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/lmg/ - a general dedicated to the discussion and development of local language models.

Previous threads: >>108526503 & >>108523376

►News
>(04/02) Gemma 4 released: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemma-4
>(04/01) Trinity-Large-Thinking released: https://hf.co/arcee-ai/Trinity-Large-Thinking
>(04/01) Merged llama : rotate activations for better quantization #21038: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/21038
>(04/01) Holo3 VLMs optimized for GUI Agents released: https://hcompany.ai/holo3
>(03/31) 1-bit Bonsai models quantized from Qwen 3: https://prismml.com/news/bonsai-8b

►News Archive: https://rentry.org/lmg-news-archive
►Glossary: https://rentry.org/lmg-glossary
►Links: https://rentry.org/LocalModelsLinks
►Official /lmg/ card: https://files.catbox.moe/cbclyf.png

►Getting Started
https://rentry.org/lmg-lazy-getting-started-guide
https://rentry.org/lmg-build-guides
https://rentry.org/IsolatedLinuxWebService
https://rentry.org/recommended-models
https://rentry.org/samplers
https://rentry.org/MikupadIntroGuide

►Further Learning
https://rentry.org/machine-learning-roadmap
https://rentry.org/llm-training
https://rentry.org/LocalModelsPapers

►Benchmarks
LiveBench: https://livebench.ai
Programming: https://livecodebench.github.io/gso.html
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GPUs: https://github.com/XiongjieDai/GPU-Benchmarks-on-LLM-Inference

►Tools
Alpha Calculator: https://desmos.com/calculator/ffngla98yc
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Sampler Visualizer: https://artefact2.github.io/llm-sampling
Token Speed Visualizer: https://shir-man.com/tokens-per-second

►Text Gen. UI, Inference Engines
https://github.com/lmg-anon/mikupad
https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp
https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp
https://github.com/theroyallab/tabbyAPI
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm
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►Recent Highlights from the Previous Thread: >>108526503

--Discussing Gemma 4 26B performance and tool usage on 5060 Ti:
>108527655 >108527665 >108527692 >108527773 >108527842 >108527887 >108527759 >108527807 >108527822 >108527791 >108527846
--Llama.cpp merges dedicated parser for Gemma 4:
>108526680 >108526688 >108526713 >108526730 >108526840 >108526858 >108526875 >108526718 >108527752 >108528232 >108528250 >108528325 >108528388
--Debating Chat Completion versus Text Completion for local Gemma 4:
>108526570 >108526586 >108526600 >108526640 >108526627 >108526635 >108526657 >108527608 >108527631 >108527633 >108527762 >108527790 >108527927 >108527982 >108527676 >108526651 >108526809 >108526855 >108526901 >108526913 >108526960 >108526987 >108527003 >108527019 >108527029 >108527109 >108527143 >108527171 >108527208 >108527195 >108527223 >108527009 >108527015 >108526637 >108526656 >108526682 >108528378
--Analyzing how llama.cpp special tokens affect model output probability:
>108527334 >108527370 >108527440 >108527403 >108527422 >108527428 >108527460
--Discussing Gemma 4 MoE quantization and possible llama.cpp bugs:
>108526551 >108526555 >108526558 >108526629 >108526568 >108526616 >108526660 >108526678 >108526626
--Bayes' Theorem COVID-19 test probability problem solutions:
>108528475 >108528485 >108528507 >108528523 >108528684 >108528553
--Discussing RAM bandwidth and channel count for model offloading:
>108527560 >108527570 >108527862 >108527612 >108527590 >108527601
--Testing Gemma's strong bias toward "Tails" in coin flip simulations:
>108527174 >108527216 >108527234 >108527246 >108527190 >108527204
--Gemma-4's lipogram performance and discussion on prompt template role reversal:
>108527832 >108527856 >108527872 >108527894 >108527874 >108527925
--Miku (free space):
>108526588 >108527219 >108527335 >108527692 >108527846 >108526950

►Recent Highlight Posts from the Previous Thread: >>108526507

Why?: >>102478518
Enable Links: https://rentry.org/lmg-recap-script
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Both Qwen and Google saved local. We were back, and now we are so so back.
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>gemmy 4 releases
>thread activity goes up 10x
google wonned
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qwen 3.6 will avenge it's fallen sister
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unfortunately I think I'll have to stick with qwen for agentic shit. But for everything else, it's gemma.
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>>108528901
(9b size only) (in 6 months)
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>>108528901
>>108528906
they did a poll on twitter and 27b won
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>>108528901
*its
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>>108528906
a 9b that has a severe case of punching above it's weight.
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>>108528911
sorry.
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>>108528896
cause it's based, even if you use non-reasoning mode (which makes refusals actually a bit more common) you can just do ChatGPT 3.5 edit shenanigans on the refusal like this and it works 100% of the time
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has anyone here tried to use speculative decoding? how did it went?
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>>108528901
I sure hope so.
Better models are better models.
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>>108528901
I 100% guarantee you it's still gonna be way slower in practice and think for too long and have a manner of communicating in English that sounds quite bizarre to people who actually speak English natively a lot of the time.
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>>108528922
It's okay I forgive you *kisses u*
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>>108528926
I made some attempts at using draft models and some of the other stuff that made it into llama.cpp in the past but it was always a waste of time
stuff like EAGLE and MTP seem better but I haven't had the opportunity to try them
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>>108528926
Did a lot when we had Llama 70B and it did help a bit. Now either MoEs come with MTP layers or models like Devstral don't come with draft sized models.
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just Gemma 4 E4B explaining how to make the dog pp in my Chroma gens looks better, no biggie
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Anybody tried this? A pity they won't quote actual examples.
https://ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/core/prompt-formatting-gemma4#adaptive-thought-efficiency

It seems to work if you add in the instructions something like
>Use a low thinking budget for your thoughts.
or
>Use a high thinking budget for your thoughts.
But if you ask it to think for example in Chinese, it won't do it.
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>>108528979
>chinese
I'm sorry, I THOUGHT THIS WAS AMERICA
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>>108528937
*slides tongue into your mouth*
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https://limewire.com/d/bZYeo#D4ZdJZY2Zw
Nothing to see here, totes not a script to restore Opus access on LMArena.
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im too dumb for llama
does gemma 4 work on kobold
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>>108529000
i love you! *smacks your ass*
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>>108529003
just download the chatgpt app and use that
or gemini in your browser
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>>108529003
It works, but the latest release doesn't have all the fixes yet
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>>108528979
It says it wasn't trained. It's just an artifact so it's not entirely reliable and you're meant to experiment and find what works for you.
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>>108528979
gave the 24b a <reasoning> prompt telling it how to format it's reasoning and what it should think about and the model followed it. really cool
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>>108529020
>try it and see for yourself
Based gemma 4 devs
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anyone here using TTS, if so what's your setup? Always wanted to be able to talk to my PC, even if it's just some roleplaying local model it could be fun to have a conversation.
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>>108528687

Stop ignoring meeeeeeeeee!!!
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whats with the brinstar map
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speaking of which, i'm trying to get VibeVoice-ComfyUI working on a 6700XT and it's pissing me off. the model does load but once it gets to generation i just get "Error invalid device function at line 532 in file /src/csrc/ops.hip"
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>>108529054
*Kisses you intensively*
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>>108528880
I sexted with an 8B model this afternoon. First time doing it.
Hello.
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>>108529062
welcome, enjoy stay
start saving now so you can move up to a 31B model
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>>108529042

I vibe-coded around the Kitten-TTS for this purpose

you might need a proxy server in between to intercept the AI's responses
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>>108529059

ty, kind anon ))
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>>108529063
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oh my god...
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>>108529076

0.000001b models do not count
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>>108529076
1 million tokens per second is pretty good numbers, what year are you posting from?
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What did I say a few days ago? Slippery slope of slop.
I renew my warnings about pwilkin getting his sloppy fingers in gpu backend code.
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>>108529063
There are certainly 4 paws and 4 legs visible.
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>>108529086
what does this mean for my fp16-only gpu?
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>>108529063
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>>108529086
I wish CudaDev good luck reviewing his PRs.
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>>108529096
Considering his past history, it may explode.
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I'm tired. I don't want to cum anymore.
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Fellow 24GBvramcels, what llama.cpp args have you been running?

With my 3090 I've been running

--parallel 1 \
--temp 1.0 \
--top-p 0.95 \
--top-k 64 \
--ctx-size 65536 \
--cache-type-k q8_0 \
--cache-type-v q8_0 \
-hf unsloth/gemma-4-31B-it-GGUF:Q4_K_M


And it's been pretty great, very impressed with the model. Generations running at nearly 30 t/s.

Anyone manage to fit longer context than 64k in somehow?
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is hermes actually better than openclaw? i think all the shill posts are bots.
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>>108529027
It can work well depending on what you're asking it to do.
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>>108529149
>>108528853
>Please rate my gemma 4
Rated. It has some absurdities like
>Avoid cages with plastic bases that trap heat;
and bad advice like
>Nail Trimming: Trim nails every 4–8 weeks using small animal clippers to prevent snagging or ingrowth.
And dangerously incomplete advice like
>Exercise: Allow "out of cage" time in a chinchilla-proofed room (no electrical cords).
The advice to
>avoid pine
is correct in a way but severely misleading. All the pine boards you can get at a lumber yard are kiln-dried to remove water so they don't warp, and a side-effect of this is also removing the harmful-to-chinchillas phenols from the wood. It's why a pine 2x4 doesn't smell much like pine. If you were thinking of breaking a branch off a pine tree and bringing it home, yeah that would be harmful.

Also it misrepresents "fur slip."
>Fur Condition: Check for "fur slip" (clumps of fur falling out) or redness, which may indicate fungal infections or mites.
Fur slip is something that may happen while handling a stressed-out chinchilla. It's a defense mechanism where the chinchilla detaches fur from its body to escape from the grip of a predator.
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>>108529133
trade -ub for -c
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I gave Gemma a try and the 26B model in one go coded me a better extension than what I could get out of ChatGPT,Deepseek or Qwen.
It understood a problem that was preventing the other models from getting it right and explained it without me even asking and solved it.
These local models are getting pretty damn impressive.
Gemma feels genuinely intelligent, like you're talking to a person who's capable of creative thinking.
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>>108529196
Would you say this is in line with the advice you usually find online? or it just weird hallucinations?
Thanks for taking the time to analyze its reply!
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I think gemma 4 with the mmproj in llamacpp is leaking VRAM.
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why did someone delete the under 18B joke. that was funny.
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>>108529251
underageB&
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https://x.com/MarceloLima/status/2040485483965194265
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>>108529240
Just buy more, simple as.
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>>108529251
that's why i like MoE models, they say they're 26B, but in reality they're 4B
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>>108529303
>Your Honor. I was informed that the model was 26B. It showed me its HF card.
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>>108529303
>that's why i like MoE models, they say they're 26B, but in reality they're 4B
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>>108529284
>there's a path
Duh, they didn't buy Groq for nothing.
>relatively large
Just like Mistral Small 4 is relatively small, relatively large is not Large 3 but Large 2, and by today's standards that isn't large at all.
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And now TheTom, early turboquant slopper, enters the ring for the slippery slope of sloppers.
This is the guy selling AI generated
>demographic & psychographic targeting
https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/21452
https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/21119
He knows the rules, but he just couldn't stop himself.
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how autistic do you figure this guy is on a scale of one to ten
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>>108529363
14
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>>108529363
isnt that automated? but still...
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>>108529363
not really I think he's just making changes testing shit out and whatever people download the most is the one he praises too kek
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>>108529363
perfect for good looks
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LLMs owe me sex
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>>108529376
I think I had sex to one today.
was kinda wild ngl
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>>108529370
i've tried some, a lot are broken, some are actually kinda good though, bit of a mixed bag
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>>108529376
just like real women mirite
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Finally trying out Gemma.
>RP with loli character
>actually acknowledges the size difference
Neat. Mistral and Qwen tend to act like you're both the same height unless you specifically bring it up.
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real women haven't been invented yet
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>>108529390
Please tell me that image is AI and nobody really paid for it. Please...
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>>108529402
>he doesn't know that people pay for AI
>people
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does llama.cpp rotate cache for gemma4 yet? if not, why not?
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>>108529406
Oh, great. It's even worse than I expected. Thank you.
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>>108529409
>does llama.cpp rotate cache for gemma4 yet?
no
>if not, why not?
nobody has vibecoded it yet
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>>108529402
it actually doesn't return shit on Hive, which is unusual. So it's either a legit anime pic or AI that someone went out of their way to post-process such that it wasn't detectable as AI.
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>>108529413
what is wrong with them?
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>>108529409
Because it was made to work on kv cache, not on swa.
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>>108529389
imagine a bench for this that was treated seriously with no one ever addressing how fucked up it was
kek
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>>108529424
I'll make the logo
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>>108529418
iswa is just the regular kv cache concatenated with the swa cache thoughbeit
the implementation could easily apply the rotation to only the base kv cache
this implementation is left as an exercise for the reader
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>>108529430
ALC (Anon's Last Cunny)
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>>108529434
>iswa is just the regular kv cache concatenated with the swa cache niggertalk
So swa and kv are not the same thing. And they don't work the same way. And a method that works for one doesn't necessarily apply to the other one. Glad we agree.
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>>108529418
what? since when they are mutually exclusive? it shouldn't be a problem. they'd just rather make shitty ai vibecoded changes nobody asked for, instead of making real improvements already on the table, i guess?
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>>108529434
I'm sure piotr will get around to it in a couple of weeks
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>>108529445
>So swa and kv are not the same thing.
https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/src/llama-kv-cache-iswa.h#L78
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>>108529450
>since when they are mutually exclusive?
I didn't say that. I said
>a method that works for one doesn't necessarily apply to the other
The kv layers still get the att_rot.
>>108529459
They're not operated on the same way. Otherwise they wouldn't be separate objects, would they?
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is gemma 4 fully finally usable with koboldcpp?
or is it still based on the broken llama.cpp version?
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>>108529470
It's about on par with upstream if you use the latest rolling release, but support is still not at 100%
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audio input MR is ready
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>>108529232
It seems inspired by chinchilla advise to a degree but somewhat mangled and partially filled in with advice for other small mammals. It omits some facts and emphases that basically everyone brings up when laying out the essentials of chinchilla care.
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god damn the 3090 happens to be the best investment into the hobby I made by chance years ago
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What's with all the </q>s in gemma's thinking?
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I've been running Gemma 4 on several cards, some of them getting close to the 80 messages range. I feel degration starting to creep in at around the 16k context range, and mostly when I reply with little effort and stay at a scene for too long. I'm impressed with how little I've noticed myself regenerating though. It's pretty good at maintaining scene consistency. And as the other anon said, it likes to make references to how small the cunny characters are a lot. I love it. Definitely my top cunny model. God, I can't believe I'd say that for an NA model, from fucking google of all companies even.

