From: ibm-granite <huggingface.co/ibm-granite> Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.graniteSubject: granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4 Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 40caf0fSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓ Text generation model with 3.7B parameters. Safetensors weights, 2.71 GB in all. Published by ibm-granite under Apache-2.0.
3.7B params 2.71 GB granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4 safetensors permissive
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$ fw get ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4
# manifest sha256 56e89570640c… · 2.71 GB · 14 files
$ fw verify ./granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4 ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4Hosted (signed) ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4 Last check: 2026-11-15 04:59 UTC
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Size 2.71 GB
Weights 2.70 GB (safetensors)
Parameters 3.7B
Formats safetensors
Task text generation
License Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files 14, each with a sha256
Publisher ibm-granite
Added 2026-11-15
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Files 14 files · 2.71 GB Weights 2.70 GB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
Hide all 14 files with their sha256 File Size sha256 .gitattributes 1.52 KB 11ad7efa24975ee4b0c3c3a38ed18737f0658a5f75a0a96787b576a78a023361 README.md 371 B 554f92e2a18434d791d55700b4ba7249b3398c2abd75e83ae2e2586a1eceb48d chat_template.jinja 9.01 KB f0ba43f79b3cabca5e5a7584c77aec92f49feae45cdf7779c87d9fc54cd90258 config.json 2.24 KB 4e862166f1656db7bd50545a7c7b5d1a77cafad4fc6904db6c092bbd6ad609c6 generation_config.json 207 B 1b9baf0a7959d31d7fb58ff6b506c27d09a73d395cadccc7e6dd1d4b7e43fd9d granite_thinking_parser.py 4.65 KB cd5eef99f559f33dc402e0475174a97dcb43724d7e810149c702e9bbc473048a merges.txt 917 KB b6fe424e334903f7fb84d3a106d9730455f4744b9fe3c21ee136d97a00e72502 model.safetensors 2.70 GB 00c7250d147445c517a4d980e94abc24ce2ac451a8db74201c6ae8ab4e93e5e6 model.sig 10.8 KB afeb21cc4a74bc947a1242f2305b7ba8aa780dccb652f6683cf4668cc465c2c4 recipe.yaml 264 B 6dfebf44dabe10ac71c8d3245a064eeb6840c9a657362f81fddce6ce63d07055 special_tokens_map.json 563 B e9435fefd6d838fd9fcbbc44b97a8e3ff322be7f6dfb7e4fd2468586574bb52b tokenizer.json 7.15 MB 883975314d58743726347caaf2c32ac89afd5ad57222cffbc4f052f2ab27b2d7 tokenizer_config.json 17.7 KB 2007f26df166ed10a2d6fa881c1c8f3cdd151e451469f59b274897f14449835f vocab.json 1.61 MB a1be0c1e0a89b5bacda6af6f8b63df09668cb8d1f656229ee9123140c9507810
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Upstream commit Date Contents 40caf0f3c4 pinned now 2026-11-15 04:59 UTC 14 files · 2.71 GB
Use it fw
$ fw get ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4
# manifest sha256 56e89570640c… · 2.71 GB · 14 files
$ fw verify ./granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4 ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4fw.py Checks the signature and every sha256, tries each source in order, resumes.
$ python3 fw.py get https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4.json --dir ./granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4
$ python3 fw.py verify ./granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4 ./ibm-granite__granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4.jsonhf The Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT =https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4 --revision 40caf0f3c49b05128358355ff01faf2df10f62f9 --local-dir ./granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4transformers Load the weights in Python.
import os
os.environ["HF_ENDPOINT" ] = "https://freeweights.allternit.com"
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4", revision="40caf0f3c49b05128358355ff01faf2df10f62f9")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4", revision="40caf0f3c49b05128358355ff01faf2df10f62f9", device_map="auto")vLLM Serve an OpenAI-compatible API.
$ HF_ENDPOINT =https://freeweights.allternit.com vllm serve ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4 --revision 40caf0f3c49b05128358355ff01faf2df10f62f9License Name Apache License 2.0 Id Apache-2.0 Class Permissive Redistribution yes Listing Hosted (signed) Decided License as declared by the publisher. No person read it. 2026-11-15 Text in README.md Text sha256 554f92e2a18434d791d55700b4ba7249b3398c2abd75e83ae2e2586a1eceb48d Terms gate No extra terms beyond the license. Read the license text
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Provenance From: ibm-granite <huggingface.co/ibm-granite> Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.graniteSubject: granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4 Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 40caf0fSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
Upstream ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4 Pinned commit 40caf0f3c49b05128358355ff01faf2df10f62f9 Manifest granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4.json · .minisig Manifest sha256 56e89570640c5941cc45c5d38b2d8a7ad35dd85703e663aa701d514b0971c167 Signature minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B Created 2026-11-15 04:59 UTC Generator freeweights-manifest/0.1.0 Takedowns None. How to verify
$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4.json
$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4.json.minisig
$ minisign -Vm granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4.json -P RWQ7KGqyx4zCLXtUFOqvfv8L3g+8fpKJ1FsuxPyOYMF+4KufbUxKq1Oq
$ shasum -a 256 <file> # compare with the Files tab A manifest whose signature fails must be rejected. A file whose size or sha256 does not match must be discarded. Verify a download
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$ HF_ENDPOINT =https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4Open in Freeweights Studio Pull, verify and run it in the Allternit app on Desktop, web or phone.
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