--- 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 weighted/imatrix quants of https://huggingface.co/DavidAU/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X static quants are available at https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X-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-i1-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X.i1-IQ2_M.gguf) | i1-IQ2_M | 14.1 | | | [GGUF](https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X-i1-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X.i1-Q2_K_S.gguf) | i1-Q2_K_S | 14.6 | very low quality | | [GGUF](https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X-i1-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X.i1-Q2_K.gguf) | i1-Q2_K | 15.7 | IQ3_XXS probably better | | [GGUF](https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X-i1-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X.i1-IQ3_XXS.gguf) | i1-IQ3_XXS | 16.5 | lower quality | | [GGUF](https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X-i1-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X.i1-IQ3_XS.gguf) | i1-IQ3_XS | 17.5 | | | [GGUF](https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X-i1-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X.i1-Q3_K_S.gguf) | i1-Q3_K_S | 18.5 | IQ3_XS probably better | | [GGUF](https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X-i1-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X.i1-IQ3_S.gguf) | i1-IQ3_S | 18.5 | beats Q3_K* | | [GGUF](https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X-i1-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X.i1-IQ3_M.gguf) | i1-IQ3_M | 18.8 | | | [GGUF](https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X-i1-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X.i1-Q3_K_M.gguf) | i1-Q3_K_M | 20.5 | IQ3_S probably better | | [GGUF](https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X-i1-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X.i1-Q3_K_L.gguf) | i1-Q3_K_L | 22.1 | IQ3_M probably better | | [GGUF](https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X-i1-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X.i1-IQ4_XS.gguf) | i1-IQ4_XS | 22.8 | | | [GGUF](https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X-i1-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X.i1-Q4_0.gguf) | i1-Q4_0 | 24.2 | fast, low quality | | [GGUF](https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X-i1-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X.i1-Q4_K_S.gguf) | i1-Q4_K_S | 24.3 | optimal size/speed/quality | | [GGUF](https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X-i1-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X.i1-Q4_K_M.gguf) | i1-Q4_K_M | 25.8 | fast, recommended | | [GGUF](https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X-i1-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X.i1-Q4_1.gguf) | i1-Q4_1 | 26.7 | | | [GGUF](https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X-i1-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X.i1-Q5_K_S.gguf) | i1-Q5_K_S | 29.3 | | | [GGUF](https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X-i1-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X.i1-Q5_K_M.gguf) | i1-Q5_K_M | 30.2 | | | [GGUF](https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X-i1-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-42B-A3B-Stranger-Thoughts-Deep20X.i1-Q6_K.gguf) | i1-Q6_K | 34.9 | practically like static Q6_K | 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. Additional thanks to [@nicoboss](https://huggingface.co/nicoboss) for giving me access to his private supercomputer, enabling me to provide many more imatrix quants, at much higher quality, than I would otherwise be able to.