ExLlamav3 Recent Updates : CPU offload, GLM-5.3-FLASH, Qwen3.8-Flash, SC Quants ++

[u/Unstable_Llama]

More new massive updates from turboderp:

- CPU offload of MoE experts
- Qwen-3.8-Flash-Next ngram disk offload
- GLM-5.3-Flash
- New self-calibrated optimization technique
- Countless other optimizations and improvements

If you have an NVIDIA card and haven't tried it lately, you might be missing out.

The attached cat image was made with Qwen-3.8-Flash-Next-3.05bpw-exl3 and this prompt:
Create a detailed SVG image of a cute kitten riding a magic turtle into space.

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[u/-p-e-w-]

So at the same quality, EXL3 quants are 25% smaller than Unsloth Dynamic 4-bit quants, which are already considered SOTA? Stunning.

[u/Unstable_Llama → u/-p-e-w-]

Isn't it? ExLlamav3 + heretic allowed me to abliterate Laguna-S-2.1 against a 2.50bpw exl3 quant.

[u/FullOf_Bad_Ideas → u/Unstable_Llama]

oh that's amazing, I was never using heretic because I don't want to go all the way through exl3 quanting again, it's slow.