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Anyone knows anything about this Quantized K3.1m Worth it?

A Reddit user posted about a quantized, expert-pruned checkpoint derived from moonshotai/Kimi-K3.1-Pro, noting it removes 75% of routed experts and is intended for vLLM serving and evaluation smoke tests. The user states it is a calibration-free, safetensors-only prototype with expected large quality regression relative to the source model. The checkpoint loads and serves on eight NVIDIA H200…

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  • Checkpoint removes 75% of routed experts, retaining 224 per MoE layer from original 896
  • On-disk size is about 443G across 96 safetensors shards plus weight index
  • Served on 8x NVIDIA H200 GPUs with TP=8, steady GPU memory ~127,797 MiB per GPU

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Anyone knows anything about this Quantized K3.1m Worth it?

huggingface.co · 5 November 2026

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