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granite-4.2-8b-mxfp4

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 1e429c0Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Text generation model with 5.1B parameters. Safetensors weights, 5.89 GB in all. Published by ibm-granite under Apache-2.0.

5.1B params5.89GBgranite-4.2-8b-mxfp4safetensorspermissive
FactsParams5.1BSize5.89 GBFormatssafetensorsTasktext generationLicenseApache-2.0From sourcepermissive
$ fw get ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-mxfp4
# manifest sha256 33e7a6901f07… · 5.89 GB · 16 files
$ fw verify ./granite-4.2-8b-mxfp4 ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-mxfp4
From sourceHosted (signed)ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-mxfp4Last check: 2026-11-15 04:59 UTC
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Overview

Size
5.89 GB
Weights
5.88 GB (safetensors)
Parameters
5.1B
Formats
safetensors
Task
text generation
License
Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files
16, each with a sha256
Publisher
ibm-granite
Added
2026-11-15
Section
alt.freeweights.granite
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Base model: ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b

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Granite-4.2-8B (MXFP4)#

Note. This repository contains the MXFP4 version of Granite-4.2-8B.

Please refer to the original model's model card for additional details: https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b

Files

16 files · 5.89 GBWeights 5.88 GB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
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.gitattributes1.52 KB11ad7efa24975ee4b0c3c3a38ed18737f0658a5f75a0a96787b576a78a023361
README.md371 Ba5073cbf2049f292a83e649024095734da273b28b8268754954e823ca3297dcc
chat_template.jinja9.01 KBf0ba43f79b3cabca5e5a7584c77aec92f49feae45cdf7779c87d9fc54cd90258
config.json2.24 KB32136f9e16180c9a08d3b22223ed5a2a8fea6d28b041a2ad2910b019b491e28a
generation_config.json207 B1b9baf0a7959d31d7fb58ff6b506c27d09a73d395cadccc7e6dd1d4b7e43fd9d
granite_thinking_parser.py4.65 KBcd5eef99f559f33dc402e0475174a97dcb43724d7e810149c702e9bbc473048a
merges.txt917 KBb6fe424e334903f7fb84d3a106d9730455f4744b9fe3c21ee136d97a00e72502
model-00001-of-00002.safetensors5.00 GB9c6a509c9b8ae55d7a50db97498513ed7ed5d26a877506bc816f6c05d36b449d
model-00002-of-00002.safetensors879 MBec53babe07fc9fd20e649c8a6e56798dcca5787e73a898a1c9e3e67bd0fda84a
model.safetensors.index.json56.3 KBf4036bb039e914a4bde15f8b2aca8639a50b1472bf5669d21b4e942d61abbc78
model.sig11.1 KB69ad550ee85857338b0524efe2efbc4747a93d84e99a19ed427987e75ffa3069
recipe.yaml264 B6dfebf44dabe10ac71c8d3245a064eeb6840c9a657362f81fddce6ce63d07055
special_tokens_map.json563 Be9435fefd6d838fd9fcbbc44b97a8e3ff322be7f6dfb7e4fd2468586574bb52b
tokenizer.json7.15 MB883975314d58743726347caaf2c32ac89afd5ad57222cffbc4f052f2ab27b2d7
tokenizer_config.json17.7 KB2007f26df166ed10a2d6fa881c1c8f3cdd151e451469f59b274897f14449835f
vocab.json1.61 MBa1be0c1e0a89b5bacda6af6f8b63df09668cb8d1f656229ee9123140c9507810
VersionsEach time the pinned upstream commit or file list changed in this repo. Newest first.
Upstream commitDateContents
1e429c026f pinned now2026-11-15 04:59 UTC16 files · 5.89 GB

Use it

$ fw get ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-mxfp4
# manifest sha256 33e7a6901f07… · 5.89 GB · 16 files
$ fw verify ./granite-4.2-8b-mxfp4 ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-mxfp4
fw.pyChecks the signature and every sha256, tries each source in order, resumes.
$ python3 fw.py get https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-mxfp4.json --dir ./granite-4.2-8b-mxfp4 $ python3 fw.py verify ./granite-4.2-8b-mxfp4 ./ibm-granite__granite-4.2-8b-mxfp4.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-mxfp4 --revision 1e429c026f7a94ac22da2f604b7440b4e806d50c --local-dir ./granite-4.2-8b-mxfp4
transformersLoad 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-4.2-8b-mxfp4", revision="1e429c026f7a94ac22da2f604b7440b4e806d50c") model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-mxfp4", revision="1e429c026f7a94ac22da2f604b7440b4e806d50c", device_map="auto")
vLLMServe an OpenAI-compatible API.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com vllm serve ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-mxfp4 --revision 1e429c026f7a94ac22da2f604b7440b4e806d50c
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License

Name
Apache License 2.0
Id
Apache-2.0
Class
Permissive
Redistribution
yes
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Hosted (signed)
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License as declared by the publisher. No person read it. 2026-11-15
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Provenance

From: ibm-granite <huggingface.co/ibm-granite>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.graniteSubject: granite-4.2-8b-mxfp4Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 1e429c0Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
Upstream
ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-mxfp4
Pinned commit
1e429c026f7a94ac22da2f604b7440b4e806d50c
Manifest
granite-4.2-8b-mxfp4.json · .minisig
Manifest sha256
33e7a6901f078367edc7d45bbe5a85315aea87a13be164c22b02be4ddb8fdca1
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-4.2-8b-mxfp4.json $ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-mxfp4.json.minisig $ minisign -Vm granite-4.2-8b-mxfp4.json -P RWQ7KGqyx4zCLXtUFOqvfv8L3g+8fpKJ1FsuxPyOYMF+4KufbUxKq1Oq $ shasum -a 256 <file> # compare with the Files tab

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Signed manifest
minisign, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B. granite-4.2-8b-mxfp4.json. Provenance. Takedown history: none.
Source
huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-mxfp4

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