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Show HN: Shoehorn – Quantize any model down to run on your machine (notactuallytreyanastasio.github.io)
akshay_akula 3 days ago [-]
This is interesting. I wonder how it could work with something like https://github.com/JustVugg/colibri.
jedbrooke 1 days ago [-]
I gotta laugh at some of the models it suggests, for example:

> AnkitAI/Parable-Qwen3-4B-Claude-Fable-5-GGUF

you’re telling me you managed to fit Fable 5 into just 4B?

mannyv 18 hours ago [-]
Fyi that model name to me reads

Qwen3 4b params distilled/trained with fable 5

chompychop 1 days ago [-]
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metalliqaz 1 days ago [-]
Well to be fair here... the title of this post doesn't mention fine tuning, it mentions quantization.
unrented7977 1 days ago [-]
Don't make fun of people you think are ignorant, it's a pretty shitty look
chompychop 1 days ago [-]
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hmokiguess 4 days ago [-]
rhgraysonii 4 days ago [-]
LLMFit tells you what can run on something. I built something quite similar to their search into Shoehorn now.
puttycat 1 days ago [-]
This is really impressive. Can you say a bit about the underlying process? I'm guessing this is post-training qantization? Isn't PTQ also resource-intensive? (Ie might not work on any machine)
sscarduzio 1 days ago [-]
The project name is perfect!
mbuchel-hn 4 days ago [-]
does this work similar to airllm? i am wondering how it would handle something like quantizing kimi k3 on a budget of 8 gbs, or is that something you are not attempting to solve yet?
rhgraysonii 4 days ago [-]
Yes that is exactly what this does.
kennywinker 4 days ago [-]
Could you explain what happens when you try to shoehorn a 2.4T parameter model into a 24gb m4 mac?
akshay_akula 3 days ago [-]
Wondering the same thing but for 48gb M5 Max.
metalliqaz 1 days ago [-]
extreme divergence would be my guess
jaylane 4 days ago [-]
tried it out but based on the model sizing result i got i got an insufficient memory error when the server started running
rhgraysonii 4 days ago [-]
If you could post an issue if you still have the error around that would be awesome.
vancekai 11 hours ago [-]
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kelvo_ran 3 days ago [-]
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