๐Ÿ’ป Gemma-4-12B-Coder (fable5 ร— composer2.5) โ€” imatrix GGUF โœจ

Runs anywhere llama.cpp runs โ€” AMD/Vulkan, CPU, Apple, NVIDIA. No Blackwell, no MTP, just GGUF. ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽ๐ŸชŸ

Importance-matrix (imatrix) quants of yuxinlu1's coding model, calibrated on real Python coding data so the low-bit builds keep their coding smarts. Text-only (a coding model โ€” no vision baggage). ๐Ÿ’š


๐Ÿ™ Credit

Quants of yuxinlu1/gemma-4-12B-coder-fable5-composer2.5-v1 โ€” all thanks to @yuxinlu1 for the model. โญ the original and watch it for a v2! The author's recipe: a fine-tune of google/gemma-4-12B-it on execution-verified Python coding chains-of-thought (Composer 2.5 real CoT + a Fable 5 "second-attempt" set for the hard cases). It thinks in Gemma's native channel, then writes clean, runnable code. De-refused; Python/algorithmic focus; English-centric.

Why this repo: the originals are static GGUF. These add an importance matrix (code-calibrated) so IQ4_XS / Q4_K keep more quality at low VRAM โ€” the builds that fly for AMD/Vulkan and CPU folks.


๐Ÿ“ฆ Pick your quant (all imatrix)

Quant Size Vibe
๐ŸŸข Q3_K_S 5.53 GB smallest that works โ€” for 8 GB / 6 GB cards (leaves room for context). ~91.7% HumanEval[:12]
๐ŸŸข Q3_K_M 6.09 GB tiny and sharp โ€” 100% HumanEval[:15]
๐Ÿ”ต IQ4_XS 6.64 GB the imatrix 4-bit sweet spot โ€” 100% HumanEval[:15]
๐Ÿ”ต Q4_K_M 7.38 GB balanced (embeddings/output at Q6_K)
โšช Q5_K_M 8.55 GB quality-first if you have the RAM/VRAM

๐Ÿ’ก 8 GB VRAM (or 6 GB): grab Q3_K_S (5.5 GB) โ€” it leaves headroom for context and still codes well. On the Vulkan backend (AMD) all of these fly. โš ๏ธ Avoid IQ3 (i-quant 3-bit) for this model โ€” IQ3_XXS/IQ3_S collapse to gibberish here (gemma-4's special attention layers don't survive 3-bit i-quants). The Q3_K_* K-quants stay coherent at the same size โ€” that's why the small tiers are Q3_K, not IQ3.


๐Ÿš€ Run it (llama.cpp โ€” any backend)

# build llama.cpp with your backend (Vulkan for AMD):  cmake -B build -DGGML_VULKAN=ON && cmake --build build
# grab one quant:
hf download sakamakismile/gemma-4-12B-coder-fable5-composer2.5-GGUF gemma-4-12B-coder-fable5-composer2.5-IQ4_XS.gguf --local-dir .

# chat server (OpenAI-compatible at http://localhost:8080)
./llama-server -m gemma-4-12B-coder-fable5-composer2.5-IQ4_XS.gguf \
  -ngl 99 --ctx-size 16384 -fa on --jinja \
  --temp 1.0 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 64 --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8080

โš ๏ธ Needs a recent llama.cpp โ€” this is the gemma4 architecture (older builds won't load it). ๐Ÿง  Thinking is on by default via the chat template (--jinja). The model reasons through edge cases, then writes the code. For deterministic coding use --temp 0.

๐Ÿฆ™ Ollama (one line, straight from this repo)

ollama run hf.co/sakamakismile/gemma-4-12B-coder-fable5-composer2.5-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Pick any tag: Q3_K_S Q3_K_M IQ4_XS Q4_K_M Q5_K_M.

โ— "manifest not found"? You must include both the hf.co/ prefix and an explicit quant tag. Without a tag, Ollama looks for :latest (which doesn't exist here); without hf.co/, it searches Ollama's own registry instead of this repo. The fix is just โ€ฆ-GGUF:Q4_K_M.

Also works in LM Studio / Jan / KoboldCpp โ€” import the GGUF, pick a quant, go. ๐Ÿพ


๐Ÿ“Š How good is it? (greedy pass@1)

Benchmark Score
HumanEval 90.2% (148/164)
MBPP 85.7% (366/427)

Strong at hard algorithms, bug-fixing & refactoring, and faithful open reasoning. Japanese prompts cause no measurable Python-quality drop.

โš ๏ธ One honest caveat: on time-series / quant-finance code it can introduce a look-ahead bias (and its reasoning may state the right rule while the code does the opposite). Great algorithm/debug helper โ€” but review its pandas/numpy back-test code before trusting it.


๐Ÿ”ง Quant details

  • imatrix computed on a code-heavy calibration set (HumanEval + MBPP problems & solutions) so the importance matrix reflects real coding activations.
  • Source: the author's Q8_0 GGUF (โ‰ˆlossless). Text-only gemma4 (no vision/audio).
  • Higher tiers keep token-embeddings & output tensors at Q6_K (K-quant default) for fidelity where it matters most; the Q3_K tiers trade a little there for size.
  • K-quants over i-quants here: gemma-4's heterogeneous attention (head_dim 256 / 512 layers) survives Q3_K_* but collapses under IQ3_* โ€” verified, so the small tiers ship as Q3_K.

๐Ÿ“š License & use

Gemma Terms of Use (derivatives must comply). De-refused / not safety-aligned โ€” add your own guardrails. Best on Python/algorithmic tasks; double-check general facts and time-series code. Shared as-is. Quants & eval by Lna-Lab; thanks to @yuxinlu1. ๐Ÿพโœจ

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