---
base_model: DavidAU/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X
language:
- en
- fr
- zh
- de
library_name: transformers
license: apache-2.0
quantized_by: mradermacher
tags:
- creative
- creative writing
- fiction writing
- plot generation
- sub-plot generation
- fiction writing
- story generation
- scene continue
- storytelling
- fiction story
- science fiction
- romance
- all genres
- story
- writing
- vivid prose
- vivid writing
- moe
- mixture of experts
- 128 experts
- 8 active experts
- fiction
- roleplaying
- bfloat16
- rp
- qwen3
- horror
- finetune
- thinking
- reasoning
- qwen3_moe
---
## About

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static quants of https://huggingface.co/DavidAU/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X

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weighted/imatrix quants are available at https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X-i1-GGUF
## Usage

If you are unsure how to use GGUF files, refer to one of [TheBloke's
READMEs](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/KafkaLM-70B-German-V0.1-GGUF) for
more details, including on how to concatenate multi-part files.

## Provided Quants

(sorted by size, not necessarily quality. IQ-quants are often preferable over similar sized non-IQ quants)

| Link | Type | Size/GB | Notes |
|:-----|:-----|--------:|:------|
| [GGUF](https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X.Q2_K.gguf) | Q2_K | 15.7 |  |
| [GGUF](https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X.Q3_K_S.gguf) | Q3_K_S | 18.5 |  |
| [GGUF](https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X.Q3_K_M.gguf) | Q3_K_M | 20.5 | lower quality |
| [GGUF](https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X.Q3_K_L.gguf) | Q3_K_L | 22.1 |  |
| [GGUF](https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X.IQ4_XS.gguf) | IQ4_XS | 23.0 |  |
| [GGUF](https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X.Q4_K_S.gguf) | Q4_K_S | 24.3 | fast, recommended |
| [GGUF](https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X.Q4_K_M.gguf) | Q4_K_M | 25.8 | fast, recommended |
| [GGUF](https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X.Q5_K_S.gguf) | Q5_K_S | 29.3 |  |
| [GGUF](https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X.Q5_K_M.gguf) | Q5_K_M | 30.2 |  |
| [GGUF](https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X.Q6_K.gguf) | Q6_K | 34.9 | very good quality |
| [GGUF](https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X.Q8_0.gguf) | Q8_0 | 45.2 | fast, best quality |

Here is a handy graph by ikawrakow comparing some lower-quality quant
types (lower is better):

![image.png](https://www.nethype.de/huggingface_embed/quantpplgraph.png)

And here are Artefact2's thoughts on the matter:
https://gist.github.com/Artefact2/b5f810600771265fc1e39442288e8ec9

## FAQ / Model Request

See https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/model_requests for some answers to
questions you might have and/or if you want some other model quantized.

## Thanks

I thank my company, [nethype GmbH](https://www.nethype.de/), for letting
me use its servers and providing upgrades to my workstation to enable
this work in my free time.

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