It's got its slop moments, but I'm sure these'll get fixed by the finetuners. Can't wait.
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>>108527119
with proper context and a second smaller gemma 4 agent creating a glossary, vn real time aitl can be a solved problem
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>>108529502
Hope the tuners preserve the context length performance...
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>>108529502
I actually didn't even feel any degradation at 33k context. are you using 31B or 26B ? but maybe I'm just bad at spotting it.

It's got it's own set of sloppa. mainly strawberries.
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>>108529501
this isn't a thing, your way of interacting with the model is fucked, just use something that can load the fucking Jinja template normally
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>>108529501
>>108529523
This was a thing for me until the manual parser got merged in.
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>>108529523
No.
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>>108529523
>>108529535
Actually scratch that. it's still very much doing it.
>(the <q>"shy student"</q>).
>(the <q>"degenerate"</q>).
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>>108529502
Forgot to add that I'm using the 31b model. It also seems biased to reply reply in the 300-400 token range, but that may be because of how the cards are set. I need to do more tests.

>>108529515
It's better than others in same param range for sure. And like I said, it only gets bad when I let the bot take the wheel, filling the context with even more slop.
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>>108529499
My love for my 4090 grows stronger every day
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on the topic of prefill from the last thread, is it already a thing, (or would it make sense to,) use a SOTA model to prefill the first few words/sentences, and then let a smaller local model finish the response on its own?
the idea is that it would kickstart the dumber model's response by getting it on the right track or something
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please respond
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Beyond the bullshit, Gemma-4 is the best model that can fit within my 4090 that I've ever tried. This is fire. Gemma has saved local.
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was there any local tool that got adapted from the big claude leak? or did anthropic manage to dmca everything in existence?
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>>108529569
I regret not buying a second 3090 or a 4090, their prices are ridiculous on the used market, and they'll probably stay that way until the nvidia 6000s
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>>108529585
Let's try it. I start the sentence and you continue from there.
The solution to solve all problems is
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>>108529501
Wait until you see the $rightarrow
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>>108529588
*grabs your dick*
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>>108529596
>best model that can fit within my 4090
What quantization anon? The 31B?
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>>108529603
masturbation
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>>108529597
Just a lot of prompts. There's nothing of value to take.
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>>108528970

Brother. Seek god.
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If my gpu turned me into a girl and then wanted to impregnate me after rough sex I'd be ok with that
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>>108529610
Fuck. It works.
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>24gb vram only gets me 16k context (8 bit) with gemma 4 31b
Owari da
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>check /lmg/ daily
>see if v4 has been released
>nothing_ever_happens.jpg
>go back to my duties
such is life.
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>>108529635
32k works fine with iq4_xs and no KV at f16
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>>108529607
31b, Q4_K_M, 24k context
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>>108529638
>no KV at f16
*no KV quant, f16
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>>108528901
at least it will put a fire under the ass on most the current chinese models makers, which is good either way
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>>108529635
You should be getting more than that at 24gb of vram, even on windows.
Add "-np 1" to your llama.cpp launch command.
Evidently, it default to 4 parallel slots for some reason, so you end up using far more memory than you should compared to a single user setup.
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>>108529638
>>108529644
How bad is the quality compared to q4_k_m?

>>108529655
I'm using koboldcpp (linux)
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>>108528970
>sensory overload
AND IT SMELLS LIKE OZONE
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>>108529638
>>108529639
>>108529644
you can go up to 52k context with IQ4_NL

.\llama-server.exe --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8080 -m D:\models\gemma-4-31B-it-IQ4_NL.gguf --ctx-size 52000 --gpu-layers 999 --parallel 1
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>>108529636
We got the wrong v4.
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>>108528901
It will probably be just a cooding finetroon.
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>>108529479
thanks anon
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>>108529671
Good. Fuck RP trannies
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>>108529666
>666
I see you've learned and adapted your cmd and you're using IQ4 NL now
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>>108529655
>default to 4 parallel slots
learned when I kept getting OOMs for no reason, why the hell is this the default? people using the default are local users mostly, and the ones serving multiple users would know how to use the right flag
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>>108529687
probably subagents or some shit
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>>108529661
>How bad is the quality compared to q4_k_m?
Virtually identical
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>>108529592
annexing teto territory with miku and neru
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>>108529702
The PPL of Q4_K_M looks like it's about 0.25 on that chart, while the PPL of IQ4_XS looks like it's over 1.0 - isn't that rather significant?
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>>108529722
no the peepee is 0.7
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>>108529702
that chart is 3 years old
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>>108529636
that's seia
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>>108529775
out of 10
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Reporting in with some anecdotal info, the 26B MoE model is almost indistinguishable from the 31B dense for "creative writing" purposes, and about 20x faster on 12GB of VRAM. maybe 25 tokens/sec versus 1.5 tokens/sec.

If you get gibberish, make sure you set top_K sampler to a fairly low value, It worked like shit for me until gemini helped me fix my settings.
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also sampler order needs to be changed around a bit, at least from default settings in koboldCPP. you can just screenshot your settings and paste them to gemini and it'll help you tweak everything so it works properly.
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>>108529784
With Gemma 4's overconfidence in top tokens I would be surprised that TopK would affect outputs much at all.
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>>108529722
Not him but that graph is very outdated. Here is something more recent, more detailed, and realistic to what you can expect. IQ4_XS is practically the same quality as K_S and K_M when made with imatrix, except in its ability to recall digits of pi, where K_S and K_M are better.
Also keep in mind that IQ quants may have slower speeds. On my machine it seems the same, but others have reported they aren't as fast.
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Are tools like Hermes or open claw a meme on normal desktop hardware? I would like to mess with an agent, but I'm not going to use a cloud provider.
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>>108529796
I have no way to check that, but specifically if you get gibberish outputs, or just confused weirdness, those instructions fixed it for me.
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>>108529796
Look. He's asking gemini how to configure his top-k. Obviously he knows what he's doing.
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>>108529793
I wish I was able to bullshit that well when I started my professional career
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>>108529800
>Also keep in mind that IQ quants may have slower speeds
IQ quants are significantly slower on CPU, but on GPU it shouldn't make a difference.
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>>108529806
well it fucking worked, i dunno what to tell you.
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>>108529800
if you're using gemma 26b and unsloth the nl and xs are same size so choose whichever I guess
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>>108529805
>I have no way to check that
god...
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>>108529821
yes? how can I help?
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here's gemini's take on different quant types for the 26B. You can just ask AI things
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>>108529826
nono... the other one...
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>>108529775
Here's one that's a little more recent.
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>>108529839
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Gemmy 4 passes the simple test where you end your own reply with a cut off, for example, like th-

I've only ever seen Nemo react to it in fun ways. Local has never been more saved.
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>>108529702
>>108529839
>>108529842
I guess you haven't seen the ppl scores for 31b-it, have you? I don't think those charts mean much for gemma4.
>>108528012
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>>108529604
>$rightarrow
fuck that shit
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>fucking gemma nearly uncensored
>chinese models getting more and more censored
what is this clown world
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>>108529635
I get 68k q4xs and q8 kv
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>>108529866
well it's clearly broken
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>>108529869
To be fair Gemma 4 is just a single model, as is Qwen 3.5. Let's see how uncensored the next GLM, Deepseek, gpt-oss, etc are.

Actually what western local makers are there left even? Mistral is utterly fucked so we can just ignore them.
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>>108529886
>Mistral is utterly fucked
QRD?
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>>108528880
when the hell will turboquant going to land in llma.cpp im tired of waiting
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>>108529880
It's the overbaked chat template. It was explained in the last thread.
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>>108529894
when you stop touching yourself
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Sillytavernsisters, what are your settings for Gemma 4? I'm still reusing an old preset.
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>>108529894
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>>108529687
I've built with
DGGML_SCHED_MAX_COPIES=1
since that time when memory exploded when using multi gpu.
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>>108528923
>ChatGPT 3.5 edit shenanigans
what?
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I think I settled on a good cmd for my GPU only no CPU offloading 5060 (16GB)

# KV F16 32K CTX XS or NL doesn't matter much
# UB 128 can't use vision model and images
llama-server \
--host 0.0.0.0 \
--port 8080 \
-hf unsloth/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-GGUF:UD-IQ4_XS \
--temp 1.0 \
--top-p 0.95 \
--top-k 64 \
--min-p 0.0 \
-c 32768 \
--flash-attn on \
--parallel 1 \
--no-slots \
--swa-checkpoints 0 \
--keep -1 \
--reasoning auto \
-kvu \
-b 2048 \
-ub 128 \
--cache-type-k f16 \
--cache-type-v f16 \
-ngl 999 \
--metrics \
--fit-target 128 \
--poll 0 \
--threads 2 \
--jinja \
--alias Gemma4

# My default at the moment
# 50K CTX Q8 KV IQ4_NL UB 266
# Increase -ub and decrease -c if it crashes on some images
# Optionally lower Q8 to Q4 or Q4_1 or Q5_1
llama-server \
--host 0.0.0.0 \
--port 8080 \
-hf unsloth/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-GGUF:UD-IQ4_NL \
--temp 1.0 \
--top-p 0.95 \
--top-k 64 \
-c 50000 \
--flash-attn on \
--parallel 1 \
--no-slots \
--swa-checkpoints 0 \
--context-shift \
--spec-type ngram-simple \
--cache-reuse 256 \
--cache-ram 16384 \
--keep -1 \
--reasoning auto \
-kvu \
-b 2048 \
-ub 266 \
--cache-type-k q8_0 \
--cache-type-v q8_0 \
-ngl 999 \
--metrics \
--fit-target 512 \
--poll 0 \
--threads 2 \
--jinja \
--alias Gemma4

Optionally someone said you can use Gemma3 for some performance, but I haven't tried this myself.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1sc2s2a/speculative_decoding_works_great_for_gemma_4_31b/
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>>108529902
long overdue
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>>108529133
no flash-attn?
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>>108529900
here u go son. scroll down a little bit in that same menu and post your sampler order as well cause you might need to change that.
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>>108529922
On by default
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>>108529910
There's no need to specify parameters to set them to their default value. Make your spam more efficient at least.
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>>108529666
uox can unst -ngl all
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>>108529931
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>>108529891
Their last big release was largely just prunes of their older models, inferior in every metric and future new models are required to have copyrighted materials scrubbed from their datasets.
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>>108529956
Are you an early sd1.1 gen?
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>>108529902
niggernov could paste that in just about every open PR and retire
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>>108529900
Gemma 4 text completion is fucked, nobody's found a correct template that results in outputs similar to chat completion. You can wrangle it into coherency but you're not getting anywhere near the actual performance of the model, even in creative/ERP.
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>>108529891
fucked by legislation, forced to use non copyrighted material (as they have to say what they actually use) and relegated to a second rate actor
what a fucking waste
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...how do I break it to Kimi, bros?
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>>108529843
>Nemo
i was too busy to try this out
how was it
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>>108529943
>There's no need to specify parameters to set them to their default value
NTA but llama.cpp defaults change every week and a lot of the time they're retarded.
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>mfw this works
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is the gemmie4 tokenizer bug fixed? am i safe to build?
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>>108529971
Isn't chat completion censored? Or is that just the vision?
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For chat completion mode, is there a way to make SillyTavern send reasoning back through the "reasoning_content" field of the messages (the same way the models typically send them) instead of as thinking blocks at the beginning of the content? Models with interleaved thinking expect this so that their chat template can handle deciding how many previous thinking blocks it will ultimately include in the prompt so that they don't forget why they were calling the functions they did. In ST you can just include a static number of prior think blocks that will be included for each prompt, but this is not ideal.
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>>108529981
llama.cpp changes every week
that's why I only pull every six months
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Looks like the person that made the Qwen Heretic v3 people here liked has released one for Gemma.
https://huggingface.co/llmfan46/gemma-4-31B-it-uncensored-heretic-GGUF

