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base_model: GestaltLabs/Ornstein-3.6-27B-RYS
language:
  - en
license: apache-2.0
pipeline_tag: text-generation
tags:
  - gguf
  - llama.cpp
  - qwen3.5
  - qwen3.6
  - rys
  - text-generation
  - quantized
  - canada
  - sovereign-ai

[Ornstein-3.6-27B-RYS

Ornstein-3.6-27B-RYS-GGUF

GGUF quantizations of GestaltLabs/Ornstein-3.6-27B-RYS — the RYS-enhanced dense Ornstein model.

About Gestalt Lab

We are a proudly Canadian research collective working to advance sovereign Canadian AI — open-weight models that Canadians (and everyone else) can run locally, study, and build on without dependence on closed foreign APIs. All training, fine-tuning, and quantization is done on local and self-funded compute. By supporting this work, you help keep frontier model development accessible, transparent, and under Canadian stewardship.

Important: requires a patched llama.cpp

RYS duplicates one of the middle layers, which breaks the hardcoded full_attention_interval = 4 assumption in stock llama.cpp's Qwen3.5 loader. These GGUFs are re-converted with per-layer head_count_kv baked in, and you need a llama.cpp that reads that per-layer metadata instead of falling back to the interval formula.

Patched fork: https://github.com/DJLougen/llama.cpp (default branch rys-qwen35, one commit on top of ggml-org/llama.cpp@d00685831, fully backward-compatible).

Stock llama.cpp, Ollama, LM Studio, and any other inference runtime built on stock llama.cpp will currently fail to load these files with a check_tensor_dims error on blk.33 — this is expected until/unless the patch is upstreamed.

Support This Work

Our training compute is entirely self-funded. If this model is useful to you, consider supporting the lab:

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Available Quantizations

File Quant Size Notes
ornstein-3.6-27b-rys-q8_0.gguf Q8_0 ~27 GB Near-lossless, largest
ornstein-3.6-27b-rys-q6_k.gguf Q6_K ~21 GB Very high quality
ornstein-3.6-27b-rys-q5_k_m.gguf Q5_K_M ~18 GB Strong quality/size balance
ornstein-3.6-27b-rys-q4_k_m.gguf Q4_K_M ~16 GB Recommended default
ornstein-3.6-27b-rys-q3_k_m.gguf Q3_K_M ~12 GB Low-memory option

Model Lineage

Qwen 3.6 27B → Ornstein3.6 (DDM fine-tune) → RYS (layer 33 dup, +49%)

Model Details

  • Architecture: Qwen3.5 dense
  • Parameters: ~27B active
  • Layers: 65 (64 original + 1 RYS-duplicated layer 33)
  • Context: 131,072 tokens
  • GGUF metadata: per-layer head_count_kv array encoding the RYS-shifted attention pattern

Usage

Build the patched llama.cpp

git clone https://github.com/DJLougen/llama.cpp.git
cd llama.cpp
git checkout rys-qwen35
cmake -B build -DGGML_CUDA=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
cmake --build build -j

Drop -DGGML_CUDA=ON for a CPU-only build. The patch touches the GGUF loader and three model forward files; backend selection is independent.

Download + run

hf download GestaltLabs/Ornstein-3.6-27B-RYS-GGUF \
    ornstein-3.6-27b-rys-q4_k_m.gguf \
    --local-dir .

./build/bin/llama-server \
    -m ornstein-3.6-27b-rys-q4_k_m.gguf \
    --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8080 \
    --n-gpu-layers 99 --ctx-size 131072 \
    --flash-attn on --jinja \
    -ctk q4_0 -ctv q4_0

License

Apache 2.0