, and biases are kept at full precision (F32) to preserve routing integrity. Key attention layers are kept at IQ5_K. The bulk of the expert FFNs are compressed to IQ4_KSS and IQ4_NL, with boundary blocks protected at higher precision.
View Full MaxOptima V1 Custom Quant Configuration
^output\.weight=Q6_K,^token_embd\.weight=Q6_K,ffn_gate_inp\.weight=F32,rope_freqs\.weight=F32,.*_norm\.weight=F32,.*\.scale=F32,.*_scale\.weight=F32,.*\.bias=F32,blk\.(0|1|2|3|4|5|6|11|17|18|23|24|25|26|27|28|29)\.attn_k\.weight=IQ5_K,attn_k\.weight=IQ4_KSS,attn_v\.weight=IQ5_K,blk\.(0|1|2|3|4|5|11|17|23|25|26|27|28|29)\.attn_output\.weight=IQ5_K,attn_output\.weight=IQ4_KS,attn_q\.weight=IQ5_K,blk\.(0|1|2|3|4|25|26|27|28|29)\.ffn_gate_up_exps\.weight=IQ5_K,ffn_gate_up_exps\.weight=IQ4_KSS,blk\.(0|1|2|3|4|25|26|27|28|29)\.ffn_down_exps\.weight=Q5_0,ffn_down_exps\.weight=IQ4_NL,ffn_down\.weight=Q5_0,ffn_(gate|up)\.weight=IQ5_K,.*=IQ4_KS
MaxOptima V2 Custom Quant
MaxOptima V2 is the refined successor to V1. It replaces the legacy
Q5_0 and older
IQ4_NL assignments on geometry-constrained tensors with the native IQK 32-block fallback (
IQ4_KS_R16), and lifts
all attention projections to IQ5_K across every layer. The result is a slightly smaller and consistently higher-fidelity build than V1 on the most sensitive expert and attention tensors.
MaxOptima V2 Strategy: Embeddings and output layers are locked at Q6_K. Router inputs, norms, scales, and biases are kept at full precision (F32) to preserve routing integrity.
All attention projections (attn_q, attn_k, attn_v, attn_output) are kept at IQ5_K across every layer. The bulk of the expert FFNs use
IQ4_KS; tensors whose row width is not divisible by 256 (ffn_down_exps, dense ffn_down) automatically fall back to the native 32-block
IQ4_KS_R16. Boundary expert layers are protected at IQ5_K.
View Full MaxOptima V2 Custom Quant Configuration
^output\.weight=Q6_K,^token_embd\.weight=Q6_K,ffn_gate_inp\.weight=F32,rope_freqs\.weight=F32,.*_norm\.weight=F32,.*\.scale=F32,.*_scale\.weight=F32,.*\.bias=F32,attn_k\.weight=IQ5_K,attn_v\.weight=IQ5_K,attn_output\.weight=IQ5_K,attn_q\.weight=IQ5_K,blk\.(0|1|2|3|4|25|26|27|28|29)\.ffn_gate_up_exps\.weight=IQ5_K,ffn_gate_up_exps\.weight=IQ4_KS,ffn_down_exps\.weight=IQ4_KS,ffn_down\.weight=IQ4_KS,ffn_(gate|up)\.weight=IQ5_K,.*=IQ4_KS
Available Quants
MaxOptima V2 // Custom MoE Mix
MaxOptima V2
Custom mix. F32 routing/scales, IQ5_K attention across all layers, IQ4_KS expert FFNs with native IQ4_KS_R16 fallback on non-256-divisible tensors. Best quality-to-size ratio for MoE inference.
MaxOptima V1 // Custom MoE Mix (Legacy)
MaxOptima V1
Custom mix. F32 routing/scales, IQ5_K/IQ4_KSS attention, IQ4_KSS/IQ4_NL expert FFNs. Superseded by V2; kept for existing downloads and reference.
Standard IQK // High & Mid Fidelity
IQ5_K
Higher fidelity 5-bit. Best quality-to-size for systems with sufficient memory.
IQ4_K
Standard 4-bit IQK. Uses 256-value super-blocks for scaling.
IQ4_KS
"Small" 4-bit variant with tighter packing. Lower memory footprint.
IQ4_KS_R4
Row-interleaved variant of IQ4_KS, optimized for ik_llama.cpp's matmul kernels.
Trellis // Alternative 4-Bit
IQ4_KT
Dynamic programming trellis quant. Uses a fundamentally different error-minimization strategy than IQK.
Imatrix Specification
This release utilizes the exact same
V3 Calibration Dataset used across previous Austriani releases. No datasets were changed. The calibration was executed at
500 cycles per chunk with a
1024-token context window, processing approximately
1000 chunks.
Compatibility
These GGUF files are built exclusively for ik_llama.cpp. IQK, Trellis, and MaxOptima quants will not load in mainline llama.cpp. Please refer to the official base repository for mainline GGUF compatibility.
Austriani // Kitchoon-Final-26B-A4B-RP // ik_llama.cpp
Base: SubMaroon/Kitchoon-Final-26B-A4B