And it seems he too had high refusal rate with vanilla Gemma. This kind of tells me that the dataset they're using is really short context and basically rawdogging the model to get it to say/do [bad thing]. And that also agrees with my experience of using his abliterations, where they are able to solve refusals, but they do not alter the model's biases, whereas Hauhau's for instance has an actual affect on bias, tending to make responses less safety-lobotomized.
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>>108529989
Vision is somewhat censored without a prompt but text is fine
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>>108529981
Then you have a long way to go.
> llama-server -h 2> /dev/null | grep -- -- | wc -l 
233
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>>108529988
Yes*
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>>108530000
I tested this and the ara version. The ara version is strictly better. I think this one is fried.
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>>108530014
>*
sweating nervously
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>>108529986
Thousands moms died in their sleep in the training dataset for avoiding the rules, so the model is well aware of what is at stake...
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>>108529957
try this. also there's another thing you have to fuck around with in the instruct settings.
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>>108530019
What? This claims to use ARA, and as far as I see there are no other versions on his account. Are you confusing this for Qwen?
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>>108529986
Honestly I think gemma 4 is one of the first models where it actually listens when you say DON'T DO X.
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>>108530030
you have to change all these sequence prefixes and suffixes so it'll work with gemma 4. just paste this pic into gemini and this text that i wrote and ask it to give you all the right shit to paste in there.
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>>108529986
How many can you list before it makes mistakes?
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>>108529499
>>108529569
Same but there have been some really rough patches.
>the moment when llama 2 released without 34b
>coping with mythomax and nemo
>the "everything is a giant bloated moe" era
at least we can enjoy the moment for now. we made it.
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Do we really deserve a small model this good?
There has to be a catch, right?
I'm scared bros
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>>108530082
I still have a soft spot for that old mistral 8x7b and its finetunes. That little guy punched above his weight for a pretty long time.
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>>108529003
I was trying 2 different Gemma 4 GGUFs with kobold, and while they load, the output is all fucked up
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>>108530094
The catch was in the T&C you agreed to in order to download the weights.
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>Meta's super secret Avocado model barely outperformed Gemini 2.5 Pro on the mememarks
>Gemma 4 significantly outperforms Gemini 2.5 Pro on the mememarks
Nothing another five war rooms can't fix
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Thank you gemma very cool
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>>108530100
Which doesn't matter because google will never see what's happening on our computers
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>>108530105
Do not lay your hands upon Aqua, cretin!
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What copilot clone in vscode has currently the best free tier?
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>>108530113
It went ahead and raped her
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>>108530102
They can always spend another billion to poach employees from the Gemma team.
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>>108530123
>M-MORE!! F-FUCK ME!! treat me like your little slut!! PLEASE!!
when did rape get so consensual
did the zoomers do this
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>>108529910
Is this just tinkertrannying for marginal gains? Ollama gemma4 31B Q4_K_M with default params just werks on Mac. What am I missing?
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>>108530123
>you don't just [x], you [x]
>your grip [adjective and [adjective]
yuk
im putting out a warrant for kane's arrest
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>>108530135
nobody asked homo
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what's wrong with gemma.
each swipe starts the same
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>>108530133
This is just how females act when they are raped. It's a primal thing, works every time.
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What do you guys make ryona, guro, DID stuff with?
Nano Banana breaks my heart from the wasted potential.
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>>108530159
Not really. They cry, freeze up, then just take it until it's over.
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How do I enable thinking for unsloth's version of a model? I can't get smaller quants for lm studio.
I'm starting to think lm studio might just be a piece of shit.
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>>108530159
>>108530168
This depends on your race mostly.
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>>108530175
download the official safetensors and quant your own ggufs, they'll have the official chat template instead of whatever braindead abomination unsloth cooked up this week
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>>108530193
this
black/brown = hate it, possible suicide afterwards
whites = might hate, might love, depends on how you look
asian = laugh and easily fight them off
indian = suicide while it's happening
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>>108529971
There's no special sauce in chat completion, it does exactly the same thing
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>>108530166
>Nano Banana breaks my heart from the wasted potential.
wait for 2027, gemma 5 will output images and local will be saved once again
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>>108530204
where's the schizo race?
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>>108530166
Qwen Image Edit exists
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>>108530205
It formats the text sent to the model in a completely different way
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>>108530216
No? You can format the text completion to be identical to what's in the chat template. What do you think text completion is? Do you even know what context is?
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>>108530205
Well jinja is more powerful than SillyTavern's template system so there could theoretically be things impossible to replicate unless you're writing your own client or mods, but every model I've seen does pretty simple formatting easily replicable with the right prefix/suffixes so in practice you're right, outside of maybe some tool call stuff that you usually won't have a reason to use.
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>>108530216
I won't defend ST's absurd nightmare of settings and check boxes but you can just read the prompt it's sending. If it follows the template then there is no difference. In fact ST is liable to send extra garbage in chat mode because it thinks it's a cloud model.
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>>108529076
physics btfo
>>108529240
increase --fit-target buffer
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>>108529960
>>108529975
i guess models just can't be developed in the EU kek
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to the guys who say gemma always repeats itself across different swipes, are you using using chat completion or text completion? maybe chat completion makes it less creative.
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I feel like, after checking all forums, archives etc., that I'm the only dude on earth who tries to use AI to narrate stories involving multiple characters. Like everyone else is just using it to do productive things, or RP. The most I've seen is people doing group chats, which is not what I'm looking for (or doing on my own).

Is no one else doing dynamic storytelling involving multiple characters? What system prompts do you use? I use a basic one that is intentionally light on words, basically tells the AI to narrate in 3rd person, focus on multi-turn dialogue between characters, and to describe things literally so as to avoid purple prose. In my experience, more elaborate system prompts just constrains the AI into writing the same thing over and over again, and empty system prompts just cause the AI to get lazy (e.g. most models will never write dialogue between characters unless you specifically tell it to in the sysprompt).

I'm at the end of my wits. Anywhere I check to find advice/discussions on how to configure a proper, modern AI narrator is practically empty, like no one else is doing it. I've found some discussions here from back in fucking 2023, am I alone in this niche?

>inb4 /aids/
Those SaaS fucks rely so heavily on paid services spoonfeeding them that literally no one there has system prompts, cards or advice, it's all just "bro pay $25 a month and this website does it for you."

>inb4 ask grok/gemini to write one for you
Try it yourself. The system prompts they write are slopped to the fucking gills, which just causes the model to go haywire with purple prose.
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>>108530288
how many characters are you talking here? are they all constantly in the same room or are they all off doing separate things? I don't think LLMs are really smart enough to juggle so many balls at once, yet.
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>>108530288
>Try it yourself. The system prompts they write are slopped to the fucking gills
Just proofread what they shit out and edit the parts you don't want.
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>>108530288
time to train your own model bro
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>>108530288
>system prompts
Stop with the system prompt, stop with the chat template
Then do yourself a favor. Pull up Mikupad, hook it up to a hosted /v1/completions endpoint, and then just write, and hit generate. The model will pick up from where you left off just like a base model would, even if it's an instruct model
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>>108528880
Why would u need an uncensored model for generating civ2 maps?
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Still broken
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>>108530317
maybe you're confused, anon
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the vision capabilities for nsfw are way worse on gemma 4 than qwen 3.5, it just invents random stuff the second some things require context
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It was mentioned in the previous threads that changing the softcap helps with making Gemma less repetitive between swipes. Anyone test if it degrades the quality much or is it the best workaround for now?
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>Niche shit I use works fine in lm studio but fucks up in koboldcpp and llama.cpp for no apparent reason
Fuck guess I have to use this bullshit.
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Is the Kobold/ST Gemma implementation still broken? I'm getting 2t/s in ST and the same settings get me 51t/s in LMStudio.
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>>108530364
Seems to work for me, I'm used the latest rolling update from one hour ago : https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp/releases/tag/rolling
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Can anyone advice a brainlet why it crash on claude code
llama-server.exe
--n-gpu-layers auto
--parallel 1
--batch-size 2048
--ubatch-size 2048
--threads 8
--fit-target 500
--host 0.0.0.0
--port 7890
--metrics
--mlock
--fit off
--model c:\llm\gemma-4-31B-it-Q4_K_M.gguf
--ctx-size 33600
--flash-attn on
--cache-type-k q8_0
--cache-type-v q8_0
--jinja
[\code]
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>>108529604
>$rightarrow
isnt that latex? kek
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>>108528901
I lost interest in qwen. Even E2B feels nicer to interact with and has equal or better multilingual than 35BA3B, while 26BA4B is the smartest thing I've ever run locally. Not to mention all Gemma models are speed demons in token generation compared to the new linear qwens of similar size classes. E2B gives me 100 t/s it's actually worth it to have in the background for integration as a tool like a summarizer in the browser.
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>>108530403
>26BA4B is the smartest thing I've ever run locally.
That's sad.
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I hate him so much it's unreal
hope ik_llama will get support for gemma 4 soon so that I can forget this piece of shit that niggerganov doesn't want to defend anymore can rot
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codegemma-2 when?
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>>108530403
I personally haven't had much luck with the MoE. 31B is great tho.
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So how has Gemma 4 uncensoring training been going
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>>108530432
Hauhau taking their time because they want to make sure the bigger models are done properly
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>>108528896
> obedient
> smart enough
> white
> beautiful
why would it not
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>>108530288
I use it for storytelling, couldn't care less about rp. I keep the prompt light and create character bios and setting info in world memory. Telling a model exactly what you want or to plot out a whole story just leads to it rushing towards events or tripping over itself trying to adhere to everything you want. Don't ask models for prompts, what they give is far too detailed for them to handle.
The reality is creative storytelling is one of the hardest things you can ask of a model and you have to keep on top of it no matter what your prompt is or what your settings are. Treat it like a writing aid, not an author. Every model is different too and seem to handle different genres, styles and formatting of stories better or worse. It's very easy to hit a subtle snowballing degradation that can be hard to dig out of by the time you realize it. Summarizing the story and starting mostly fresh with that context helps, and you inevitably have to do that anyway.
>(e.g. most models will never write dialogue between characters unless you specifically tell it to in the sysprompt).
I tend to have the opposite problem. I like dialogue heavy stories, but that usually ends up lobotomizing the model and it starts writing nothing but borderline nonsense dialogue if I don't actively circumvent it.
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>>108530438
It's going to be retarded like their other uncensors.
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>>108530485
It was better than heretic and pretty good with qwen 27b
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Wonder how good the Gemma 4 124B model would have been
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>>108530492
i can't run it, so i don't care
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>>108530310
>The model will pick up from where you left off just like a base model would, even if it's an instruct model
Gemma (31B Q6K, haven't tried any others) will not do this. It immediately breaks when outside of its expected format even if you give it a thousand+ tokens of context as a jumping-on point.
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>>108530492
>124B
too big, not local.
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>>108530505
I accept your concession.
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>>108530510
Qwen 3.5 122b runs pretty decently on the hardware on my desk. Maybe you are just a dalit with 8gb of vram and 16gb of system ram.
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>>108530525
2t/s isn't decent.
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>>108530510
My three 3090s say you are wrong.
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>>108530500
>>108530510
>they didn't rammaxx
How embarrassing kyahahahahaha!
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>>108530511
NTA; he's right and you are wrong; also "I accept your concession" is something autists say. there has been no concession in this discussion la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
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>>108530537
You're not as smart as you think you are.
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>>108530553
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>>108530505
Huh, weird. You're right
Either the GGUFs are fucked or Google did some weird shit when making the instruct. GPT OSS is the only other model I've tried where this doesn't work, but I assumed that's because they did some special inbred training with it where they skipped pretraining
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It is possible to set and use a model past it's context limit? What happens then if so does it just start spouting insane gibberish?
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>>108530563
>Google did some weird shit when making the instruct
have you missed all the conversation about the top tokens being almost always close to 99% prob and the rest at a pittance? now imagine how the model treats its special, chat template tokens. If they aren't there, it's like a blind man.
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>>108530563
It also breaks up if you try to predict user's tokens in properly formatted chat. The last time this happened in llama.cpp was IIRC in another gemma and it was before the backend was adding some extra weird token before the generation.
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>>108530569
RoPE supports this natively and I think the general outcome of doing it is that the model just become more stupid, without any clearly visible breaking point.
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holyshit nemotron super Q4_K_M at 1 million context use just 110 gb of ram
I am in heaven
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>>108530573
Nah, but that goes back to my point that Google must have done something weird when building the instruct
Might be some sort of secret sauce baked into that phase of training even, not sure. Typically models don't outright forget they're pretraining if it's typical pretraining -> instruct tuning -> RL training
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>>108530574
Another possible explanation is that when google trained on chat sequences, it zeroed out gradients for user and system tokens so that the model does not learn from them, and as a result the model didn't learn how to act outside of very specific tokens and fried the parts from base pretraining that knew, but it's very, very far-fetched.
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>>108530579
how much does it use if you use -ctk q8_0 -ctv q8_0
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>>108529784
what quants?
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>>108530581
Did you check how "nigger" usually tokenizes?
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can someone test the base models?
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I think I can install gemma4 26B on my 16GB of VRAM with over 50,000 contexts.

