RINIQ-MERNIK-GGUF — tri-fusion 9B quants

RINIQ is a new finetune built by layer surgery, quantized by the MERNIK engine. Three Qwen3.5-9B donors, one 427-tensor trunk (Ornith's MTP head excluded), per-block donor maps — no averaging of divergent blocks, ever. Code and protocol: wepiqx/MERNIK (full ledger in FUSION.md there).

Donors

• Ox = OxCoder-9B (agentic code distillate, HE 90.24%) — base + globals
• Neo = NeoHorse-1-9B (thinking model) — donor of blk 31
• Orn = Ornith-1.5-9B-MTP trunk (GDN hybrid) — donor of mid/late blocks

Verdicts (slow ring: HumanEval pass@1, temp 1.0 / top_p 0.95 / top_k 20)

Build	Size	PPL (ctx1024)	GPQA-rec	HE pass@1	Empties
RINIQ-M2-MERNIK-5100-Q38 👑	5.0 GB	7.6130	47.47%	92.07% (151/164)	8 — own-qwen38 lens: lost everything, won verdict
RINIQ-M2-MERNIK-5100	5.0 GB	7.5819	50.00%	91.46% (150/164)	6
RINIQ-M1-MERNIK-5100	5.0 GB	7.6242	51.01%	90.85% (149/164)	7
RINIQ-M3-MERNIK-5100	5.0 GB	7.7111	50.00%	86.59% (142/164)	13
RINIQ-M2-SMAPE-6500	6.8 GB	7.5730	—	89.63% (147/164)	5 — wrong utility, scar
RINIQ-M2-MERNIK-6500	6.8 GB	7.5263	48.48%	91.46% (150/164)	8 — ties 5100: ceiling
Ox-MSE-6500 (parent)	6.8 GB	7.5125	49.5%	90.24% (148/164)	4–5
Ox-SMAPE-5100	5.0 GB	7.5670	49.0%	88.41% (145/164)	4–5

Recipes: M1 = Ox + Orn blks 15,19,23,27 (weight compass) + Neo blk 31. M2 = Ox + Orn blks 24,25,26 (imatrix compass) + Neo blk 31. M3 = M1 + blks 0–8 weight-averaged Ox+Neo (soup backbone) — soup buried (−4.9pp vs M2, honest scar in FUSION.md).

M4a/b/c (finale slate, quants running): M4a = M2 + blk 16←Orn; M4b = M2 with blk 25→Ox (one-block A/B on Orn-25); M4c = M2 + blk 30←Orn (seam with Neo-31).

Status

M4a/b/c 5100 quants are building now — verdicts next, then the series closes (93% ends it with fanfare). Quants land here as verdicts complete. Naming: RINIQ-M<i>-MERNIK-<size>[-Q38].gguf. No file is uploaded before its HE verdict unless marked UNVERIFIED.