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Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-GGUF

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 442545cSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Text generation model. Gguf weights, 24.5 GB in all. Published by bartowski under Apache-2.0.

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$ fw get bartowski/Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-GGUF
# manifest sha256 e94da3130450… · 24.5 GB · 27 files
$ fw verify ./Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-GGUF bartowski/Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-GGUF
From sourceHosted (signed)bartowski/Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-GGUFLast check: 2026-11-15 04:49 UTC

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Overview

Size
24.5 GB
Weights
625 MB (smallest of 24 GGUF variants)
Parameters
not stated
Formats
gguf
Task
text generation
License
Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files
27, each with a sha256
Publisher
bartowski
Added
2026-11-15
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Base model: 01-ai/Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat

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Llamacpp imatrix Quantizations of Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat#

Using llama.cpp release b3658 for quantization.

Original model: https://huggingface.co/01-ai/Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat

All quants made using imatrix option with dataset from here

Run them in LM Studio

Prompt format#

<|im_start|>system
{system_prompt}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
{prompt}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant

What's new:#

Fix tokenizer

Download a file (not the whole branch) from below:#

FilenameQuant typeFile SizeSplitDescription
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-f16.gguff162.95GBfalseFull F16 weights.
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q8_0.ggufQ8_01.57GBfalseExtremely high quality, generally unneeded but max available quant.
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q6_K_L.ggufQ6_K_L1.34GBfalseUses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Very high quality, near perfect, recommended.
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q6_K.ggufQ6_K1.28GBfalseVery high quality, near perfect, recommended.
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q5_K_L.ggufQ5_K_L1.18GBfalseUses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. High quality, recommended.
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q5_K_M.ggufQ5_K_M1.10GBfalseHigh quality, recommended.
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q4_K_L.ggufQ4_K_L1.06GBfalseUses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Good quality, recommended.
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q5_K_S.ggufQ5_K_S1.05GBfalseHigh quality, recommended.
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q4_K_M.ggufQ4_K_M0.96GBfalseGood quality, default size for must use cases, recommended.
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q3_K_XL.ggufQ3_K_XL0.94GBfalseUses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Lower quality but usable, good for low RAM availability.
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q4_K_S.ggufQ4_K_S0.90GBfalseSlightly lower quality with more space savings, recommended.
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q4_0_8_8.ggufQ4_0_8_80.87GBfalseOptimized for ARM inference. Requires 'sve' support (see link below).
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q4_0_4_8.ggufQ4_0_4_80.87GBfalseOptimized for ARM inference. Requires 'i8mm' support (see link below).
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q4_0_4_4.ggufQ4_0_4_40.87GBfalseOptimized for ARM inference. Should work well on all ARM chips, pick this if you're unsure.
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q4_0.ggufQ4_00.87GBfalseLegacy format, generally not worth using over similarly sized formats
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-IQ4_XS.ggufIQ4_XS0.83GBfalseDecent quality, smaller than Q4_K_S with similar performance, recommended.
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q3_K_L.ggufQ3_K_L0.83GBfalseLower quality but usable, good for low RAM availability.
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q3_K_M.ggufQ3_K_M0.79GBfalseLow quality.
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q2_K_L.ggufQ2_K_L0.76GBfalseUses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Very low quality but surprisingly usable.
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-IQ3_M.ggufIQ3_M0.75GBfalseMedium-low quality, new method with decent performance comparable to Q3_K_M.
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q3_K_S.ggufQ3_K_S0.72GBfalseLow quality, not recommended.
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-IQ3_XS.ggufIQ3_XS0.69GBfalseLower quality, new method with decent performance, slightly better than Q3_K_S.
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q2_K.ggufQ2_K0.63GBfalseVery low quality but surprisingly usable.
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-IQ2_M.ggufIQ2_M0.62GBfalseRelatively low quality, uses SOTA techniques to be surprisingly usable.

Embed/output weights#

Some of these quants (Q3_K_XL, Q4_K_L etc) are the standard quantization method with the embeddings and output weights quantized to Q8_0 instead of what they would normally default to.