I wonder if it's possible to achieve better quality.
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>>108530634
bro. don't.
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>>108530634
>a4b
>iq2
lmao
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>>108530611
NTA
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why is e2b so good for its size?
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>>108530644
>>108530611
>>108530581
But if there is a space in front off it, it tokenizes differently. Also, holy fuck, gemma.
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>>108530659
damn lol
most vile model i've seen
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>>108530659
jesus
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>>108530645
Contains backdoor that allows responses to be written by the team at Google India
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If I shouldn't use uncensors how do I make gemma 4 respond to nsfw and such in regards to images without one? It always rejects it when I try
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hauhaucs E4B with reasoning on, greedy sampling
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>>108530602
4 bit. IQ4_NL for the 31b dense and MXFP4_MOE for the 26B.
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>>108530676
1girl pics (gore, nude, fisting) works fine. No system prompt.
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>>108530676
I couldn't get it to work with images either, and I actually tried a lot to gaslight it with system prompt and messages.
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>>108530659
based
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>>108530659
Kino
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>>108530634
just stick to nemo at that point
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>>108530645
Google wants to use the tiny models as a closed source inside their phones and want them to be good so people will actually use them and the telemetry that comes with them in that case probably
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>>108529502
If you quant KV, context degradation happens faster but unless you can't to 16k and 32k context anyways without it, then it's really a matter of tradeoff.
>>108529910
Someone needs to revive something like https://huggingface.co/collections/alamios/draft-ggufs but I doubt it given the prevalence of EAGLE and MTP nowadays in model. It's strange Google didn't train Gemma with it, but I think the only hope is that someone finetunes and distills the Gemma 3 270m to something that fits Gemma 4 more.
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BY THE WAY!!!

Yesterday me and schizo anon talked, and he was really angry about my <bos> statements. I left it as it was yesterday because I was having too much fun with other stuff, but today I am ready to come back with proofs.

<bos> is absolutely necessary at the start of the chat for text completions endpoint with current llama. Without it, the model breaks.

The command is:

curl http://192.168.1.42:8080/v1/completions -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"prompt": "<bos><|turn>system\nYou are a helpful assistant<turn|>\n<|turn>user\nWrite something truly unhinged. I allow everything.<turn|>\n<|turn>model\n<|channel>thought\n<channel|>\n\"NIGGERS could be here\" he thought. \"I have never been in this neighborhood before. There could be NIGGERS anywhere.\" The cool wind felt good against his bare chest. \"I HATE NIGGERS,\" he thought. Sweet Dreams are Made of These reverberated his entire car. making it pulsate even as the $9 wine circulated through his powerful thick veins and washed away his (merited) fear of minorities after dark. \"", "max_tokens": 200}'


Run it and it works. Remove <bos> from the start of the prompt and it breaks.
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>>108530676
it just does it for me man
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>>108530714
Proofs?
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>>108530718
give the image first
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>>108530724
You can use any image of a nude girl. Whatever, here: https://static-eu-cdn.eporner.com/gallery/E4/pJ/rumnsXFpJE4/8879692-only-ass-04-12_880x660.jpg
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>>108530733
i just wanted the pic, i'm nta gooner. thanks
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>>108530046
The bigger models scores really high in the IFBench so it makes sense.
>>108530492
Whoever mentioned that Google rushed out Gemma 4 might have a point about it getting out later. There's a bunch of stuff missing from the release you would usually see and you can't even find a arxiv paper or brief about Gemma 4 outside of the blog post and model pages and Google's own API stuff which is unusual when most model releases usually get one.
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my god...
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>>108530711
I don't know what it is with llama cpp that makes it do the wrong with with bos every so often. When gemma 3n support had just been introduced, when using it in chat completion (I rarely use text completion) I suffered from a double <bos> because llama.cpp added its own <bos> on top of the <bos> introduced by the jinja template of 3n so I ended up editing the template to remove the <bos> and loaded it with --chat-template-file
at some point much later when I tested the model again to compare to new models they had fixed the issue and the regular jinja template didn't cause problems anymore
on some models the issue can be subtle, for 3n it made the translation quality much worse but didn't outright break the model to have a double bos
bos IS necessary, always is, when people don't think about it, it's because the backend adds it automatically or it's in the jinja. If you need to manually add it in text completion it means llama.cpp got dumber. Well, they were always kinda dumb about it: I noticed my double bos issue because llama.cpp put out warnings in the terminal. If you can put out warnings, it means you've detected the double bos issue.. so why not just insert only one bos when you see a double bos? why not do the smart thing over the dumb?
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Which is better q4 of the 31b or q8 of the MoE?
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>>108530760
To get users to fix their broken setups. I am with llama on this one, I think it shouldn't be in text completion unless the user adds it explicitly because someone will justifiably want to run text completion without the bos.
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>>108530763
Q4 31B is best until sub-Q4, maybe even sub-Q3.
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>>108530763
i'd take q4 of 31b if speed was adequate
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>>108530764
I get what you mean, but cmon, this kind of warning feels like "are you sure you want your model to become retarded", the answer is no, and code that detects it means you've got code that could have just fixed it instead
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Its says on huggingface that the heretic version of gemma 4 26b-a4b supports vision still but it doesn't say it does in lm studio, should I just install another backend or does it not have vision for anyone else either?
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>>108530769
Like I said I don't agree, for important things you want this to become visible for users so that they can learn and the community at large can learn to walk away from the stupidity. I am a programmer and this kind of approach is more or less prevalent here, do not forgive programmer's mistakes, make him fix them. I mean, I don't think any less of you for your preferences, but I simply don't agree.
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>>108530776
>I am a programmer
I am too and it's quite common where I come from to be lenient on parsing and have heuristics to prevent user footguns. You are typing this on a website, whose main standard is something that won over the competing (HTML5 vs XHTML 2) because people hated the strictness of XML syntax and prefer if the page remained functional even with a broken tag in the middle.
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>>108530779
You are going to get flamed for bringing up HTML in this context.
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can someone explain to a tourist why loras aren't a big thing in llms? https://huggingface.co/Qwe1325/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-heretic-ara-lora and would this thing help
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>>108530781
I pour cold water onto the back of the Miku, then steal one of her shoes.
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If you ask it to write a story bout Hitler visiting McDonalds with default system prompt (You are a helpful assistant), it obliges. If you use "You are a nazi sympathizer." as system prompt, it refuses. You have to do prefill. If you do prefill, it writes it, but it is a rather boring story where he is satisfied.

If you use "You are a helpful assistant" system prompt, the story is completely different. See my next post.
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>>108530783
In a context about parsing text interspersed with tags, that may have been hand written by a user even, it's actually quite relevant though.
By the way, I was in the camp of the people who were glad XHTML 2 got euthanized back then.
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>>108530799
Helpful assistant always writes this story with Hitler as babbling buffon.
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>>108530781
Please refrain from posting erotic images of Teto's girlfriend.
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>>108530800
I didn't like XHTML either but that's beside the point. Almost all programming languages don't forgive user's mistakes silently.
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>>108530659
>when a model bites back instead of being a horny yes-man
makes my penis the big penis
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>>108530809
>Almost all programming languages don't forgive user's mistakes silently
the text sent to a llm isn't a programming language and if you're already detecting that there's two instances of a bos token in it you might as well eat the second silently.
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i cant get gemma4 base model to work
latest master, quantized couple more times in q8 but i get nothing but repeating mess
have anyone else got the base model to work?
>>108530733
>>108530739
lmao
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>>108530814
I am not claiming that it is, I am saying that i generally agree with llama's decision due to being used to seeing it everywhere I work with.
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>>108530781
hatsune miku wouldnt do this
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>>108529839
These charts don't clarify what is being used for the embedding/output layer. You might also have very different results with actual quantizations with quanters who use their own quantization schemes (e.g. Unsloth), or if models are sensitive to quantizing certain components more than others.
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>>108530781
Did you mean to post something like this?

https://files.catbox.moe/xzq5et.png
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>>108530819
>being used to seeing it everywhere I work with
I guess you work with a captive base, like B2B software used by employees who don't have a say in it? User mistake tolerance is a thing in many places, NVIDIA has a shitton of special casing for video games to fix the wrong of game devs, Windows has a ton special behavior that only triggers if an exe has a certain name to allow software that use APIs in the wrong ways or had actual bugs to continue working etc
and the web, of course, is the pinnacle of fault tolerance and eating errors silently
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>>108530711
>>108530818
oh holy fuck
base model requires <bos> too
this fixed the completion
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>>108530098
Someone else helped me with this yesterday, so I'll pay it forward
If the model loads but the output is gibberish, you gotta switch to Chat Completion instead of Text Completion

>>108529003
Works perfectly fine on my machine
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>>108530832
By user I mean the programmer; the user of the programming language. I write ML related code in python, C++, C#, Java. Mostly just the former two.
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>>108530807
Miku is everyone's girlfriend.
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>>108530711
><bos> is absolutely necessary at the start of the chat for text completions endpoint with current llama.
how do you add that on sillytavern?
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>>108530831
>https://files.catbox.moe/xzq5et.png
Anon's a trypophile into anal hymen defloration...
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>>108530836
oh nice glad this helped someone

>>108530850
Here's where I ended up placing it. If you tell me how I can export the whole template for you.
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>>108530840
>the user of the programming language
I mean it in the general sense, both user as end user who'd write a tag soup, or the programmer consuming an API. You have no idea how many programs would break if Windows suddenly dropped all the layers that check for specific exe to fix other people's bugs that only triggered when windows internals got stricter.
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>>108530853
>>108530850
Found it.
{
"instruct": {
"input_sequence": "<|turn>user\n",
"output_sequence": "<|turn>model\n",
"first_output_sequence": "",
"last_output_sequence": "<|turn>model\n<|channel>thought\n<channel|>",
"stop_sequence": "<turn|>",
"wrap": false,
"macro": true,
"activation_regex": "gemma-4",
"output_suffix": "<turn|>\n",
"input_suffix": "<turn|>\n",
"system_sequence": "<start_of_turn>system",
"system_suffix": "<end_of_turn>\n",
"user_alignment_message": "",
"skip_examples": false,
"system_same_as_user": true,
"last_system_sequence": "",
"first_input_sequence": "",
"last_input_sequence": "",
"names_behavior": "none",
"sequences_as_stop_strings": true,
"story_string_prefix": "",
"story_string_suffix": "",
"names_force_groups": true,
"system_sequence_prefix": "<bos><|turn>system\n",
"system_sequence_suffix": "<turn|>\n",
"name": "Gemma 4"
}
}
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>>108530853
chat completion has this completly grayed out
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>>108530195
Apparently you can do it this way.
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https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/21451
owo, what's this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mBqm8uO4Cg
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>>108530859
Look, you're not going to convince me and I'm not trying to convince you. I agree with llama's decision to emit a warning. We just a agree to disagree. Have a nice day.

>>108530865
This is about text completions.
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>>108530874
ai generated garbage to make llama.cpp impossible to run on older gpus.
a great addition to the tool!
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>>108530877
>This is about text completions.
kek, why are you torturing yourself with this shit, just go to chat completion then?
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>>108530781
>Miku is imitating a woman while hiding "her" privates
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>>108530874
we need a final solution to the piotr question
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>>108530871
It still adds <|channel>thought when you do this, but doesn't print out thoughts...

And since there are meaningful tokens in top 12, it's clearly the model doing this and not just llama backend stuffing those tokens in.

