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zed-industries_zeta-2-GGUF

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: c111464Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Text generation model. Gguf weights, 134 GB in all. Published by bartowski under Apache-2.0.

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$ fw get bartowski/zed-industries_zeta-2-GGUF
# manifest sha256 6481d0084447… · 134 GB · 27 files
$ fw verify ./zed-industries_zeta-2-GGUF bartowski/zed-industries_zeta-2-GGUF
From sourceHosted (signed)bartowski/zed-industries_zeta-2-GGUFLast check: 2026-11-15 04:59 UTC

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Quantized of zeta-2.

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Overview

Size
134 GB
Weights
5.02 MB (smallest of 25 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
Section
alt.freeweights.text
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Base model: zed-industries/zeta-2

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Llamacpp imatrix Quantizations of zeta-2 by zed-industries#

Using llama.cpp release b8457 for quantization.

Original model: https://huggingface.co/zed-industries/zeta-2

All quants made using imatrix option with dataset from here

Run them in your choice of tools:

Note: if it's a newly supported model, you may need to wait for an update from the developers.

Prompt format#

No prompt format found, check original model page

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

FilenameQuant typeFile SizeSplitDescription
zeta-2-bf16.ggufbf1616.51GBfalseFull BF16 weights.
zeta-2-Q8_0.ggufQ8_08.77GBfalseExtremely high quality, generally unneeded but max available quant.
zeta-2-Q6_K_L.ggufQ6_K_L7.33GBfalseUses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Very high quality, near perfect, recommended.
zeta-2-Q6_K.ggufQ6_K7.02GBfalseVery high quality, near perfect, recommended.
zeta-2-Q5_K_L.ggufQ5_K_L6.41GBfalseUses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. High quality, recommended.
zeta-2-Q5_K_M.ggufQ5_K_M6.02GBfalseHigh quality, recommended.
zeta-2-Q5_K_S.ggufQ5_K_S5.80GBfalseHigh quality, recommended.
zeta-2-Q4_K_L.ggufQ4_K_L5.70GBfalseUses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Good quality, recommended.
zeta-2-Q4_1.ggufQ4_15.34GBfalseLegacy format, similar performance to Q4_K_S but with improved tokens/watt on Apple silicon.
zeta-2-Q4_K_M.ggufQ4_K_M5.22GBfalseGood quality, default size for most use cases, recommended.
zeta-2-Q3_K_XL.ggufQ3_K_XL5.05GBfalseUses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Lower quality but usable, good for low RAM availability.
zeta-2-Q4_K_S.ggufQ4_K_S4.92GBfalseSlightly lower quality with more space savings, recommended.
zeta-2-IQ4_NL.ggufIQ4_NL4.92GBfalseSimilar to IQ4_XS, but slightly larger. Offers online repacking for ARM CPU inference.
zeta-2-Q4_0.ggufQ4_04.90GBfalseLegacy format, offers online repacking for ARM and AVX CPU inference.
zeta-2-IQ4_XS.ggufIQ4_XS4.69GBfalseDecent quality, smaller than Q4_K_S with similar performance, recommended.
zeta-2-Q3_K_L.ggufQ3_K_L4.50GBfalseLower quality but usable, good for low RAM availability.
zeta-2-Q3_K_M.ggufQ3_K_M4.27GBfalseLow quality.
zeta-2-Q2_K_L.ggufQ2_K_L4.06GBfalseUses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Very low quality but surprisingly usable.
zeta-2-IQ3_M.ggufIQ3_M4.04GBfalseMedium-low quality, new method with decent performance comparable to Q3_K_M.
zeta-2-Q3_K_S.ggufQ3_K_S3.91GBfalseLow quality, not recommended.
zeta-2-IQ3_XS.ggufIQ3_XS3.79GBfalseLower quality, new method with decent performance, slightly better than Q3_K_S.
zeta-2-IQ3_XXS.ggufIQ3_XXS3.56GBfalseLower quality, new method with decent performance, comparable to Q3 quants.
zeta-2-Q2_K.ggufQ2_K3.44GBfalseVery low quality but surprisingly usable.
zeta-2-IQ2_M.ggufIQ2_M3.38GBfalseRelatively 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.

Downloading using huggingface-cli#

Click to view download instructions

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/zed-industries_zeta-2-GGUF --include "zed-industries_zeta-2-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/zed-industries_zeta-2-GGUF --include "zed-industries_zeta-2-Q8_0/*" --local-dir ./

You can either specify a new local-dir (zed-industries_zeta-2-Q8_0) or download them all in place (./)

ARM/AVX information#

Previously, you would download Q4_0_4_4/4_8/8_8, and these would have their weights interleaved in memory in order to improve performance on ARM and AVX machines by loading up more data in one pass.

Now, however, there is something called "online repacking" for weights. details in this PR. If you use Q4_0 and your hardware would benefit from repacking weights, it will do it automatically on the fly.

As of llama.cpp build b4282 you will not be able to run the Q4_0_X_X files and will instead need to use Q4_0.

Additionally, if you want to get slightly better quality for , you can use IQ4_NL thanks to this PR which will also repack the weights for ARM, though only the 4_4 for now. The loading time may be slower but it will result in an overall speed incrase.

Click to view Q4_0_X_X information (deprecated

I'm keeping this section to show the potential theoretical uplift in performance from using the Q4_0 with online repacking.

