qwen3.8-27b-aeon-ultimate-uncensored-mxfp4-vision-mtplx

Independent MXFP4 MLX conversion of AEON-7/Qwen3.8-27B-AEON-ULTIMATE-UNCENSORED-BF16, pinned at a6775a9a8ebb65cab3f707b4ab087fc7aa698634. This is a community conversion, not an official AEON-7 or Qwen release.

Format

• Language quantization: MXFP4, 4-bit, group size 32
• Vision: 333 source BF16 tensors preserved; patch embedding converted to MLX axes
• Indexed artifact size: 14.98 GiB
• Architecture: dense Qwen3.5-family hybrid attention/GDN, 64 language layers
• Configured context: 262,144 tokens (not exhaustively qualified here)
• Tokenizer, chat template, processor metadata, and Apache-2.0 lineage preserved

MTPLX

This package adds the pinned source checkpoint's 15 native BF16 MTP tensors to the paired vision MLX body. Tensor parity, strict MTPLX inspection, a local AR/D1/D2/D3 tune, and deterministic text/vision smokes passed.

• Local selected depth: D2; decode: 52.67 tok/s; multiplier vs AR: 1.861x; verdict: mtp-faster-than-ar Runtime speed and acceptance depend on host, prompt, context, and MTPLX version; benchmark locally before selecting speculative depth.

mtplx inspect --json --require-mtp <local-path-or-repo-id>
mtplx tune --model <local-path-or-repo-id> --depths 1,2,3 --json

MTPLX 2.9.2 runtime retest

The exact published MXFP4 body and native 15-tensor BF16 MTP sidecar were retested on an Apple M4 Max with 64 GiB unified memory. No model or sidecar tensor was rewritten. The selected runtime applies load-time Q6/G64 affine quantization to the MTP block and Q4/G32 affine quantization to the draft-only vocabulary projection.

The eight-sample confirmation improved median decode by 1.75% and mean decode by 2.36%. A separate no-thinking API qualification improved code-smoke decode by 5.50%, hard-suite decode by 8.44%, and hard-suite wall time by 6.75%. Both runtime configurations passed the same 3/3 code-smoke and 4/10 local hard-suite cases, the strict tool smoke, and the long-context needle with zero reasoning tokens.

Fixed D2 remained optimal in the depth screen: D1 reached 44.22 tok/s median, D3 reached 40.09, and experimental D4 reached 40.81. Adaptive D1-D2 streak and expected-value policies did not beat fixed D2. D4 is supported experimentally by MTPLX 2.9.2 but should not be selected for this artifact on the reference host.

These are runtime results, not a new model-quality score. The 8/10 Shiftedx Bench quality result below remains bound to its MTPLX 2.7.1, medium-thinking, D2 contract. The 4/10 result above is a separate thinking-off diagnostic and must not be compared as the same operating point.

Qualification and limitations

• Pinned source metadata and all safetensors headers were checked.
• Quantization used the fixture-matched Qwen3.5 streaming adapter from MLX-LM 0.31.3.
• MXFP4 and MXFP8 were each produced directly from the same BF16 parent.
• Structural inspection and strict local load are required release gates.

This is an experimental quantization of an abliterated, intentionally unaligned checkpoint. Quantization does not restore safety alignment. The source publisher warns that the model can produce unsafe or illegal material and places downstream safety and legal responsibility on operators. Review the source model card before use and add access controls, logging, moderation, and human review appropriate to your deployment.

Basic use

python -m mlx_vlm.generate --model <repo-or-path> --image image.jpg --prompt "Describe this image." --max-tokens 256

Recommended MTPLX 2.9.2 OpenAI server configuration:

MODEL=Shiftedx/qwen3.8-27b-aeon-ultimate-uncensored-mxfp4-vision-mtplx

mtplx serve \
  --model "$MODEL" \
  --download \
  --host 127.0.0.1 \
  --port 8000 \
  --generation-mode mtp \
  --profile turbo \
  --depth 2 \
  --context-window 198000 \
  --mtp-quant-bits 6 \
  --mtp-quant-group-size 64 \
  --mtp-quant-mode affine \
  --paged-kv-quantization off \
  --reasoning on \
  --reasoning-effort medium

The high-level mtplx serve wrapper does not expose the lower-level --draft-lm-head-* flags. To reproduce the selected Q4/G32 draft projection with this older weight revision, add the following top-level object to the local mtplx_runtime.json before starting the wrapper:

"recommended_draft_lm_head": {
  "bits": 4,
  "group_size": 32,
  "mode": "affine"
}

This changes runtime metadata only; it does not rewrite model or MTP tensors.

For a request that must suppress reasoning, send the canonical top-level field "enable_thinking": false. It produced zero reasoning tokens in the MTPLX 2.9.2 validation. Re-test that behavior after runtime upgrades.

Shiftedx Bench post-publication qualification

This table was generated from the frozen lightweight quant gate after the model weights were published. Categories remain separate; the benchmark does not produce a composite intelligence score.

• Tested model revision: ff85b7fb563a642bbcbe9645789e11ed496be885
• Benchmark: Shiftedx Bench v0.3.0
• Context lengths represented: 4,096, 16,384, 65,536, 131,072 prompt tokens; effective tested context: 131,072 tokens
• Runtime contract: MTPLX 2.7.1 sustained; thinking on/medium; sampler temperature=1.0, top_p=0.95, top_k=20; Hermes hybrid routing with native explicit-parallel calls; KV cache off; MTP depth 2
• Host: Apple M4 Max, 64 GiB unified memory
• Total measured request wall time: 2408.23 seconds
• 260,096-token status: not run; it is outside the lightweight quant gate.

Scores are specific to the linked model revision, benchmark revision, runtime contract, and host. Changing weight precision, KV-cache precision, reasoning mode, template, or speculative depth creates a different benchmark candidate.