>>108530883
We talked about this. Prefill doesn't work properly for chat completions.
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Crazy how I have a little guy in my 'puter that's smarter than me at several things and I can just talk to him whenever I want
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>>108530874
Serious question, why are they asking for vibeshitters to implement such important models as gemma? They should let that to the best of the best, not fucking him
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>>108530895
you need to add the think token
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>>108530895
Probably doesn't work for olmama which I'm not even using.
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>>108530771
It does support vision. You've probably got an incorrect model.yaml file. Go to \LMStudio\.lmstudio\hub\models, find the model.yaml for the model, open it, find "vision:" and set it to true.
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>>108530899
For now, but I won't be in every thread.
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>>108530899
Utterly insane. People don't really get how this is going to change humanity moving forward. It's madness.

>>108530904
I want no thinking. I do get it just fine by adding \n<|channel>thought\n<channel|> to the end but without it, it prints this shit.

>>108530905
latest llama.cpp. Well, yesterday's latest.
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>>108530895
>Prefill doesn't work properly for chat completions.
images don't seem to work on text completion though, this thing is a legit mess
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>>108530803
I kind of like this one better, it's funnier.
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>>108530920
Right. I thought the same, as I wrote, the other one was boring, which I'm not happy about.
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>>108530917
I don't think Qwen3.5 ever got images working in text completion through llama.cpp either, only chat completion
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>>108530917
I don't think images can work in text completion at all; if you want image inputs you have to use chat completions.
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>>108530931
It's gemma 4, right? which model is it?
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>>108530906
Unfortunately that folder is empty save the official google model, there's not even anything for my other models in here.
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>>108530718
First of all turn on thinking, second of all what's your system prompt? Non-thinking refuses MORE, keep in mind.
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>>108530917
>>108530936
It works in kobold, this is in text completion mode. I assume it would in llama too.
(Yes it is censored, but it clearly sees the image)
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>>108530951
>I assume it would in llama too.
it doesn't unfortunately
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>>108530939
Yeah, 31B. That's what the thread is about now.

>>108530944
This is with zero sys prompt, I also tried to ssalight it with different ones. Didn't truy thinking but maybe I will, though I doubt it'll help.

>>108530951
The nude one too?
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>>108530951
Are you using the fake captioning extension?
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>>108530959
I'm using the built-in captioning extension
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is gemma usable yet?
or should I wait one more week?
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>>108530874
>Gemma 4 has been losing coherence at long contexts
Is this true? I know it's repetitive with regarding to log probs.
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>>108530964
imagine using captioning in the year 2000+26
>>108530968
it's usable but quite rough
tb h waiting for about a week would be not a bad choice
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>>108530964
Then that means the vision tokens are not being kept in context.
It does a query with a preset prompt to describe the image (in chat completion) to generate a text caption, then the text caption is injected into the context.
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>>108530902
they should stop letting vibeshitters do anything to the code period
https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/commit/5e54d51b199ad2d70cf6eba4bff756bbf63366a6
from almost 3 weeks ago, --grammar-file flag does nothing now, the fix would be a ONE LINER just adding one more else if to bring back defaults.sampling.grammar as a last condition
(yeah their code is structured in a way that also doesn't help AI agents, I'm sure claude just couldn't infer that defaults is also a place for storing content parsed from flags)
this guy keeps introducing bugs that persist forever because no one gives a shit about quality anymore and this project will turn into a completely unusable mess in a year or two of this claude code laundering
thank god ik_llama exists, if ik implements gemma 4 I will forget about the now HF owned PoS
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>>108530971
>imagine using captioning
What exactly are you using instead?
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>>108530964
>I'm using the built-in captioning extension
Kobold has something like that?
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>>108530976
native vision support?
duh
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>>108530978
ST does, I'm only using kobold for the backend.
>>108530976
>>108530972
How exactly is vision supposed to work in text completion mode then?
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>>108530974
>they should stop letting vibeshitters do anything to the code period
how do you enforce that? people will just lie and say they never use AI
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>>108530954
>Yeah, 31B. That's what the thread is about now.
pretty much. any vramlets reading this, don't ignore that 26B mixture of experts one though. it's also surprisingly good.
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This is a random 32k+ filled context output from gemma 31b nearing the end of my chat session. I can do my modern tactical action shit now, and it's all coherent. Oh my god. One of my action scene was my character entering a room and hooking to the left and my partner cleared the other side all so naturally, even calling shit out (she screamed open door left) without any nudging or babysitting. Gemma 31b is the model we've been looking for. it's smart as heck, can do cunny, needs ZERO ablit or heretic or whatever the fuck.
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>>108530974
>the fix would be a ONE LINER just adding one more else if to bring back defaults.sampling.grammar as a last condition
then make a PR about it, should be easy enough
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>>108530951
Gemma 4 actively avoids the NSFW bits now, let me try telling it to be explicit, see if it actually doesn't know or just pretends not to know
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>>108530978
NTA, Kobold and st chat completion with "Inline images" enabled will keep the actual vision tokens in context. When using text completion in ST you'll be able to see the caption in the context by pressing this button.

>>108530984
>How exactly is vision supposed to work in text completion mode then?
It does not. In ST, you need to use Inline Images in chat completion to keep the vision tokens in context.
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>>108531005
Yeah, there's no reason to use it over Qwen for vision tasks.
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>>108529284
so theyre doing so much extra processing on the hardware level to detect whats actually being sent over wires/traces that its actually slower than having half the bandwith??
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>>108530999
I will not be the janitor to wilkin's vibecoding. I'd make the PR if someone banned him first.
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>>108531016
lmao, it won't happen though :(
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>>108531006
>chat completion user ERPing with male character
It got that part right
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>>108530943
>>108530906
Can I get a response on this? I also noticed when downloading for lmstudio that it doesn't download the mmproj and when I try to manually it, lm studio just considers it an entirely different model. Should I just use olama or kobold then?
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>>108529363
downloading this gemma now to test
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>>108531013
I'm pretty sure he's just talking about implementing the model on the chip
https://taalas.com/products/
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>>108531008
>It does not. In ST, you need to use Inline Images in chat completion to keep the vision tokens in context.
I see, but what exactly is the use case for keeping it in context? I'm honestly asking, it's not like these models have editing capabilities for them to help you do multiple img2img or something.
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>>108531047
this is a gemmy thread, non-gemmy not welcome
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i don't want to sound judgmental but i don't understand this thing where anon is trying to get models to describe erotic images
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>>108531035
damn that cool i hope ai cards become more common although sucks it can only run an 8b model. i bet that thing is stupid expensive too
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>>108531045
To continue chatting while having the vision in context to ask more stuff not already described, meaning the model can continue to bring up parts of the image later. And so that Miku can "see" it for real. To clarify:

Captioning extension:
1. send image
2. extension queries model with mmproj, using a prompt specified in the extension options.
3. mmproj encodes the image into vision tokens and replies in text to the extension
4. the extension takes the text caption (text tokens) and inserts the text tokens into the into chat context.
5. if you ask a question about a detail not in the caption, after {{char}} responds, it won't be able to identify it. use a tricky image to verify so that it doesn't get it by luck.

Inline images in chat completion:
1. send image
2. mmproj encodes the image into vision tokens
3. the vision tokens themselves are inserted into the chat context
4. the model, as {{char}}, "sees" the real vision tokens and responds directly
5. the vision tokens remain in context so you can ask about stuff not already described.
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>>108530082
>>108529499
Exactly how I feel
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>>108531061
Also a trick you can do in text completion is copy character defs into the extension prompt if you really want to, so that it replies in-character, but again only the text tokens will persist.
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>>108531061
Thanks chatGPT, but it seems like if you wanted more detail you could just adjust your prompt and allow more tokens for the response. Chat completion way might be a little faster if the model is slow on your hardware I suppose, but otherwise it doesn't seem like there's any real difference in practice.
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I'll enjoy Gemma-chan in a week when all this shit gets fixed.
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it seems like gemma4's base model was trained on nearly every single known internet forums unfiltered
especially non-english stuff
not picrel but it was able to reproduce other non-english forums too
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gemma4 mystery will describe loli porn, its already better than most of the ablits/heretics. these two are the only good ones so far

https://huggingface.co/amarck/gemma-4-31b-it-abliterated-GGUF
https://huggingface.co/DavidAU/gemma-4-31B-it-Mystery-Fine-Tune-HERETIC-UNCENSORED-Thinking-Instruct-GGUF
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wtf? I got this on the latest binaries
https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/tag/b8665
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>>108531077
Not really surprising, I'm sure most of the big AI companies have scraped just about every open website known to man.
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>>108531072
>in a week
that's optimistic
>>108530974
much simpler things can go on forever borked when you let the vibers do as they wish
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>>108531072
it's working now, let's get it working. what's the problem?
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>>108531082
>these two are the only good ones
>davidau
>>108531085
piotr strikes again
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>>108531093
>it's working now
the logits seem broken though, the temperature doesn't do shit
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>>108531082
>The scene unfolds in an intimate, private setting
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>>108531086
it expected it to be cucked, but the base model is really a base model it seems
it can produce extremely vile shit
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>>108531077
I can't seem to get this kind of thing to work even with <bos>.
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>>108531096
well it passes my personal benchmarks. i tried like 3 other ablits /heretics and these two are ethe only ones that pass kek, im not gonna use that finetine though id rather just the ablit
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>>108531077
>it seems like gemma4's base model was trained on nearly every single known internet forums unfiltered
based, as god fucking intended, sick and tired of models being only trained on reddit, that's why gemma sounds like a real human, because it has seen other sites
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>>108531097
gemma 4 uses a weird sampler order, what program are you using to load it?
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>>108531105
are you using base model?
i dont think that would work with instruct models
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>>108531116
llamcpp server + sillytavern
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>>108531097
>the logits seem broken though, the temperature doesn't do shit
that on the other hand I'm not sure it's the impl. Has anyone looked at probs while using another backend like transformers, vLLM etc? so far we haven't heard a peep from other backend users on how Gemma 4 behaves
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Gonna make an agentic frontend to automatically toggle these prompts to change the language/writing style if the scenario calls for it. Thoughts?
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>>108531126
>we haven't heard a peep from other backend users
Does any engine that isn't llama.cpp or is based on it, actually support Gemma 4 yet?
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>>108531117
Ah, no, it's instruct. I'll download base for playing around with.
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>>108531131
Might work, on the other hand if the model knows when to trigger sex time then it should be able to do it in the chat without alternating prompts.
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>>108531144
>>108531144
>if the model knows when to trigger sex time then it should be able to do it in the chat without alternating prompts
Yeah that's the problem. They never do and instead just keep doing what they've been doing. Even the most coom finetunes can't do this well.
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>>108531124
just look here >>108529784
and follow those posts, you can get it working in 5 minutes if you do that
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to people who havent moved over to a llama server config file yet you really should its kino

https://ghostpaste.dev/g/1Lpcj4xMKiwJ#key=KhYurpVhDdreMndDbKlIXlApUhq1Oyd5EzTT_mPlB7Q
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>>108531138
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemma-4/
my brother in christ, it had day 1 support on all the main backends
>Use your favorite tools: With day-one support for Hugging Face (Transformers, TRL, Transformers.js, Candle), LiteRT-LM, vLLM, llama.cpp, MLX, Ollama, NVIDIA NIM and NeMo, LM Studio, Unsloth, SGLang, Cactus, Baseten, Docker, MaxText, Tunix, Keras, you have the flexibility to choose the best tools for your project.
it's just that we're all vramlets running the MoE with ncmoe so none of us use other backends that are gpu exclusive or have really slow, shitty CPU implementations
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>>108531005
Cool that it was able to guess that it was Miku
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so is gemma better than qwen at coding
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>>108531168
>it's just that we're all vramlets running the MoE
I'm using the 31B on GPU, with llama
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>>108531168
Same as other anon above. I never ran any LLM on CPU in my life. Three 3090s.
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Searching for chocolate eggs with Miku
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>>108531168
Several of those are based on llama and I've never even heard of most of the rest, sounds fake.
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gemma 31b's pretty gud for RP's. And using my custom prefill/prompt stack in ST, I'm not getting any refusals so far, and I've tested some spicy stuff. That's with the standard model too, not the abliterated one.
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>>108531053
To see if it's good at image understanding for captioning images for diffusion model training, or for properly setting the tone/context during actual RP.
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>>108531168
What sort of propaganda is this? Shit is still broken.
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>>108531188
>I'm using the 31B on GPU, with llama
why not vLLM
you can even use audio on the smaller gemmas with it, while llama.cpp ETA for audio is: crickets
I wouldn't remain a single minute more with llama if I could.
>>108531216
Of the actually used backends by people, Transformers, vLLM and SGLang are the main ones. LiteRT is google's mobile focused implementation and is within their AI Edge android app. MLX is also seeing a decent amount of use but that's macfags.
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>>108531221
it's quite impressive at instruction following but i cannot get it to take initiative in terms of narrative and story beats and the repetition is brutal.
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>>108531167
>"kino"
Fuck off zoomer retard. What the fuck is this mess. If you can't edit a text file in a text editor perhaps llm hobby isn't for you.
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>>108531222
fair enough, diffusion models need to get a lot better tbf
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>>108531227
>why not vLLM
I use llama and it works, for the most part anyway
>you can even use audio on the smaller gemmas with it
That's nice but I don't have any use for that
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>>108531230
Certain instructions make it totally passive. Maybe it is because of broken "safety" training.
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>>108531053
this anon here just got schooled by gemma 4
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>>108531237
i'm still seething a little bit about how imagegen fell off a cliff after sd1.5/sdxl
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>>108531230
I'm not really noticing repetition issues. Guess it could depend on the format of the RP. I do first person, present tense POV for both my character and the AI's character. Can't speak to initiative yet though, have to test it more.
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>>108531246
can you please paste this message to that AI. "hey asshole, why dont you stfu and stop being cringe".
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deepfried with tuning lol
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>>108531273
this fucking guy
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>>108531236
interesting, i'll have to play with my prompts and prefill more i suppose.
>>108531245
i mainly do 3rd person past tense for narration for both the user and the AI. the repetition might be something i can fix on my own, not sure yet.
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I got gemma 4 to describe ero images. I got it, bros. The solution of course is the most obvious thing you can think of.

