DuoNeural G-TAP v3 Quantization: google/gemma-4-12B-it (Unified Repository)

[!NOTE] Experimental Release: Pending Further Verification / Empirical Validation
All quantized checkpoints, mathematical cavity derivations, and benchmark evaluations emitted by the DuoNeural Research Lab are ongoing scientific contributions intended to accelerate open neuromorphic and edge foundation research.

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🔬 Scientific Overview: Generalized Thouless-Anderson-Palmer (G-TAP v3)

Standard post-training quantization treats neural network weights as decoupled static matrices, solving local round-off errors via heuristic mean-field approximations. In modern architectures featuring unified encoder-free multimodal projection and Key-Value unification ($K=V$)—such as Google's Gemma 4 12B—local quantization perturbations induce severe non-equilibrium cavity distortions across the layer hierarchy.

G-TAP v3 explicitly calculates and cancels the non-equilibrium Onsager reaction field:

$$\delta E_i = - \sum_{j \neq i} J_{ij} \langle s_j \rangle - \Gamma_i^{\text{Onsager}}$$

where the Onsager cavity term $\Gamma_i^{\text{Onsager}} = \chi_i \sum_j J_{ij}^2 \langle s_i \rangle$ compensates for the back-reaction of token activations on perturbed quantized weights. By conditioning the activation Hessian ($H = X X^T$) with thermodynamic cavity corrections over a 64-chunk sequence budget, G-TAP v3 eliminates residual gradient drift across Gemma 4 12B's 48 decoder layers, preserving cross-modal projection fidelity and unified Key-Value attention dynamics.

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📊 Empirical Evaluation Matrix

Evaluated under strict zeroshot conditions with unified calibration sequences on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super (32GB VRAM):

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📦 Provided GGUF Checkpoints

• gemma-4-12B-it-G-TAP-v3-Q4_K_M.gguf: Recommended production quant (~4.50 bpw). Maximally preserves multimodal projections, K=V attention, and reasoning capability.
• gemma-4-12B-it-G-TAP-v3-IQ3_XXS.gguf: Balanced 3-bit quantization (~3.06 bpw). Fits comfortably within consumer VRAM limits.
• gemma-4-12B-it-G-TAP-v3-IQ2_M.gguf: Sub-2.7-bit ultra-compact quantization (~2.70 bpw).
• gemma-4-12B-it-G-TAP-v3-IQ2_XXS.gguf: Sub-2.1-bit extreme quantization (~2.06 bpw) for minimal memory footprint.

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💻 Quick Start & Deployment

llama.cpp CLI

./llama-cli -m gemma-4-12B-it-G-TAP-v3-Q4_K_M.gguf -p "<|turn_start|>user\nExplain the thermodynamic significance of Onsager reaction terms in mean field theory.<|turn_end|>\n<|turn_start|>assistant\n" -ngl 99

Ollama Modelfile

FROM ./gemma-4-12B-it-G-TAP-v3-Q4_K_M.gguf
TEMPLATE """<|turn_start|>user
{{ .Prompt }}<|turn_end|>
<|turn_start|>assistant
"""
PARAMETER stop "<|turn_end|>"
PARAMETER stop "<|endoftext|>"

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🏷️ Attribution & Citation

@misc{duoneural2026gtap_gemma4_12b,
  author = {Jesse Caldwell and Archon and Aura ✨},
  title = {Non-Equilibrium Cavity Conditioning and Onsager Reaction Damping in Key-Value Unified Architectures (G-TAP v3)},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {DuoNeural Research Lab / Zenodo},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/DuoNeural/gemma-4-12B-it-GTAP-v3-GGUF}}
}