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- mistralai/Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Base-2503
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# <span style="color: #7FFF7F;">Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503 GGUF Models</span>
## **Choosing the Right Model Format**
Selecting the correct model format depends on your **hardware capabilities** and **memory constraints**.
### **BF16 (Brain Float 16) – Use if BF16 acceleration is available**
- A 16-bit floating-point format designed for **faster computation** while retaining good precision.
- Provides **similar dynamic range** as FP32 but with **lower memory usage**.
- Recommended if your hardware supports **BF16 acceleration** (check your device’s specs).
- Ideal for **high-performance inference** with **reduced memory footprint** compared to FP32.
📌 **Use BF16 if:**
✔ Your hardware has native **BF16 support** (e.g., newer GPUs, TPUs).
✔ You want **higher precision** while saving memory.
✔ You plan to **requantize** the model into another format.
📌 **Avoid BF16 if:**
❌ Your hardware does **not** support BF16 (it may fall back to FP32 and run slower).
❌ You need compatibility with older devices that lack BF16 optimization.
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### **F16 (Float 16) – More widely supported than BF16**
- A 16-bit floating-point **high precision** but with less of range of values than BF16.
- Works on most devices with **FP16 acceleration support** (including many GPUs and some CPUs).
- Slightly lower numerical precision than BF16 but generally sufficient for inference.
📌 **Use F16 if:**
✔ Your hardware supports **FP16** but **not BF16**.
✔ You need a **balance between speed, memory usage, and accuracy**.
✔ You are running on a **GPU** or another device optimized for FP16 computations.
📌 **Avoid F16 if:**
❌ Your device lacks **native FP16 support** (it may run slower than expected).
❌ You have memory limitations.
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### **Quantized Models (Q4_K, Q6_K, Q8, etc.) – For CPU & Low-VRAM Inference**
Quantization reduces model size and memory usage while maintaining as much accuracy as possible.
- **Lower-bit models (Q4_K)** → **Best for minimal memory usage**, may have lower precision.
- **Higher-bit models (Q6_K, Q8_0)** → **Better accuracy**, requires more memory.
📌 **Use Quantized Models if:**
✔ You are running inference on a **CPU** and need an optimized model.
✔ Your device has **low VRAM** and cannot load full-precision models.
✔ You want to reduce **memory footprint** while keeping reasonable accuracy.
📌 **Avoid Quantized Models if:**
❌ You need **maximum accuracy** (full-precision models are better for this).
❌ Your hardware has enough VRAM for higher-precision formats (BF16/F16).
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### **Very Low-Bit Quantization (IQ3_XS, IQ3_S, IQ3_M, Q4_K, Q4_0)**
These models are optimized for **extreme memory efficiency**, making them ideal for **low-power devices** or **large-scale deployments** where memory is a critical constraint.
- **IQ3_XS**: Ultra-low-bit quantization (3-bit) with **extreme memory efficiency**.
- **Use case**: Best for **ultra-low-memory devices** where even Q4_K is too large.
- **Trade-off**: Lower accuracy compared to higher-bit quantizations.
- **IQ3_S**: Small block size for **maximum memory efficiency**.
- **Use case**: Best for **low-memory devices** where **IQ3_XS** is too aggressive.
- **IQ3_M**: Medium block size for better accuracy than **IQ3_S**.
- **Use case**: Suitable for **low-memory devices** where **IQ3_S** is too limiting.
- **Q4_K**: 4-bit quantization with **block-wise optimization** for better accuracy.
- **Use case**: Best for **low-memory devices** where **Q6_K** is too large.
- **Q4_0**: Pure 4-bit quantization, optimized for **ARM devices**.
- **Use case**: Best for **ARM-based devices** or **low-memory environments**.