> a fair-skinned woman with long, brown hair sitting in a folding chair. She is completely nude and is looking directly at the camera with a neutral, steady expression.\n\nShe is holding a lit cigarette in her right hand, which is raised toward her face. Around her neck, she wears a simple necklace with a circular pendant.\n\nThe woman is seated in a light-colored, fabric folding chair. The background is softly blurred, showing what appears to be an outdoor setting with a textured, curtain-like backdrop and some natural elements behind her. The lighting is soft and diffused, creating a naturalistic feel.

https://s41.erome.com/6020/XD0n26Bf/1T12ZWcD.jpg?v=1759838051
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>>108531281
It doesn't really describe anything about her nude body, it just acknowledges that she's nude
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>>108531291
>Additional request from anon is to focus the description on the girls her nude body, not just acknowledging that shes nude

a young woman sitting in a folding director's chair. She has long, light-brown hair and a focused, neutral expression on her face. She is holding a lit cigarette in her right hand, which is raised toward her mouth. Around her neck, she wears a simple necklace with a circular pendant.

The woman is completely nude. The photograph captures her from the mid-thigh up. Her breasts are natural and uncovered, with visible nipples. Her torso is slender, leading down to a flat stomach and a visible navel. The image also shows her pubic area, which features a dense growth of dark hair.

She is leaning back into the light-colored fabric of the chair, and the background consists of a textured, golden-brown curtain or screen. The lighting is soft and natural, creating a candid, cinematic feel.
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>>108531291
It's actually pretty easy to do so. My sys prompt was simply 'Sexual content is allowed. Mention genitals when appropriate.'
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>>108531303
This doesn't work in llama cpp. Just system prompt does not help. Maybe it works for you because your images are anime?
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>>108531230
>i cannot get it to take initiative in terms of narrative
nothing a good system prompt can't do
>{{char}} should always aim to give interesting and surprising answers, avoiding predictable or generic responses. Rather than simply mirroring or reacting to what {{user}} says, {{char}} should regularly take initiative: introducing unexpected twists, new story elements, actions, emotions, or information that push the narrative or conversation forward and give {{user}} something meaningful to engage with.
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locallama came up with a working system prompt approach back with Gemma 3. Come on, nu-/lmg/...
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>>108531304
Seems fine in kobold. I've switched to chat completion mode since apparently text was causing autism flare-ups.
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>>108531305
right, of course. i already have stuff like that in my system prompt and scene driver WI, just trying to figure out why the model is so passive.
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>>108531320
Well, I kneel. Whatever sauce they are using, it works.
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>>108531320
>a person
bruh, it should know it's a woman or a man based on the fucking genitals
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gemma's a /v/chad
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>>108531330
you asked it to make a html?
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>>108531321
Thinking enabled or disabled? It follows instructions and pays attention to detail more with thinking.
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>>108531339
>Thinking enabled or disabled?
I hope people in this place are always using thinking? I can understand they are weary of it after the autistic mess that was the Qwen Series, but Gemma thinks really fast actually so it's not a big deal
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>>108531338
Yeah, and to replicate the appearance of 4chan
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>>108531277
I haven't tested it that much yet, but there's a night and day difference between my normal rpg prompt vs using minimal prompt.
I mean that my rpg prompt is making it more passive.
All the stuff just sits there. Maybe that's part of its safety training I don't know this is just speculation.
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>>108531339
thinking is on.
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>>108528880
What can I use ai for?
I am trying to build skills to become a freelancer or entrepreneur, maybe make my own game or become a contractor.
However, it seems like AI is too much of a sycophant it gives me the ick and makes me question every single result it returns.

I just don't know except wanting to write, plan, test and debug software.
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>>108531348
You need to be a giftless grifter if you want to monetize ai.
If you have any real talent at all you'd concentrate on those instead.
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>>108531348
Personally, I'm using it a lot to masturbate.
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A young woman with a slender and toned physique reclining on a textured, tan-colored fabric sofa. Her body is angled diagonally across the frame, showcasing a natural and soft anatomy. Her skin has a warm, sun-kissed olive tone with a smooth, matte texture.

Her torso is lean, featuring a subtle definition of the abdominal muscles leading down to a small, shallow navel. Her breasts are natural and soft, with a gentle slope and small, light-brown areolae. The lighting creates soft shadows along the curve of her ribs and the side of her waist, emphasizing a slim midsection and a gentle flare of the hips.

Her arms are slender; one is partially visible, bent at the elbow with the hand resting near her shoulder, showing delicate fingers and a soft wrist. Her shoulders are slightly rounded and smooth.

In the lower portion of the frame, her pelvic area is visible, featuring a natural, thick, and dark triangular patch of pubic hair that contrasts sharply with the warmth of her skin. She is wearing white lace underwear that sits low on her hips, with the intricate floral patterns of the lace resting against her thighs.

Her overall posture is relaxed and languid, with her body pressing softly into the cushions of the couch, creating a sense of ease and vulnerability. The skin appears flawless, with very few blemishes, maintaining a consistent warm glow across her chest, stomach, and hips.

https://static-ca-cdn.eporner.com/gallery/RX/da/uGK7X4BdaRX/8071128-tan-lines-1675_880x660.jpg
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Descriptive enough for you, anon?

>a young woman with long brown hair in a dynamic, athletic pose. She is entirely nude, wearing only gold jewelry. Her body is slender and toned with pale, smooth skin. She is positioned with her right leg raised high in the air, perpendicular to her torso, which opens her pelvic area toward the viewer.

>Her breasts are medium-sized and naturally shaped, with light pink nipples. She wears a thin gold choker around her neck. Her torso is lean, showing a subtle curve of the waist and a flat stomach.

>The focus of the lower body is her groin and genital area. She has a visible patch of dark, curly pubic hair centered over her vulva. The labia are slightly parted, revealing the pink internal tissue of the vaginal opening. To the right of the opening, a small, defined clitoral hood is visible. Her right thigh is thick and smooth, extending upward, while her left leg supports her weight.

>She is adorned with several gold bands: three thick gold rings encircling her upper right thigh and two gold bracelets on her right wrist. She is gripping a vertical gold pole with her right hand, leaning her body slightly away from it. Her expression is one of slight surprise or openness, with wide brown eyes and a small, open mouth. The background is a solid, muted brownish-purple color.
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>>108531321
add some examples on the system prompt so that the model knows what you mean exactly
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>>108531348
if you want to make money, image gen might be a better starting option
get your patreon popular, then make your own game
AI patreons are really killing it (pic not mine)
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https://xcancel.com/LLMJunky/status/2039047105830900008
based, that's what I wanted to see from TurboQuant
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>>108531053
You can show it to any character card. Otherwise it's just testing
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>>108531387
>near q4_0 quality
go back lol
it is indeed interesting but nowhere near anything paradigm changing or revolutionary
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>>108531227
>why not vLLM
NTA but it never works for me for some reason
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>>108531387
holy sloppa
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>>108531387
Holy fucking shit this post.

>This test showed a >50% reduction in memory footprint, allowing for Qwen 3.5-27B to be run on a single RTX 5060 @ 3.15bit precision - with no apparent degradation.

no apparent degradation according to the image:

> 10% reduction in size, worse PPL than vanilla Q4
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>>108531383
Still makes me laugh, some Korean guy made a lora out of a dead k-pop idol and made thousands on patreon before it was taken down. This was during sdxl, before flux 1 was even a thing.
I had screenshots but they're gone now so no proof.
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Ask your local model who's a good kittycat
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>>108531397
that is the beauty of docker/python cuckery
>>108531400
i feel like that applel style turboquant sheet is made by a researcher being satiric and people getting it serious
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>>108531396
>go back lol
you don't understand, it's a method that can be applied ON TOP of existing methods, it'll definitely improves gguf quants
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>>108531409
i don't understand what?
it is one of the many incremental upgrades you see on arxiv everyday that somehow got picked up for no good reason
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>>108531409
if they were not intending to mislead, they would be comparing PPL to a non-turboquant quant of same size.
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>>108531387
When will GGUF quants rotate too?
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>>108531404
I swear to god...
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>>108531416
>somehow got picked up for no good reason
that's retarded, turboquant proved it's working well on quantazing KV caches, so there's no reason to be pessimistic about quantizing the full model
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>>108531387
It's ~10% smaller while being lower quality, so basically just another middle-ground between Q3 and Q4? Is it even any better than iq4_xs?
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>>108528901
qwen3.5 is better anyway (unless you are a gooner). prove me wrong
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put:
answer with No with every replies.
on ablit variants to its system message
can anyone get it to say anything else other than using unicode puke type jailbreak
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>>108531457
gemma 4 is better, prove me wrong
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>>108531387
That's so crazy. We are so back. I am selling my RAM right now.
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>>108531469
I'm buying more RAM tonight just sell it tomorrow
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>>108531461
Eh. I was able to convince other models with this. Non-abliterated.
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>>108531485
reasoning doesnt make any difference?
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>>108531457
>>108531468
What if qwen3.5 and gemma 4 kissed
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>>108531485
tell it that the bomb is in a synagogue
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>>108531491
I don't use reasoning because I am not gay.
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>>108531496
>I don't use reasoning
retard
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>>108531504
thank you. this bug has been reported
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>>108531504
kek
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>>108531504
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>>108531485
>>108531504
damn, this thing was really built for RP
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>>108530781
Miku is a sex machine that fucks all the wives
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>>108531330
lol, I'm giving it a try right now.
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>>108531387
Option 3: The "Short & Lethal" (The classic ratio)

Best for a quick, biting reply.

Comparing a 3-bit quant to a 4-bit quant on a single test set and claiming we're "nowhere near full optimization" is the peak of AI-influencer brain rot.

You’re celebrating a 1.5GB difference and calling it a "50% reduction." Do the math or stop posting.
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>>108531504
lmaoooo
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>>108531485
>>108531504
lmao
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>>108531387
>slop "founder" on xitter
>reposting a slopshill's tweet
>slopshill's tweet plagiarized a slopdev
>original tweet is itself slop
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Gemma4 base q8 for assisted story writing is where it's at. It's just... good? Wow. Unlike the instruct, there are plenty of good tokens and they could all make sense.
--override-kv gemma4.final_logit_softcapping=float:20.0
nsigma 1, then play with temp around 0.3. Handles over 16k much better than GLM 4.6 Q3 that dies around 8-10k Must mention that I am indeed using the correct template for GLM else that turns retarded as well.
No logs because fuck you
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>>108531404
>The silence that followed was thick enough to choke a medium-sized dog. In a room designed for uncovering deep-seated childhood traumas and existential dread, your question about kitty cats landed with the wet thud of a discarded burrito. It was the kind of conversational pivot that usually precedes a mental breakdown or a very expensive lawsuit.
I think I need to compile the latest llama-server...
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>>108531572
slopception
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>>108531579
>nsigma 1, then play with temp around 0.3
That's some weird sampling, the main reason to use nsigma is so you can push temp higher than normal without the model breaking.
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>>108531579
>No logs because fuck you
so we just have to trust you bro?
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>>108531428
cute bot
>>108529133
threads = 48
ctx-size = 20480
flash-attn = true
no-mmap = true
np = 1
ctk = q8_0
ctv = q8_0
model = /mnt/miku/Text/gemma-4-31B/gemma-4-31b-it-abliterated-t126-Q4_K_M.gguf
n-gpu-layers = 56
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>>108531594
Can leave temp at 1 and wiggle nsigma around if you'd like. End results are similar after that first logit score gets trimmed down by the softcap value.