Some say that this improves the quality, others don't notice any difference. If you use these models PLEASE COMMENT with your findings. I would like feedback that these are actually used and useful so I don't keep uploading quants no one is using.

Thanks!

Downloading using huggingface-cli#

First, make sure you have hugginface-cli installed:

pip install -U "huggingface_hub[cli]"

Then, you can target the specific file you want:

huggingface-cli download bartowski/Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-GGUF --include "Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q4_K_M.gguf" --local-dir ./

If the model is bigger than 50GB, it will have been split into multiple files. In order to download them all to a local folder, run:

huggingface-cli download bartowski/Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-GGUF --include "Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q8_0/*" --local-dir ./

You can either specify a new local-dir (Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q8_0) or download them all in place (./)

Q4_0_X_X#

If you're using an ARM chip, the Q4_0_X_X quants will have a substantial speedup. Check out Q4_0_4_4 speed comparisons on the original pull request

To check which one would work best for your ARM chip, you can check AArch64 SoC features (thanks EloyOn!).

Which file should I choose?#

A great write up with charts showing various performances is provided by Artefact2 here

The first thing to figure out is how big a model you can run. To do this, you'll need to figure out how much RAM and/or VRAM you have.

If you want your model running as FAST as possible, you'll want to fit the whole thing on your GPU's VRAM. Aim for a quant with a file size 1-2GB smaller than your GPU's total VRAM.

If you want the absolute maximum quality, add both your system RAM and your GPU's VRAM together, then similarly grab a quant with a file size 1-2GB Smaller than that total.

Next, you'll need to decide if you want to use an 'I-quant' or a 'K-quant'.

If you don't want to think too much, grab one of the K-quants. These are in format 'QX_K_X', like Q5_K_M.

If you want to get more into the weeds, you can check out this extremely useful feature chart:

llama.cpp feature matrix

But basically, if you're aiming for below Q4, and you're running cuBLAS (Nvidia) or rocBLAS (AMD), you should look towards the I-quants. These are in format IQX_X, like IQ3_M. These are newer and offer better performance for their size.

These I-quants can also be used on CPU and Apple Metal, but will be slower than their K-quant equivalent, so speed vs performance is a tradeoff you'll have to decide.

The I-quants are not compatible with Vulcan, which is also AMD, so if you have an AMD card double check if you're using the rocBLAS build or the Vulcan build. At the time of writing this, LM Studio has a preview with ROCm support, and other inference engines have specific builds for ROCm.

Credits#

Thank you kalomaze and Dampf for assistance in creating the imatrix calibration dataset