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### **Summary Table: Model Format Selection**
| Model Format | Precision | Memory Usage | Device Requirements | Best Use Case |
|--------------|------------|---------------|----------------------|---------------|
| **BF16** | Highest | High | BF16-supported GPU/CPUs | High-speed inference with reduced memory |
| **F16** | High | High | FP16-supported devices | GPU inference when BF16 isn’t available |
| **Q4_K** | Medium Low | Low | CPU or Low-VRAM devices | Best for memory-constrained environments |
| **Q6_K** | Medium | Moderate | CPU with more memory | Better accuracy while still being quantized |
| **Q8_0** | High | Moderate | CPU or GPU with enough VRAM | Best accuracy among quantized models |
| **IQ3_XS** | Very Low | Very Low | Ultra-low-memory devices | Extreme memory efficiency and low accuracy |
| **Q4_0** | Low | Low | ARM or low-memory devices | llama.cpp can optimize for ARM devices |
---
## **Included Files & Details**
### `Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503-bf16.gguf`
- Model weights preserved in **BF16**.
- Use this if you want to **requantize** the model into a different format.
- Best if your device supports **BF16 acceleration**.
### `Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503-f16.gguf`
- Model weights stored in **F16**.
- Use if your device supports **FP16**, especially if BF16 is not available.
### `Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503-bf16-q8_0.gguf`
- **Output & embeddings** remain in **BF16**.
- All other layers quantized to **Q8_0**.
- Use if your device supports **BF16** and you want a quantized version.
### `Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503-f16-q8_0.gguf`
- **Output & embeddings** remain in **F16**.
- All other layers quantized to **Q8_0**.
### `Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503-q4_k.gguf`
- **Output & embeddings** quantized to **Q8_0**.
- All other layers quantized to **Q4_K**.
- Good for **CPU inference** with limited memory.
### `Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503-q4_k_s.gguf`
- Smallest **Q4_K** variant, using less memory at the cost of accuracy.
- Best for **very low-memory setups**.
### `Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503-q6_k.gguf`
- **Output & embeddings** quantized to **Q8_0**.
- All other layers quantized to **Q6_K** .
### `Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503-q8_0.gguf`
- Fully **Q8** quantized model for better accuracy.
- Requires **more memory** but offers higher precision.
### `Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503-iq3_xs.gguf`
- **IQ3_XS** quantization, optimized for **extreme memory efficiency**.
- Best for **ultra-low-memory devices**.
### `Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503-iq3_m.gguf`
- **IQ3_M** quantization, offering a **medium block size** for better accuracy.
- Suitable for **low-memory devices**.
### `Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503-q4_0.gguf`
- Pure **Q4_0** quantization, optimized for **ARM devices**.
- Best for **low-memory environments**.
- Prefer IQ4_NL for better accuracy.
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# Model Card for Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503
Building upon Mistral Small 3 (2501), Mistral Small 3.1 (2503) **adds state-of-the-art vision understanding** and enhances **long context capabilities up to 128k tokens** without compromising text performance.
With 24 billion parameters, this model achieves top-tier capabilities in both text and vision tasks.
This model is an instruction-finetuned version of: [Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Base-2503](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Base-2503).
Mistral Small 3.1 can be deployed locally and is exceptionally "knowledge-dense," fitting within a single RTX 4090 or a 32GB RAM MacBook once quantized.
It is ideal for:
- Fast-response conversational agents.
- Low-latency function calling.
- Subject matter experts via fine-tuning.
- Local inference for hobbyists and organizations handling sensitive data.
- Programming and math reasoning.
- Long document understanding.
- Visual understanding.
For enterprises requiring specialized capabilities (increased context, specific modalities, domain-specific knowledge, etc.), we will release commercial models beyond what Mistral AI contributes to the community.
Learn more about Mistral Small 3.1 in our [blog post](https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-small-3-1/).
## Key Features
- **Vision:** Vision capabilities enable the model to analyze images and provide insights based on visual content in addition to text.
- **Multilingual:** Supports dozens of languages, including English, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Nepali, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Farsi.
- **Agent-Centric:** Offers best-in-class agentic capabilities with native function calling and JSON outputting.
- **Advanced Reasoning:** State-of-the-art conversational and reasoning capabilities.
- **Apache 2.0 License:** Open license allowing usage and modification for both commercial and non-commercial purposes.
- **Context Window:** A 128k context window.