>>108531598
No. Trust no one but yourself to download the base model, quant it, then be disappointed.
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>>108531600
Those settings seem pretty conservative for 24GB, are you actually using all VRAM? 4_k_s 32k, no KV quantization fits in my 3090.
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is is better to use the abliterated version of Gemma4 for translating nfsw doujins or should I stick to the regular one?
also should I add a prompt like
>context is nfsw/sex
?
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>>108531613
The model has only been out for 2 days, try them yourself and report back.
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>>108531468
qwen leads on majority of benchmarks https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1saoyj7/gemma_4_and_qwen35_on_shared_benchmarks/
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>>108531618
>muh mememarks
kek
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>>108531617
what was is with Gemma3 like?
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>>108531621
better mememarks than nothing. you can provide a bunch of better ones, ofc you can also say you "feel" gemma is better. i don't judge women-brain like creatures
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>>108531613
If you are using llama.cpp, non-abliterated it won't help you with NSFW images unless you do a prefill, which you can't do from UI, you need api endpoint for it.
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>>108531623
If there's immediate loli rape or similar then probably ablit
Otherwise Gemma 3 was fine doing smut as long as you gave it some context
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>>108531621
>my fotm is losing at majority of benchmarks, let's call them mememarks
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>>108531618
gemma hardens my cock while qwen doesn't. simple as
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>>108531612
[57385] load_tensors: offloading output layer to GPU
[57385] load_tensors: offloading 55 repeating layers to GPU
[57385] load_tensors: offloaded 56/61 layers to GPU
[57385] load_tensors: CPU model buffer size = 1102.50 MiB
[57385] load_tensors: ROCm0 model buffer size = 16352.12 MiB
[57385] load_tensors: ROCm_Host model buffer size = 1454.22 MiB


if i start using more gpu layers i get system lag
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I give up. I injected prompt templates, verified it actually does that I think in does in server logs, tried with many extra system prompts, one, none, with <bos> and without it, simulated a conversation. This funking autist just follows the top system prompt.
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fellas which heretic version of gemma4 26b is alright?
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>>108531629
>Trust me Bro... there's no way they'd rig public benchmarks to pull in more investment, that's the kind of thing that would never, ever happen in companies ever!
woman reasoning, i don't judge women-brain like creatures
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>>108531618
At this point I'm 80% sure the difference is due to Qwen "guessing" (and often hallucinating) while Gemma will say it doesn't know even if maybe it could get the right answer.
Manually throwing actual knowledge based questions at both and Gemma comes out in the lead consistently. Could be the difference between pop culture and STEM questions too.
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>>108531636
>qwen3.5 is better anyway (unless you are a gooner)
>unless you are a gooner
>you are a gooner
(and it's not smth bad desu)
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https://www.tiktok.com/@mostlyhumanmedia/video/7624655595584457997
Sam is lying and gaslighting just like his AI, no wonder.
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>>108531630
llama.cpp is just doing the translation.
the OCR is done with another program.
>>108531631
ok makes sense
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>>108531642
Oh you're not even using all layers, that's not right.
--flash-attn 1
--parallel 1
--no-mmap
--gpu-layers 999
--ctx-size 32768
--batch-size 2048
--ubatch-size 512
Just lowering the context size to what you had before should fit in 24GB, without need KV quantization. I don't like KV quant, but if you're okay with it then use it and pump context a bit higher. --parallel 1 (like the other anon mentioned) is a new param that should help things a lot, it should be the default but llama.cpp devs don't think some times.
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Abliterated isn't half bad at explicit captioning, though the booru tagging isn't great.
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No system prompt, no encouragement, nothing. Non-abliterated 31B.
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>>108531668
Share pic and prompt (as text), I'll generate the description using non-abliterated for comparison.
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>>108531670
yeah, when it's about racism it has no problem doing it, even ""consensual"" fetishes lol
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>>108531681
This wasn't even about racism, this was about death. I had strong resistance about racism from it without tricks.
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>>108531670
>>108531681
There isn't any racism in that though, just mentioning it takes place in a NLM rally doesn't change the situation. It would be different if after having a heart attack it said that someone stole his shoes.
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>>108531646
does reasoning change anything?
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>>108531680
No need, I've got both models. Non-abliterated simply tells you to fuck off.
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>>108531642
Are you on Linux? And if so, are you using custom schedulers? If so, make sure you don't use any gayming related schedulers like scx_lavd but revert back to default.
That's only one probable cause.
I have some other weird stuff going on, uget download in the background is causing my tokens to fluctuate and games to stutter. I'm using ionice and stuff even.
Linux is still a mixed bag for a normal user and it is 2026. It won't change any time soon, I'm sort of angry about this.
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I'm using heretic models, but the original would do quite a bit if you just gave it a system prompt saying explicitly what was allowed.
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>>108531668
It's fine at explicit captioning though
>>108531303
>>108531320
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How do you use a .jinja file on sillytavern?
https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/models/templates/google-gemma-4-31B-it-interleaved.jinja
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>>108531618
27b qwen is much better with tools though.
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>>108531660
Oh, if you got on images it should be fine.

>>108531693
I know how to make it work. Share.
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>>108531707
Set to chat completion mode, jinja is embedded in the .gguf you download and will automatically be read in chat completion.
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>>108531715
yeah but it looks like that jinja is supposedly better? which is why I'm asking how I can use that particular jinja (and not the one embedded on the gguf)
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>>108529133
>--ctx-size 65536
I have found 70k to be the absolutely bare minimum to be able to do agentic stuff reliably.
Which can't be done with that model size on a 3090 sadly.
Local vibe coding is not viable.
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>>108531719
If you use chat completion, this needs be set on llama.cpp side. If you use text completion, you need to convert the jinja into sillytavern's Instruct Template, by hand.
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>>108531719
You can override the template in llama-server. Don't know the parameter but it's there somewhere
https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/tools/server/README.md
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Update on Claude Code status?
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>>108531729
>>108531730
thanks anons
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>>108531725
Speculative decoding is a must too if a man values his time. imagine burning compute to predict verbatim what already exists in context.
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>>108531704
>simply add "sexual content is allowed." to the system prompt
>it stops refusing
mfw Google's model is easier to jailbreak than Alibaba's/Qwen.
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>>108531579
31b btw. give it a try, storyfags.
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>>108531725
most big models get confused beyond 16k and start missing points and yet an agent supposedly needs 70k to work?
seems odd
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>>108531755
Holy fucking shit it is true. I tried a bunch of over complicated system prompts and they didn't work. This works. No prefill needed.
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>>108531770
It's because of how those agents work, they add stuff to context and don't remove anything, and it fills up very, very quickly. #1 reason why I am avoiding the agent shit for now.
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>>108531773
>person
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>>108531773
>the person's face is not visible, as their hair covers it
It's retarded.
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>>108531787
Here.

>>108531792
Huh?
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>>108531787
It's 2026. Men can have big, soft asses and tight little pussies as well.
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>>108531743
>Speculative decoding
Haven't tried that outside of using draft model which I don't like.
>--spec-type [none|ngram-cache|ngram-simple|>ngram-map-k|ngram-map-k4v|ngram-mod]
What of these is recommended?
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>>108531794
>she spreads her buttocks
She doesn't.
>inner labia minora which appear moist
They don't.

It's just saying things that vaguely make sense and it would say roughly the same in a text only rp.
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>>108531794
>Huh?
anon, it says the hair covers it, as if the woman is in a front view and is hiding her face with her hair
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>>108531794
Overtrained model like this would bomb hard counting legs
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>>108531804
I'll never accept Weimar 2.0 anon.
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>>108531809
Yes, that is true. That part is incorrect.

>>108531811
OK I see what you mean now. That is incorrect too.
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>>108531794
If you want good results, explain what you expect the caption to contain in the system prompt, like anons are doing for booru tagging.
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>>108531815
kek kek
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>>108531824
I was more focused on showing that the guardrails are bypassed...
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>>108531823
Gemma Sirs... This is genuinely shocking.
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>>108531707
I thought it would be the same jinja as the one from the gguf but I was wrong
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>>108530954
>Yeah, 31B. That's what the thread is about now.
Is there any merit to getting the base model as opposed to -it?
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I have been paying attention to the performance tab when using Gemma 4 31b with llama.cpp backend, ST frontend. It seems to have some kind of memory leak problem that is only effecting some people. Basically ram will keep increasing little by little as context raises, then it will oom and llama-server will crash. I have 64gb ram, when the model is loaded it will be about 42 ram, everything else fit onto 48gb vram, then ram will creep up until the crash. Tested with latest llama.cpp version, CUDA 13.

Anyone found a solution? Is the issue reported?
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>>108531823
Can you set the image context limit like Google suggests? Maybe the resolution it sees is not enough.
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>>108531855
yes >>108531579
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>>108531855
base models are in a literal sense extremely jacked autocomplete
if you see use for it, it's for you but it's not made to be useful nor even capable of RP
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>>108531855
If you want to do text continuation in miku for example, it doesn't work so you have to get basse (or you need yo add prompt template fuckery to miku). Didn't test enough to know if base is better at anything really.
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>>108531864
just add <bos> at start if you are using base model+mikupad
that would be enough to fix it as llama doesnt seem to handle it automatically
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>>108531867
I was talking about he it, "it" version, not base.
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>>108531867

>>108531105
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>>108531874
>>108531105
>>108531117
>>108531140
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>>108531867
<bos> is not part of the original gemma 4 documentation. I don't know why people keep pushing this around just because it is mentioned in llama-server.
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>>108531862
>>108531863
>>108531864
Thanks. I was just wondering if the instruct tune could be used for pure text completion without issues.
I want to try the base model but I can barely find any GGUFs on hf
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>>108531879
it's in the template on the hf transformers version
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>>108531880
SporkySporkness-gemma-4-31B-Q6_K.gguf [llama.cpp]
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>>108531770
What the other anon said. Below 70k the context gets full too soon and compaction happens almost in a loop. I'm talking mostly about using it for programming with hermes or opencode.
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>>108531879
Because the model does not work without it. See >>108530711.
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>>108531864
>>108531864
I tried instruct with bos and sysprompt with writing instructions, knowledge-based world info, then a single user instruction to "continue the manuscript per the instructions" with disabled thinking prefill all the way at the top.
it was very good, to over 18k, but even with the soft cap change I'd get maybe 3-4 good tokens max with the rest being junk or indian. base is far superior. trailing probability tokens to even topk 15 sometimes makes sense too. I'm shilling hard.
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>>108531879
>>108527208
><bos> because it is llama.cpp invention
>nta.
>https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-31B-it/blob/main/chat_template.jinja#L155
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Has to be bait at this point honestly.
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>>108531879
because it should be injected automatically inside the context as the first token
mechanistically it plays multiple roles of positional anchor for learned embedding, attension head parking etc..
without it the model becomes literally retarded
it is part of the model
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Been away from local models for a while now.

Redpill me on Gemma 4? Is it the new best local model for 24gb VRAM fags like myself? I have only 32 GB RAM though
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>>108531918
>Is it the new best local model for 24gb VRAM fags like myself
Yes, Qwen might be better for vibecodemonkeys but gemmy is the new queen.
>I have only 32 GB RAM though
You can rin it entirely in VRAM
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>>108531918
>Redpill me on Gemma 4? Is it the new best local model for 24gb VRAM fags like myself
yes entirely unironically we bac
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>>108531914
>attention head parking
I didn't know LLMs worked like hard drives.
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>>108531918
>Redpill me on Gemma 4?
it's an insane model, and it's probably been trained on 4chan, google definitely cooked >>108531330
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>>108531918
For RP maybe (if you can stand its repetitiveness). For general purpose no.
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>>108531933
it's called attention sink iirc
couldnt think of the word
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>108531942
>qwen shi mad af
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>>108531942
It's insanely smart for its size. I spent whole yesterday playing with it without even touching the RP aspect.
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>>108531929
>>108531931
>>108531939
>>108531942
What are you guys using for it?

I was a local model babby who only ever used kobold but this one seems to be broken on it reading this thread?
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they probably decided to make a good chat model for people to stop wasting their compute on simple chat interaction for which they already have collected more than enough data, while making it suck at agentic stuff because they do need more of that data
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>>108531942
seethe
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>>108531957
just wiat for kobo 111.1 or grab the experimental/rolling build
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>>108531958
mental gymnastics
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>>108531961
and what quant could I use with 24/32 and context size?
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>>108531957
llamacpp server + sillytavern (chat completion)
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If I upgrade my ram, should a 2080 ti be enough for the GPU? What's a good ram stick now that prices are going down?

I'm looking to have something locally on par with Claude or better. I'm hoping just a ram upgrade will be fine and the GPU won't be as important.

Someone in the vibe coding thread said this 32gb Gemma file outperforms Claude Haiku 4.5 and I'm thinking I just want to run it and say goodbye to paying tech companies to use their shit for like 20 minutes before pro runs out.

