The Noise Floor of a Quantization Comparison: Engine, restart, batch and kernel drift, measured against 8-bit and 4-bit effects in two decision models
Paper โข 2611.15671 โข Published
NVFP4 W4A4, built with llm-compressor, for vLLM. A quantized build of Cloudflare's Clef (27B), made for "The Noise Floor of a Quantization Comparison" by Aleks Blagojevich and Trevor Sunderland (Level5). This isn't an official Cloudflare release.
These builds keep the joint schema head, the vision tower, the norms and the Gated DeltaNet gate projections in BF16. The recipes are in the repository.
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.15671
Measurements, recipes and per-record outputs: https://github.com/Level5Tech/clef-quant-bench
The base model is under Apache-2.0. Its LICENSE is included here, and NOTICE says these weights were modified by quantization.