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+ ---
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+ license: apache-2.0
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+ library_name: llama.cpp
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+ pipeline_tag: text-generation
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+ tags:
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+ - conversational
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+ - 1-bit
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+ - gguf
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+ - llama-cpp
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+ - cuda
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+ - metal
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+ - on-device
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+ - hybrid-attention
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+ - prismml
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+ - bonsai
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+ base_model:
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+ - Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B
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+ ---
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+
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+ <p align="center">
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+ <img src="./assets/bonsai-logo.svg" width="280" alt="Bonsai">
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+ </p>
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+
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+ <p align="center">
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+ <a href="https://prismml.com"><b>Prism ML Website</b></a> &nbsp;|&nbsp;
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+ <a href="https://github.com/PrismML-Eng/Bonsai-demo"><b>Whitepaper</b></a> &nbsp;|&nbsp;
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+ <a href="https://github.com/PrismML-Eng/Bonsai-demo"><b>Demo &amp; Examples</b></a> &nbsp;|&nbsp;
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+ <a href="https://discord.gg/prismml"><b>Discord</b></a>
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+ </p>
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+
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+ # 1-bit Bonsai 27B — GGUF
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+
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+ Full 27B-class reasoning in binary transformer weights, for llama.cpp (CUDA, Metal, CPU)
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+
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+ > **\~14.2x** smaller than FP16 | **\~90%** of FP16 intelligence retained | **\~44 tok/s** on an Apple M5 Pro laptop
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+
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+ ## Highlights
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+
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+ - **\~3.9 GB** deployed footprint (down from \~54 GB FP16) — a 27B model on everyday laptops and single GPUs
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+ - **Retains thinking, reasoning, and agentic behavior** deep in the sub-4-bit regime, where conventional low-bit representations collapse — 76.11 average across 15 thinking-mode benchmarks (89.5% of FP16), including math at 91.66 and coding at 81.88
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+ - **End-to-end binary language weights** across embeddings, attention projections, MLP projections, and LM head, at a *true* 1.125 bits per weight — no high-precision escape hatches behind a low-bit label; the vision tower ships in compact 4-bit HQQ
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+ - **262K-token context** on-device, kept practical by the Qwen3.6-27B hybrid-attention backbone (\~75% linear attention) and 4-bit KV-cache quantization
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+ - **GGUF Q1_0_g128** format with custom 1-bit hybrid-attention kernels for llama.cpp (CUDA, Metal) — packed weights are consumed directly, never expanded back to FP16
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+ - **Ships with a DSpark speculative-decoding drafter layer** trained against the Bonsai 27B target — a lossless **1.37x** decode speedup on the CUDA serving path
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+ - **MLX companion**: also available as [Bonsai-27B-mlx-1bit](https://huggingface.co/prism-ml/Bonsai-27B-mlx-1bit) for native Apple Silicon inference, including iPhone (\~11 tok/s on iPhone 17 Pro Max via MLX Swift)
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+ - **Ternary companion**: the quality-oriented operating point (\~7.2 GB, 95% of FP16) is also published in GGUF as [Ternary-Bonsai-27B-gguf](https://huggingface.co/prism-ml/Ternary-Bonsai-27B-gguf)
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+
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+ ## Resources
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+
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+ - **[Whitepaper](https://github.com/PrismML-Eng/Bonsai-demo/blob/main/bonsai-27b-whitepaper.pdf)** — full methodology, benchmarks, and measurement notes
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+ - **[Demo & examples](https://github.com/PrismML-Eng/Bonsai-demo)** — serving, benchmarking, and integrating Bonsai
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+ - **Low-bit kernels**: [llama.cpp fork](https://github.com/PrismML-Eng/llama.cpp) (CUDA + Metal) · [MLX fork](https://github.com/PrismML-Eng/mlx) (Apple Silicon) · [mlx-swift fork](https://github.com/PrismML-Eng/mlx-swift) (iOS/macOS)
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+ - **[Discord](https://discord.gg/prismml)** — join the community for support, discussion, and updates
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+
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+ ## Model Overview
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+
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+ | Item | Specification |
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+ | :---------------- | :----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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+ | Base model | Derived from Qwen3.6-27B, a 27B hybrid-attention causal language model (architecture unchanged) |
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+ | Parameters | \~27.3B binary language weights (\~24.8B backbone across 64 blocks + \~2.5B embedding/LM head) + \~0.46B vision tower (27 blocks) |