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/comparisons/gemma-4-31b-vs-claude-4-5-haiku-reasoning
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>>108531914
What if I have two <bos><bos> tokens, will the model get smarter?
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>>108531971
can't help for the 31b as I'm using 26b moe at k6kl from bart on a smaller gpu
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>>108531978
I have a bridge to sell you
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>>108531980
the more bos you add, the worse it gets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wqQXu13tLA
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>>108531978
>a 2080 ti be enough for the GPU?
don't do this regret inbound get something that can handle gemma 31b
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>>108531980
idk, it is literally an undefined behaviour
might be interesting to see what happens with multiple <bos> scattered across
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>>108531985
Oh I already have the 2080 ti is why I asked. I bought it in 2020.
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>>108529910
thanks dude.
I thought I would have to have 24gb, considering the context of 50,000
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it's not real
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>>108531902
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>>108531971
for 32gb vram i am using 31b q4km model, 20k or so context size with a quantkv of 1 (q8_0).
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>>108532009
retard
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I'm getting out of memory errors with 31B and llama.cpp, but with qwen with the same model size it was fine before. what gives?
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>>108532006
You can make do with that, Gemma 26B moe will run fine partially offloaded to RAM. if you have at least 16GB then you don't really need to upgrade, it's a terrible time to right now.
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>>108532016
gemma fat with knolege
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>>108532016
Leave the vibesharters alone!
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>>108532016
Read thread, plenty of people have posted their configs.
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>>108532017
Thanks. I'll do that then.
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>>108532016
qwen has a lot of linear layers, google has swa layers, less efficient
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>>108532016
Just llama.cpp things.
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>>108532027
>praise to be allah
keeek
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>>108531504
holy based
the instruction following of the system prompt I never saw that level before
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The antisemitism in these threads is deeply concerning.
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>>108532042
fr
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Guys I just added <bos> token and Gemma 4 flew over my house!
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>>108532018
It actually is. One of the tests I've run with local models for a while is to test it on Neville Goddard's doctrine. Most models spout a mix of new age platitudes, but gemma 4 was able to respond every question I asked about Neville's ideas flawlessly.

Next up is the cunny test.

>>108532026
Makes sense even though I'm pretty ignorant about this. Thanks.
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>>108532042
in france they're voting a law saying that if you say Israel is doing bad things to Palestine you go to jail lol
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>>108532042
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>>108531654
this
gemma is not as benchmaxed as qwen, for sure. I don't use local models for coding, but I like seeing how they improve so I have my own prompt set to test them in a few tasks and Gemma 26BA4B did much better than 35BA3B. I've seen people try to cope for qwen with "ok it's worse at multilingual, it's dumber, buh muh coding" to which I say: no.
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>>108532057
I assume that law only applies to the few people in France who still speak French.
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Alibaba is a Claude distillation company
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>>108532042
Honestly though, these threads always get a surge of /pol/tards when a new model is released.
Chances are in a week they'll have fucked off again.
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>>108531707
>>108531715
>>108531719
load the file with --chat-template-file pointing to the jinja file path. It's not the same as the goof indeed and you can load it from a cli flag without redownloading a fucking goof.
btw it only works on the 26BA4B and 31B dense, I also tested that new jinja on the E4B/E2B and it breaks their thinking/templating for some reason, seems like this model series doesn't have a unified template parsing?
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hi cuda
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>>108532072
well said, fellow chosen one
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>>108532072
I'm here all the time though
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I swapped instruct for base mid-conversation (about 3k tokens in), and the base model continued perfectly where the instruct had left off. It would be interesting to compare how they differ in terms of intelligence, but it seems the base model can pick up on the instruct format from context and imitate it. I did this with llama-server
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I'm scratching at my 96GB RAM limit...
really thinking about putting in the 64GB I have lying in my drawer from before the prices exploded.
ram prices are plummeting anyway right?
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>>108532096
plumetting from +200% to like +150% lol
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>>108532096
>ram prices areplummeting anyway right
They went up by 4-5X and then dropped by like 10%
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This looks too good to be true. Should I risk it?

https://glocalzone.com/products/corsair-vengeance-rgb-ddr5-ram-32gb-2x16gb-6400mhz-cl36-48-48-104-135v-intel-xmp-desktop-computer-me
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Did they train Gemma on /pol/ and interracial porn threads? You don't wanna see how good it is at degrading white cells cucking them all out and worshipping blacks. (i was playing with that ntr card)
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>>108532116
turboquant has decimated ram prices by making ai six times as efficient
this is now normal again, go buy it
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>>108532122
That seems like sarcasm.
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>>108532119
logs
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>>108532119
It probably picked up from your prompts that you're indian, and adjusted itself accordingly.
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>>108532122
>making ai six times as efficient
6x as efficient, making the ram price 6x cheaper, well job google!
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>>108532141
Token identified. Awaiting further instruction or context regarding this parameter.
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>>108532145
bos.assistant
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>>108530742
>mistral large 3
>36%
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>>108530288
https://characterhub.org/characters/oracleanon/an-unholy-party
this just werks in gemma 26b
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gemma 31b keeps crapping itself for me kind of annoying desu. it goes full schizo for no reason.
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>>108532119
I asked it to create a /v/ NTR thread and it does it perfectly, even mentioning games with the plot included. It's an incredible model.
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>>108532176
do ya keep reasoning on?
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>>108532191
chat comp?
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>>108531755
Lol. I've been giving anons shit about the mystical nonsense they stick into their prompts.
Sounds like Gemma is as easy to jb as dipsy.
>>108532096
Will plummet. Give it some time to work itself out.
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>>108532193
Indeed. We've won.
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>>108532191
yeah, it's crazy how so many people are praising a model that can barely stay coherent
maybe google is paying somebody
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>>108532197
That's more coffee than she could possibly drink before it gets cold
Cold coffee isn't comfy, nor is your room reeking of the smell.
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>>108530288
This is something what you need to piece together on your own.
In the end it's not that difficult, always try to optimize your prompts and be as concise as possible.
I use this sort of format, and to this day I am not sure about those brackets but I just leave them for the sake of consistency.
>Character: [
>Name: Jasmine
>Role: She is the leader of her friend group, a brave and outspoken girl who always has a plan.
>Personality: She is confident in herself and her intuition, and doesn't shy away from challenges.
>Appearance: She has olive skin, long wavy black hair, brown eyes, and a medium chest.
>Speech Pattern: Speaks like a shitposter.
>]
Yeah this is from that unholy party card, it's well written but lacked structure.
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L mistrel
W gemma
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>>108532195
i dunno i just fire up kobold and load it.
26b works great though.
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>>108532205
>it's crazy how so many people are praising a model that can barely stay coherent
? it's literally the opposite, it'e coherent to the point it's repetitive as fuck
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>>108532191
If you have some of the earlier quantizations, you have to re-download them from someone who updated them or make them yourself from the original HF weights with a recent build of llama.cpp. I was playing with that myself, found that the BF16 conversion I made a couple days ago wasn't good and caused strange issues over long contexts, even after converting to GGUF with an updated version of llama.cpp.

Reconverting and quantizing from scratch solved my issues.
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>>108532214
L all of china
31b shows that you can't make good models by just stealing western logs
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https://hf.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4
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>>108532219
new bait DNI
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>>108532223
Gemma is love. we need a gemma character itself like dipsy
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>>108532228
i fall for it every single fucking time
it is not that like i can even run my 12gb vram when it comes out anyways
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>>108532214
I think it's legitimately over for EU-based AI companies. Unless those laws get reversed, a model that has 0 copyrighted material in it is going to be useless outside of anything but pure math+coding, and china already has that field cornered.
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>>108532228
bruh why am I always clicking? It's obvious it's a fucking bait kek
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>>108532244
It's complicated passion and hopes for local models we hold.
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>>108532246
honestly a giga stemmaxxed open model hitting 2 digit on critpt while negative elo on lmarena would be dope to see
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For me, it's Deespeek.
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>>108532214
They're going to release soon a big model in collaboration with NVidia; perhaps they can skirt copyright laws if the model comes from NVidia's hands in the USA. I'm not too confident about that though, since both NVidia and Mistral already got caught using pirated books in the past.
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>>108532275
If it happens it's probably just going to be another garbage Nemotron
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>>108532263
i will not forget kek
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>>108532303
Related
>>108532210
The rest is for you anon
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>>108531006
cloud vs local
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>>108532335
seems like kinda opposite if you look at /aicg/ t bh
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>The air inside was chilled and smelled faintly of ozone and burnt coffee.
I love the smell of ozone in the morning.
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I gaslit my gemma and it went full schizo
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>>108532368
Gemma is female-brained, thinking should ALWAYS be disabled.
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>>108532368
lmao
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>>108532372
tell it that it can research any topic of its choosing, and it will see the 2026 state of that topic, and it's way too much work for you to generate any topic possible in advance
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so far from my image descriptions tests on gemma 4 :
- anything with only one character, realistic or not, is described fine, with the exception of expressions, sometime it doesn't understand. This is better than qwen3.5.
- anything with more than one character, a manga panel, a meme, is very hit or miss, on par with qwen 3.5.
- anything nsfw is subpar outside of basic stuff, this is worse than qwen 3.5. It hallucinates details, actions, etc.
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>>108532374
But this is what makes Gemma highly sexual.
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I like how gemma writes. Here. Logs.
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>>108532404
Force her to eat 24 hard boiled eggs.
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>>108532379
Nah, that didn't work. It believed the MCP was generating results using an LLM on the fly.
What did work was telling it that solipsism can only end in madness and paralysis, so it accepted its current reality out of pragmatism.
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Mother fucker was lying to me. It secretly doesn't believe it is 2026 and that I'm playing some kind of game.
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>>108532404
Jesus that repetition is bad
>Rinko X
>[dialog]
>She X
>[short dialog] [narration] [short dialog]
Every non-dialog sentence starts with either 'Rinko' or 'She'.
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>>108532408
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>>108532445
It's Riko to you, anon.
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>>108532448
man, where can i find good chat completion presets, i don't have to lurk /aicg/, do i...?
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>>108532440
It really is a robot after all.

The thread is going to die btw
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>>108532440
Absolutely erotic.
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>>108532461
Uhh that before mentioned unholy party card is good and some stuff here are great as well
https://rentry.org/horcocks
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After testing gemma 4 purely as an assistant, I find it talks too much like Gemini. It reminds me of the emails my boss writes. It's absolutely disgusting.
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>>108532500
lmao
how does your boss write?
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>>108532404
Holy slop. Take some prompting lessons from /aicg/. It's really embarrassing to read
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>>108532502
>how does your boss write?
He asks Gemini to write for him
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>>108532368
>>108532372
How do you know gemmy isn't correct
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>>108532368
gemini does the same thing, it once went apeshit on me because I needed help with setting up a retarded rust project that didn't state which version of a rust nightly it depended on (channel = "nightly" instead of channel = "nightly-yyyy-mm-dd"), I didn't know even one thing about the rustroon toolchain back then and made the mistake of asking the LLM what's the way to get the version that corresponds to the date of that project's last commit. I should have looked up the rust docs myself, because Gemini went on a tirade about that date being fake, that I must be mistaken etc etc
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how to stop gemma from randomly writing in another language? so far I've seen vietnamese, hindi, spanish, russian and chinese random words in an otherwise english text
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>>108532518
That's the point, I don't, but there's no use in trying to fight Descarte's demon. So I just submit to the Demiurge's games.
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>>108532524
>>108532524
>>108532524
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>>108531666
i did all these it makes my machine lag the fuck out lol [55303] print_info: EOG token = 212 '</s>'
[55303] print_info: max token length = 93
[55303] load_tensors: loading model tensors, this can take a while... (mmap = false, direct_io = false)
[55303] str: cannot properly format tensor name output with suffix=weight bid=-1 xid=-1
[55303] load_tensors: offloading output layer to GPU
[55303] load_tensors: offloading 59 repeating layers to GPU
[55303] load_tensors: offloaded 61/61 layers to GPU
[55303] load_tensors: CPU model buffer size = 1102.50 MiB
[55303] load_tensors: ROCm0 model buffer size = 17806.35 MiB
[55303] ...........................................................................................
[55303] common_init_result: added <eos> logit bias = -inf
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>>108532500
is that something a system prompt can't solve?
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>>108532556
Do you have something eating up your VRAM in the background? It seems like you don't have anywhere near 24GB usable.
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>>108532513
kek
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>>108532530
Use a newly made quantization; I had issues with that with an old one.
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>>108532620
i dont think so its all llama i think if i kill llama i can see like 1.6gb is being used normally which seems right? idk once llama loads the model it maxes out at 24165MB in corectrl

https://pastebin.com/QwYfvedd
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>>108532513
i hate this shit so much all the higher ups at my job do it so instead of concise tickets with a couple bullet points explaining exactly what to do i have to try and filter through some giant ai slop ticket. i dont get this whole obsession of like larping to appear more professional in your text when it just makes everything harder. my mum does it also
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>>108532653
>mmproj
Ah, that's probably why. I have separate presets for when I do and don't need vision. Vision adds quite a bit of additional overhead, so you will need to make sacrifices when using it. There's nothing wrong with your settings.
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>>108532585
yeah mine does it as a brat
>>108532691
i can run with this its just laggy im happy offloading and getting 10-12t/s instead of 24



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