⚡ DavidAU-Qwen3.8-27B-TWIN-ColdFusion-Astra-709 (NVFP4)
High-Performance Agentic Coding & Reasoning Model by KatterMobile (Kaden)
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🌟 Model Overview
DavidAU-Qwen3.8-27B ColdFusion Astra NVFP4 is an unaligned, frontier-grade agentic reasoning and software engineering model. It combines the raw intelligence and uncensored problem-solving capabilities of DavidAU's Qwen3.8-27B-TWIN-TURBO-Fable-Cold-Fusion-709 base with deep multi-turn agentic fine-tuning on the 108,148-sample Astra coding dataset.
Quantized using NVIDIA's official ModelOpt 0.46 into native NVFP4 (4-bit floating point), this model runs with extreme speed and minimal VRAM overhead on modern NVIDIA GPUs (Blackwell GB10 / RTX 50-series / Ada Lovelace / Hopper).
⚙️ Mandatory Thinking & Sampling Parameters
[!IMPORTANT] Preserve Reasoning Traces: To obtain full reasoning performance and prevent premature cutoff, ensure your client or UI preserves
<think> ... </think>tokens and exposes them inreasoning_content.
| Parameter | Recommended Value | Purpose & Notes |
|---|---|---|
temperature |
1.0 |
Mandatory for Qwen3.8 reasoning exploration dynamics. |
top_p |
0.95 |
Nucleus sampling threshold. |
top_k |
20 |
Stabilizes token choices during multi-step reasoning. |
min_p |
0.0 |
Disabled (avoids clipping low-probability reasoning branches). |
presence_penalty |
0.0 |
Neutral presence penalty. |
repetition_penalty |
1.0 |
Disabled (prevents damaging code indentation and syntax structures). |
reasoning_effort |
xhigh |
Activates deep multi-phase chain-of-thought exploration. |
max_tokens |
524,288 (512k) |
Huge output budget for full repository solutions and exhaustive reasoning. |
context_window |
1,048,576 (1M) |
1 Million token context window fully supported with native YaRN RoPE (factor 4.0). |
preserve_reasoning |
true |
Keep internal <think> traces intact. |
🧠 Transparent Architecture: Exactly How I Trained It
[DavidAU-Qwen3.8-27B-TT-ColdFusion-709 Base]
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[QLoRA SFT on Astra Dataset (108,148 Samples, 5.59 GB)]
(16,384 sequence length, r=64, α=128, all linear projections, 250 steps)
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[In-Place Safetensors Merge]
(All 12 base shards fused with trained LoRA deltas)
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[NVIDIA ModelOpt NVFP4 PTQ]
(Hessian & calibration using Astra sequences, 3 shards: 19.24 GB)
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[vLLM Serving with 1M Context & 512k Output]
(Triton attention backend, fp8_per_token_head KV cache)
1. The ColdFusion Foundation
- Base Model:
DavidAU/Qwen3.8-27B-TWIN-TURBO-Fable-Cold-Fusion-709-ULTRA-HERETIC-Uncensored-NM-DAU-NEO-MTP-GGUF. - DavidAU's ColdFusion models are renowned for their uncensored reasoning capabilities, multi-stage merge heritage, and strong code synthesis.
2. Multi-Turn Agentic Fine-Tuning (16k QLoRA)
- Dataset: 108,148 deduplicated, high-signal agentic samples (5.59 GB) from the Astra engineering suite (
sft_all_astra_full.jsonl). Contains multi-turn autonomous tool use, terminal debugging, complex systems architecture, and mathematical verification. - Hyperparameters:
- Framework: Unsloth Studio QLoRA
- Sequence Length: 16,384 tokens
- Rank / Alpha: $r=64$, $\alpha=128$ (dropout: 0.0)
- Target Modules: All linear projections (
q_proj,k_proj,v_proj,o_proj,gate_proj,up_proj,down_proj, linear attention projections) - Convergence: Loss converged from 1.50+ down to 0.19–0.50 across 250 steps with anti-ruin validation.
3. In-Place Safetensors Fusion
- All LoRA deltas were merged directly in-place across all 12 base safetensors shards, preserving 100% parameter fidelity without runtime adapter overhead.
4. NVIDIA ModelOpt NVFP4 Quantization
- Calibrated via official NVIDIA ModelOpt 0.46 PTQ (
hf_ptq.py) using real Astra calibration sequences. - Packaged into 3 safetensors shards totaling 19.24 GB (down from 52 GB BF16).
- Supported by vLLM's
FlashInferCutlassNvFp4LinearKernelfor native FP4 tensor core GEMM acceleration.
🚀 Serving with vLLM (1M Context & 512k Output)
vllm serve KatterMobile/DavidAU-Qwen3.8-27B-TWIN-ColdFusion-Astra-709-NVFP4 \
--served-model-name DavidAU-Qwen3.8-27B-TWIN-ColdFusion-Astra-709-NVFP4 \
--host 0.0.0.0 \
--port 8000 \
--max-model-len 1048576 \
--gpu-memory-utilization 0.88 \
--max-num-seqs 10 \
--max-num-batched-tokens 16384 \
--enable-prefix-caching \
--max-cudagraph-capture-size 32 --speculative-config \x27{"method": "mtp", "num_speculative_tokens": 1}\x27 \
--kv-cache-dtype fp8_per_token_head \
--attention-backend TRITON_ATTN \
--reasoning-parser qwen3 \
--enable-auto-tool-choice \
--tool-call-parser qwen3_coder \
--default-chat-template-kwargs '{"enable_thinking": true, "reasoning_effort": "xhigh", "preserve_thinking": true}' \
--hf-overrides '{"text_config": {"rope_parameters": {"mrope_interleaved": true, "mrope_section": [11, 11, 10], "rope_type": "yarn", "rope_theta": 10000000, "partial_rotary_factor": 0.25, "factor": 4.0, "original_max_position_embeddings": 262144}}}' \
--override-generation-config '{"temperature": 1.0, "top_p": 0.95, "top_k": 20, "min_p": 0.0, "presence_penalty": 0.0, "repetition_penalty": 1.0, "max_new_tokens": 524288}'
💻 Quick Start with Pi Code CLI (pi)
Add to ~/.pi/agent/models.json:
{
"providers": {
"vllm-home": {
"baseUrl": "http://<YOUR_HOST_IP>:8000/v1",
"api": "openai-completions",
"compat": {
"supportsDeveloperRole": false,
"supportsReasoningEffort": true,
"thinkingFormat": "qwen-chat-template",
"chatTemplateKwargs": {
"enable_thinking": true,
"preserve_thinking": true
}
},
"models": [
{
"id": "DavidAU-Qwen3.8-27B-TWIN-ColdFusion-Astra-709-NVFP4",
"name": "DavidAU Qwen3.8 27B ColdFusion Astra NVFP4",
"reasoning": true,
"contextWindow": 1048576,
"maxTokens": 524288,
"samplingParams": {
"temperature": 1.0,
"top_p": 0.95,
"top_k": 20
}
}
]
}
}
}
📬 Contact, Support & Feedback
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📜 Credits & Licensing
- DavidAU: For the incredible ColdFusion base model series (DavidAU on Hugging Face).
- Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud): For the frontier Qwen architecture.
- NVIDIA ModelOpt & FlashInfer: For state-of-the-art NVFP4 quantization and CUTLASS FP4 GEMM kernels.
- Unsloth: For ultra-efficient 16k context QLoRA fine-tuning.
Licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.