Click to view benchmarks on an AVX2 system (EPYC7702)

modelsizeparamsbackendthreadstestt/s% (vs Q4_0)
qwen2 3B Q4_01.70 GiB3.09 BCPU64pp512204.03 ± 1.03100%
qwen2 3B Q4_01.70 GiB3.09 BCPU64pp1024282.92 ± 0.19100%
qwen2 3B Q4_01.70 GiB3.09 BCPU64pp2048259.49 ± 0.44100%
qwen2 3B Q4_01.70 GiB3.09 BCPU64tg12839.12 ± 0.27100%
qwen2 3B Q4_01.70 GiB3.09 BCPU64tg25639.31 ± 0.69100%
qwen2 3B Q4_01.70 GiB3.09 BCPU64tg51240.52 ± 0.03100%
qwen2 3B Q4_K_M1.79 GiB3.09 BCPU64pp512301.02 ± 1.74147%
qwen2 3B Q4_K_M1.79 GiB3.09 BCPU64pp1024287.23 ± 0.20101%
qwen2 3B Q4_K_M1.79 GiB3.09 BCPU64pp2048262.77 ± 1.81101%
qwen2 3B Q4_K_M1.79 GiB3.09 BCPU64tg12818.80 ± 0.9948%
qwen2 3B Q4_K_M1.79 GiB3.09 BCPU64tg25624.46 ± 3.0483%
qwen2 3B Q4_K_M1.79 GiB3.09 BCPU64tg51236.32 ± 3.5990%
qwen2 3B Q4_0_8_81.69 GiB3.09 BCPU64pp512271.71 ± 3.53133%
qwen2 3B Q4_0_8_81.69 GiB3.09 BCPU64pp1024279.86 ± 45.63100%
qwen2 3B Q4_0_8_81.69 GiB3.09 BCPU64pp2048320.77 ± 5.00124%
qwen2 3B Q4_0_8_81.69 GiB3.09 BCPU64tg12843.51 ± 0.05111%
qwen2 3B Q4_0_8_81.69 GiB3.09 BCPU64tg25643.35 ± 0.09110%
qwen2 3B Q4_0_8_81.69 GiB3.09 BCPU64tg51242.60 ± 0.31105%

Q4_0_8_8 offers a nice bump to prompt processing and a small bump to text generation

Which file should I choose?#

Click here for details

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, but will be slower than their K-quant equivalent, so speed vs performance is a tradeoff you'll have to decide.

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.

Thank you to LM Studio for sponsoring my work.

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

Files

27 files · 134 GBWeights 5.02 MB (smallest of 25 GGUF variants). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
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.gitattributes3.26 KB86ce3ec4b4efb40e1777d2d412d993c6eb138000540e63920f21b35acd23c0f0
README.md13.6 KBf6b01e73c1bd8e526f4f059be21c94bd52974b42a76c89afc8822a080535a9b6
zed-industries_zeta-2-IQ2_M.gguf3.38 GB77cb903bbb0303db13dcb766e8584213e9f4c00d4947924603dd23c6634e255a
zed-industries_zeta-2-IQ3_M.gguf4.04 GB33f7c9600488b85aeeeafb10ef2132944124ebb84be0022ad13e6764e42540f7
zed-industries_zeta-2-IQ3_XS.gguf3.79 GBf9c70fbb026e134205e6e1950e40a7db3fa38ee68595b9547e1c724343349e34
zed-industries_zeta-2-IQ3_XXS.gguf3.56 GBe7fb32998cf04b55148517c6fa77dbeb2a5dbb98d7f8b1b381f43384af3db53d
zed-industries_zeta-2-IQ4_NL.gguf4.92 GB048b8057fc619a8d2e53edb2ebe77b0483d10cda6810a6e1ef36629f983aae55
zed-industries_zeta-2-IQ4_XS.gguf4.69 GB053fcab6f18d28ed06e4b203c4b1038f05d529a5c8465226dda5686357715d1d
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zed-industries_zeta-2-Q3_K_XL.gguf5.05 GBec85e73604445962b128b183fe17e3ca50da0e542dabe214c4774fb03fad78e2
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zed-industries_zeta-2-Q4_1.gguf5.34 GB4db98867f49588d82e8d4ba7e95e78f902cb7dc59b40efaf6cfdd773d3df564d
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$ fw verify ./zed-industries_zeta-2-GGUF bartowski/zed-industries_zeta-2-GGUF
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hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
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llama.cppDownload one GGUF variant (zed-industries_zeta-2-imatrix, 5.02 MB), then serve it.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download bartowski/zed-industries_zeta-2-GGUF --include "zed-industries_zeta-2-imatrix*" --local-dir ./zed-industries_zeta-2-GGUF $ llama-server -m ./zed-industries_zeta-2-GGUF/zed-industries_zeta-2-imatrix.gguf
OllamaMake an Ollama model from the downloaded file.
$ printf 'FROM ./zed-industries_zeta-2-GGUF/zed-industries_zeta-2-imatrix.gguf\n' > Modelfile $ ollama create zed-industries-zeta-2-gguf -f Modelfile

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From: bartowski <huggingface.co/bartowski>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.textSubject: zed-industries_zeta-2-GGUFDate: 2026-11-15Commit: c111464Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
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