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+ | Architecture | Hybrid attention (\~75% linear / \~25% full attention), SwiGLU MLP, RoPE, RMSNorm |
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+ | Context length | 262K tokens (full-context capable on-device, enabled by the predominantly linear-attention backbone) |
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+ | KV cache | Near-lossless 4-bit KV quantization; the hybrid backbone grows a full-attention cache on only 16 of 64 layers (\~4.3 GB at the full 262K window) |
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+ | Weight format | GGUF Q1_0_g128: {−1, +1} weights with FP16 group-wise scaling |
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+ | Low-bit coverage | Embeddings, attention projections, MLP projections, LM head |
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+ | Vision tower | HQQ 4-bit; optional \~0.63 GB mmproj pack (Q8_0 container), loaded only for image input |
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+ | Deployed size | **\~3.9 GB** (\~14.2x smaller than FP16) |
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+ | Acceleration | DSpark speculative-decoding drafter layer provided |
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+ | Backends | llama.cpp (CUDA, Metal, CPU) |
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+ | License | Apache 2.0 |
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+
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+ ## Weight Representation: Q1_0_g128
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+
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+ Each weight is a single sign bit: `0` maps to `−scale`, `1` maps to `+scale`. Every group of 128 weights shares one FP16 scale factor.
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+ Effective bits per weight: **1.125** (1 sign bit + 16-bit scale amortized over 128 weights) — an idealized \~14.2x reduction vs FP16. This is the most aggressive operating point in the Bonsai 27B family: it minimizes both stored footprint and the weight traffic incurred at every decoding step. The GGUF Q1_0_g128 pack is the model's native layout — ideal and deployed sizes match.
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+
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+ ### Memory Requirement
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+
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+ | Format | True bits/weight | Size | Reduction |
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+ | :------------------ | ---------------: | ----------: | ----------: |
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+ | FP16 (baseline) | 16.0 | \~54 GB | 1.0x |
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+ | **GGUF Q1_0_g128** | **1.125** | **\~3.9 GB** | **\~14.2x** |
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+ The deployed figure describes the language model alone — the only component that must stay resident for text inference; a negligible tail of normalization and scale parameters remains in higher precision.
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+
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+ Unlike conventional low-bit builds — whose advertised labels understate their true average bit-width (a widely-used "2-bit" build of Qwen3.6-27B is really 2.8 bits/weight at 9.4 GB) — the Bonsai representation carries a bit-width that matches its name.
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+
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+ ### Shipped Components
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+
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+ Two optional components ship alongside the language model (on-disk sizes):
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+
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+ | Component | Pack | Size | Residency |
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+ | :------------- | :--------------------------------- | -------: | :--------------------------------- |
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+ | Language model | 1-bit g128 (Q1_0) | \~3.9 GB | resident |
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+ | DSpark drafter | Q4_1 (default) | 1.79 GB | optional — speculative decoding |
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+ | DSpark drafter | bf16 (reference) | 7.29 GB | optional |
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+ | Vision tower | mmproj HQQ 4-bit (Q8_0 container) | 0.63 GB | optional — multimodal input only |
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+ | Vision tower | mmproj BF16 (reference) | 0.93 GB | optional |
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+ The vision tower is usually offloaded: it sits outside the accelerator's resident budget and is loaded only when an image actually arrives, so text-only serving never pays for it.
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+ ### Peak Memory at Context
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+ What a device must actually accommodate is *peak* memory — weights plus KV cache plus activations and runtime buffers (\~1.3 GB across backends). Measured, language model only, no KV-cache compression (sizes in decimal GB; the Q4_K_XL row is derived from its weight footprint plus the same measured cache-and-overhead build-up, all other rows directly measured):
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+ | Build | Weights | 4K ctx | 10K ctx | 100K ctx |
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+ | :----------------------------------- | ------: | -----: | ------: | -------: |
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+ | **1-bit Bonsai (llama.cpp Q1_0)** | 3.79 | 5.2 | 5.6 | 11.6 |
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+ | Qwen3.6-27B "4-bit" (Q4_K_XL) | 17.6 | 19.2 | 19.6 | 25.6 |
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+ | 27B 16-bit (GGUF bf16) | 51.25 | 52.6 | 53.3 | 59.3 |
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+ The 1-bit build holds a **100K-token context at 11.6 GB without any KV-cache compression** — a budget that fits mainstream laptops outright; the conventional Q4_K_XL build needs \~25.6 GB before the first long document is loaded. These peaks are the conservative case, with the cache left at FP16. Enabling the 4-bit KV cache shrinks the context-dependent term \~4x: the 100K peak drops to \~6.8 GB, and the full 262K window fits in \~9.4 GB peak.