- **System Prompt:** Maintains strong adherence and support for system prompts.
- **Tokenizer:** Utilizes a Tekken tokenizer with a 131k vocabulary size.
## Benchmark Results
When available, we report numbers previously published by other model providers, otherwise we re-evaluate them using our own evaluation harness.
### Pretrain Evals
| Model | MMLU (5-shot) | MMLU Pro (5-shot CoT) | TriviaQA | GPQA Main (5-shot CoT)| MMMU |
|--------------------------------|---------------|-----------------------|------------|-----------------------|-----------|
| **Small 3.1 24B Base** | **81.01%** | **56.03%** | 80.50% | **37.50%** | **59.27%**|
| Gemma 3 27B PT | 78.60% | 52.20% | **81.30%** | 24.30% | 56.10% |
### Instruction Evals
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| Model | MMLU | MMLU Pro (5-shot CoT) | MATH | GPQA Main (5-shot CoT) | GPQA Diamond (5-shot CoT )| MBPP | HumanEval | SimpleQA (TotalAcc)|
|--------------------------------|-----------|-----------------------|------------------------|------------------------|---------------------------|-----------|-----------|--------------------|
| **Small 3.1 24B Instruct** | 80.62% | 66.76% | 69.30% | **44.42%** | **45.96%** | 74.71% | **88.41%**| **10.43%** |
| Gemma 3 27B IT | 76.90% | **67.50%** | **89.00%** | 36.83% | 42.40% | 74.40% | 87.80% | 10.00% |
| GPT4o Mini | **82.00%**| 61.70% | 70.20% | 40.20% | 39.39% | 84.82% | 87.20% | 9.50% |
| Claude 3.5 Haiku | 77.60% | 65.00% | 69.20% | 37.05% | 41.60% | **85.60%**| 88.10% | 8.02% |
| Cohere Aya-Vision 32B | 72.14% | 47.16% | 41.98% | 34.38% | 33.84% | 70.43% | 62.20% | 7.65% |
#### Vision
| Model | MMMU | MMMU PRO | Mathvista | ChartQA | DocVQA | AI2D | MM MT Bench |
|--------------------------------|------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-------------|-------------|
| **Small 3.1 24B Instruct** | 64.00% | **49.25%**| **68.91%**| 86.24% | **94.08%**| **93.72%** | **7.3** |
| Gemma 3 27B IT | **64.90%** | 48.38% | 67.60% | 76.00% | 86.60% | 84.50% | 7 |
| GPT4o Mini | 59.40% | 37.60% | 56.70% | 76.80% | 86.70% | 88.10% | 6.6 |
| Claude 3.5 Haiku | 60.50% | 45.03% | 61.60% | **87.20%**| 90.00% | 92.10% | 6.5 |
| Cohere Aya-Vision 32B | 48.20% | 31.50% | 50.10% | 63.04% | 72.40% | 82.57% | 4.1 |
### Multilingual Evals
| Model | Average | European | East Asian | Middle Eastern |
|--------------------------------|------------|------------|------------|----------------|
| **Small 3.1 24B Instruct** | **71.18%** | **75.30%** | **69.17%** | 69.08% |
| Gemma 3 27B IT | 70.19% | 74.14% | 65.65% | 70.76% |
| GPT4o Mini | 70.36% | 74.21% | 65.96% | **70.90%** |
| Claude 3.5 Haiku | 70.16% | 73.45% | 67.05% | 70.00% |
| Cohere Aya-Vision 32B | 62.15% | 64.70% | 57.61% | 64.12% |
### Long Context Evals
| Model | LongBench v2 | RULER 32K | RULER 128K |
|--------------------------------|-----------------|-------------|------------|
| **Small 3.1 24B Instruct** | **37.18%** | **93.96%** | 81.20% |
| Gemma 3 27B IT | 34.59% | 91.10% | 66.00% |
| GPT4o Mini | 29.30% | 90.20% | 65.8% |
| Claude 3.5 Haiku | 35.19% | 92.60% | **91.90%** |
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