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From: lmstudio-community <huggingface.co/lmstudio-community>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.graniteSubject:

granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-GGUF

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 27b95c7Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Text generation model. Gguf weights, 9.99 GB in all. Published by lmstudio-community under Apache-2.0.

granite9.99GBgranite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-GGUFggufpermissive
FactsParamsnot statedSize9.99 GBFormatsggufTasktext generationLicenseApache-2.0From sourcepermissive
$ fw get lmstudio-community/granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-GGUF
# manifest sha256 f15886748b73… · 9.99 GB · 6 files
$ fw verify ./granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-GGUF lmstudio-community/granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-GGUF
From sourceHosted (signed)lmstudio-community/granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-GGUFLast check: 2026-11-15 05:21 UTC
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Overview

Size
9.99 GB
Weights
1.74 GB (smallest of 4 GGUF variants)
Parameters
not stated
Formats
gguf
Task
text generation
License
Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files
6, each with a sha256
Publisher
lmstudio-community
Added
2026-11-15
Section
alt.freeweights.granite
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Original release from the publisher.

Base model: ibm-granite/granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct

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Publisher at the pinned commit→You

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From the publisher at commit 27b95c7. Shown as plain text with links; images open at the publisher.

💫 Community Model> granite 3.1 3b a800m instruct by Ibm-Granite#

👾 LM Studio Community models highlights program. Highlighting new & noteworthy models by the community. Join the conversation on Discord.

Model creator: ibm-granite

Original model: granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct

GGUF quantization: provided by bartowski based on llama.cpp release b4381

Technical Details#

Supports context length of 131072 tokens.

Intended for general instructions, summarization, text classification and extraction, Q/A, RAG, coding, function calling, and long context tasks.

Supported Languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Arabic, Czech, Italian, Korean, Dutch, and Chinese. Users may finetune Granite 3.1 models for languages beyond these 12 languages.

Special thanks#

🙏 Special thanks to Georgi Gerganov and the whole team working on llama.cpp for making all of this possible.

Disclaimers#

LM Studio is not the creator, originator, or owner of any Model featured in the Community Model Program. Each Community Model is created and provided by third parties. LM Studio does not endorse, support, represent or guarantee the completeness, truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any Community Model. You understand that Community Models can produce content that might be offensive, harmful, inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate, or deceptive. Each Community Model is the sole responsibility of the person or entity who originated such Model. LM Studio may not monitor or control the Community Models and cannot, and does not, take responsibility for any such Model. LM Studio disclaims all warranties or guarantees about the accuracy, reliability or benefits of the Community Models. LM Studio further disclaims any warranty that the Community Model will meet your requirements, be secure, uninterrupted or available at any time or location, or error-free, viruses-free, or that any errors will be corrected, or otherwise. You will be solely responsible for any damage resulting from your use of or access to the Community Models, your downloading of any Community Model, or use of any other Community Model provided by or through LM Studio.

Files

6 files · 9.99 GBWeights 1.74 GB (smallest of 4 GGUF variants). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
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FileSizesha256
.gitattributes1.83 KB704a51e906c22d96afb890fbbd76e44944c5296fd45d202d7b1972f9e2284fec
README.md2.73 KBdf4e5a08fdeeabc5b69c35153fe118bb0b5c004e01ddbc88dc86878a4d1dd738
granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-Q3_K_L.gguf1.74 GBa929551ca82780784e626f7866a1783b53555da2d7d4b2dc3faf14f34dbdab06
granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf2.02 GB072357b06d0ac801e01232e0dbe31b948f325daa1efd27ede22e384b205aa08d
granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-Q6_K.gguf2.71 GBe69a1ce5bb76dbfef38c9156a2f60de796e80b85a5f3f24c78b0f4dcd1f8017f
granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-Q8_0.gguf3.51 GBd411d817d44e0efd757f1100fc4467433511b4beaf130e497c18635012e9db18
VersionsEach time the pinned upstream commit or file list changed in this repo. Newest first.
Upstream commitDateContents
27b95c71f5 pinned now2026-11-15 05:21 UTC6 files · 9.99 GB

Use it

$ fw get lmstudio-community/granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-GGUF
# manifest sha256 f15886748b73… · 9.99 GB · 6 files
$ fw verify ./granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-GGUF lmstudio-community/granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-GGUF
fw.pyChecks the signature and every sha256, tries each source in order, resumes.
$ python3 fw.py get https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/lmstudio-community/granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-GGUF.json --dir ./granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-GGUF $ python3 fw.py verify ./granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-GGUF ./lmstudio-community__granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-GGUF.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download lmstudio-community/granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-GGUF --revision 27b95c71f540e164d543c68af5dec28fb0ee2bde --local-dir ./granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-GGUF
llama.cppDownload one GGUF variant (granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-Q3_K_L, 1.74 GB), then serve it.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download lmstudio-community/granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-GGUF --include "granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-Q3_K_L*" --local-dir ./granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-GGUF $ llama-server -m ./granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-GGUF/granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-Q3_K_L.gguf
OllamaMake an Ollama model from the downloaded file.
$ printf 'FROM ./granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-GGUF/granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-Q3_K_L.gguf\n' > Modelfile $ ollama create granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-gguf -f Modelfile
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License

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
df4e5a08fdeeabc5b69c35153fe118bb0b5c004e01ddbc88dc86878a4d1dd738
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Provenance

From: lmstudio-community <huggingface.co/lmstudio-community>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.graniteSubject: granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-GGUFDate: 2026-11-15Commit: 27b95c7Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
Upstream
lmstudio-community/granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-GGUF
Pinned commit
27b95c71f540e164d543c68af5dec28fb0ee2bde
Manifest
granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-GGUF.json · .minisig
Manifest sha256
f15886748b73d99a39f6292d73a834fc98772395ceb80b63adb24c539dd3aa3b
Signature
minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B
Created
2026-11-15 05:21 UTC
Generator
freeweights-manifest/0.1.0
Takedowns
None.

How to verify

$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/lmstudio-community/granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-GGUF.json $ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/lmstudio-community/granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-GGUF.json.minisig $ minisign -Vm granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-GGUF.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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Parent

ibm-granite/granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct · this model is a quantization of it

No model in the catalog names this one as its parent.

Get it
Download
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download lmstudio-community/granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-GGUF
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Pull, verify and run it in the Allternit app on Desktop, web or phone.

Signed manifest
minisign, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B. granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-GGUF.json. Provenance. Takedown history: none.
Source
huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct-GGUF

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