Thank you ZeroWw for the inspiration to experiment with embed/output

Want to support my work? Visit my ko-fi page here: https://ko-fi.com/bartowski

Files

27 files · 24.5 GBWeights 625 MB (smallest of 24 GGUF variants). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
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.gitattributes3.18 KBf295ade7756d0c4475987352418bfacf53bebe6dfe9fcc84169dfb627974dc86
README.md9.89 KB482145e9ee4873d043cde197be1422b956ebe524446009f278a5f16d5bd665d2
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-IQ2_M.gguf625 MB7812a7a78a524f103073d7359df26ee60f200cddc36b0d1024b454e0e9012bdc
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-IQ3_M.gguf754 MB1a04a49c17090c7d32b97ed4eb25a2fa074e26cb9ee7dbc732131ca0e1d103d0
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-IQ3_XS.gguf695 MBdcf2817b4c3744c8d5cbe176ee1d5ab52dd40a11b8ca83d39477f772a56f54d2
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-IQ4_XS.gguf833 MB1f487b6296172bd565f3f13fb74c0366790627f629e97ed501dd8f78eb6f71e5
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q2_K.gguf635 MB7cf8bda1fc72fa55a99c6a66b3f84fbefc9b624c978e8d47b438afa67cbdd10d
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q2_K_L.gguf763 MBddecc33b4ec021153138d9a74dacee27700d14c6c28c79d01e6d0514ee641ae0
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q3_K_L.gguf826 MBde4cc5354d372a49c7c4ce2b837b5f10a1b27842b274364629f27efdd39f69b7
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q3_K_M.gguf786 MB7d23f3e46c79e15124df3c45dd09a7a0731ba8be4eed28a79792e57710076529
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q3_K_S.gguf723 MB2ff20771cfba431c6a537c3ac183a2c8891e56720eeeb61c5c8186c3010923be
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q3_K_XL.gguf941 MB86b7bedabc21ce5185abda6aa9c901ed858bda839259b182b89bdb530a8cbb1e
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q4_0.gguf868 MB7ff26517f55a945d9541ca9082a53af1908bc3757d8934774b72568a8af5427f
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q4_0_4_4.gguf866 MB3541c989f5e20577d55611cf6e1421cd01a7ecf469064b54fbbffeea0f676440
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q4_0_4_8.gguf866 MB91da91f3fc4b0fabf277668cae6e0ae8c8b8c51486698a9d42fba043e6a46658
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q4_0_8_8.gguf866 MB91d452839a2297cc3407e269d5303f8e1c58c126ea756c61511dc451c313a8c7
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q4_K_L.gguf1.06 GBaca5748784e33679a5b560e4a6e7f2102f9606ae07c2623a03b9f0bb569afc1b
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q4_K_M.gguf964 MB61c72ab3dd56a15b8a3aee30f55e180675daa87d04219e8afc32e8852c175f32
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q4_K_S.gguf904 MB9c24d0bd0512fa83acbbb8994997eca1ac9da3096878855c85666f64fae572ca
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q5_K_L.gguf1.18 GB8e8fca824420dc7ea09aa7fdfccbd0ab8d74a56dcaf5ba2ab8be27de2b9b5b71
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q5_K_M.gguf1.10 GBcb00a5f3b40fc0d662d4c1a6eab203f6b7dd01ef9272a72774d28016d205282f
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q5_K_S.gguf1.05 GB2144635d7f16a2b62cdbcb1700e84d7be68358ad458ce51e8a982e2e2a32cb65
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q6_K.gguf1.28 GB5a018f4c0c72efefecb0be5b2ba1c43f1484aac6476880ba55f9884eefdf18ec
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q6_K_L.gguf1.34 GB0a46afd3a702cd45486065b426a568f4e73be59fead51f5f49ff5cf3563420f9
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-Q8_0.gguf1.57 GB1aa6949d35a6b81a268fd2d185fcea47886b6c71b9c37b4daa1e635443bbe11d
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-f16.gguf2.95 GBa13123ed5b1d993ac6f61c6b55e2bd3f2f9424f4ea78097e372b0624ce924320
Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat.imatrix1.71 MBad2df22a487282c4576953451cbd5fd685a5d535b142457291516f85cfb8d460
VersionsEach time the pinned upstream commit or file list changed in this repo. Newest first.
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442545c4f5 pinned now2026-11-15 04:49 UTC27 files · 24.5 GB

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$ fw get bartowski/Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-GGUF
# manifest sha256 e94da3130450… · 24.5 GB · 27 files
$ fw verify ./Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-GGUF bartowski/Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-GGUF
fw.pyChecks the signature and every sha256, tries each source in order, resumes.
$ python3 fw.py get https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/bartowski/Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-GGUF.json --dir ./Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-GGUF $ python3 fw.py verify ./Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-GGUF ./bartowski__Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-GGUF.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download bartowski/Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-GGUF --revision 442545c4f577cfdab9a70b38fec719c47d393b8b --local-dir ./Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-GGUF
llama.cppDownload one GGUF variant (Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-IQ2_M, 625 MB), then serve it.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download bartowski/Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-GGUF --include "Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-IQ2_M*" --local-dir ./Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-GGUF $ llama-server -m ./Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-GGUF/Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-IQ2_M.gguf
OllamaMake an Ollama model from the downloaded file.
$ printf 'FROM ./Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-GGUF/Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-IQ2_M.gguf\n' > Modelfile $ ollama create yi-coder-1.5b-chat-gguf -f Modelfile

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From: bartowski <huggingface.co/bartowski>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.textSubject: Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-GGUFDate: 2026-11-15Commit: 442545cSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
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Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-GGUF.json · .minisig
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