K2-Horizon-7B — Pollard

Pollard shrank this model: 18.00 GB (f16) → 4.14 GB77% smaller, 4.4× down.

The smallest rung here; larger, higher-fidelity rungs are listed below.

format this model's size
f16 18.00 GB
Q8_0 ~9.54 GB
Q6_K ~7.38 GB
Q4_K_M ~5.22 GB
PollardMix (this repo's IQ2_S) 4.14 GB

Pollard builds of IFM/K2-Horizon-7B made with Pollard Weights — a ladder of measured-allocation quants (bits placed by per-layer sensitivity, not a uniform crush).

Standard GGUF — runs in stock llama.cpp / ik_llama.cpp, Ollama, LM Studio. Trellis (IQ*_KT) files need ik_llama.cpp; the K-quants run anywhere.

Model details

Parameter count ~9.0B
Architecture k2_horizon
Input support text
imatrix no
Perplexity measured yes — table below

Which file should I choose?

Every rung is the same weights, sized to a different RAM budget by the measured allocation. Pick the largest one that fits your machine with room for context:

  • ~9 GB RAM / VRAMQ6_K (7.39 GB). near-lossless
  • ~7 GB RAM / VRAMIQ3_S (5.03 GB). recommended default
  • ~6 GB RAM / VRAMIQ2_S (4.14 GB). smallest - 4.4x down from f16

Available files (wikitext-2 test, ctx 512)

f16 reference PPL 9.7673..

file PPL size Mean KLD notes
K2-Horizon-7B-Pollard-IQ2_S.gguf 12.1748 4.14 GB smallest - 4.4x down from f16
K2-Horizon-7B-Pollard-IQ3_S.gguf 10.3034 5.03 GB recommended default
K2-Horizon-7B-Pollard-Q6_K.gguf 9.8461 7.39 GB near-lossless

Measured notes

f16 reference PPL 9.7673.

Download a specific file

pip install -U "huggingface_hub[cli]"
hf download PollardWeights/K2-Horizon-7B-Pollard \
  --include "K2-Horizon-7B-Pollard-IQ3_S.gguf" --local-dir ./

How to run

These are standard GGUF and run with llama.cpp:

llama-server -hf PollardWeights/K2-Horizon-7B-Pollard:IQ3_S

or from a local file:

llama-cli    -m K2-Horizon-7B-Pollard-IQ3_S.gguf -ngl 99 -p "Explain why the sky is blue."
llama-server -m K2-Horizon-7B-Pollard-IQ3_S.gguf -ngl 99      # OpenAI-compatible API + web UI at :8080

They also work in anything built on llama.cpp — LM Studio, koboldcpp, Jan, ramalama, Ollama (ollama run hf.co/PollardWeights/K2-Horizon-7B-Pollard).

ARM / AVX

llama.cpp repacks weights into an interleaved layout at load time for faster inference on ARM and AVX machines — no special file needed, online repacking covers these quants. The old Q4_0_4_4/4_8/8_8 variants are not required.

Errata

  • Trellis (IQ*_KT) quants need ik_llama.cpp to build/run; K-quants run in any recent llama.cpp.
  • Measured allocation places bits by per-layer sensitivity under a size budget.
  • Single machine; replication invited.

Credits & license

  • Base model: IFM/K2-Horizon-7B
  • Quantization tooling: llama.cpp (ggml-org)
  • Method + tooling: Pollard Weightsmeasure first, no claim before a number.
  • License: apache-2.0, inherited from the base model.

Built with Pollard Weights — frontier models, small hardware, no compromise.

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