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+ ## Best Practices
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+ ### Generation Parameters
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+ | Parameter | Suggested |
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+ | Temperature | 0.7 |
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+ | Top-p | 0.95 |
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+ | Top-k | 20 |
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+ These are the settings used for all reported benchmark results (thinking mode).
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+ ### System Prompt
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+ You can use a simple system prompt such as:
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+ You are a helpful assistant
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+ ```
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+ ## Quickstart
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+ ### llama.cpp (CUDA)
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+ ```bash
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+ # Clone the PrismML fork of llama.cpp (includes the Q1_0_g128 hybrid-attention kernels)
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+ git clone https://github.com/PrismML-Eng/llama.cpp
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+ cd llama.cpp
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+ # Build with CUDA support
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+ cmake -B build -DGGML_CUDA=ON && cmake --build build -j
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+ # Download the 1-bit GGUF weights
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+ hf download prism-ml/Bonsai-27B-gguf Bonsai-27B-Q1_0.gguf --local-dir .
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+ # Run inference
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+ ./build/bin/llama-cli \
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+ -p "Explain quantum computing in simple terms." \
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+ ```
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+ ### llama.cpp (Metal / macOS)
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+ ```bash
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+ # Build with Metal support (default on macOS)
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+ cmake -B build && cmake --build build -j
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+ ./build/bin/llama-cli \
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+ -m Bonsai-27B-Q1_0.gguf \
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+ -p "Explain quantum computing in simple terms." \
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+ ```
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+ ### llama.cpp Server
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+ ```bash
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+ Open the web UI at [http://127.0.0.1:8080](http://127.0.0.1:8080), or see our [llama.cpp fork](https://github.com/PrismML-Eng/llama.cpp) for more examples.
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+ > **Deploying to a phone?** iPhone deployment uses the MLX Swift runtime — see [Bonsai-27B-mlx-1bit](https://huggingface.co/prism-ml/Bonsai-27B-mlx-1bit) (\~11 tok/s on iPhone 17 Pro Max).
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+ ## Cross-Platform Throughput
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+ `tg128` is token-generation throughput over 128 generated tokens (the memory-bandwidth-bound, interactive phase); `pp512` is prompt-processing throughput over 512 input tokens (the compute-bound phase). Both in tokens/s, measured with `llama-bench` on this GGUF pack (custom low-bit kernels).
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+ | Platform | Footprint | TG128 (tok/s) | PP512 (tok/s) |
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+ | Laptop (Apple M5 Max, Metal) | 3.9 GB | 66.4 | 874 |
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+ | Laptop (Apple M5 Pro, Metal) | 3.9 GB | 44.2 | 421 |
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+ | Laptop (Apple M4 Pro, Metal) | 3.9 GB | 26.0 | 133 |
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+ | Single GPU (H100, CUDA) | 3.9 GB | 104.8 | 2755 |
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+ On the edge platforms the FP16 baseline (\~54 GB) and even conventional "4-bit" builds (17.6 GB) do not fit at all — the meaningful statement is not a speedup ratio but that a 27B model runs on the device in the first place. The H100 row is the exception that proves the rule: at batch size 1 a datacenter GPU is limited by kernel-launch and synchronization latency rather than weight bandwidth, so the binary and ternary variants converge there (104.8 vs 98 tok/s) despite their \~1.9x difference in bytes per step.
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+ ## Speculative Decoding: DSpark
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+ 1-bit Bonsai 27B ships with a **DSpark** drafter layer trained against the low-bit target — a semi-autoregressive drafter with confidence-scheduled verification. Speculative decoding is lossless: verification preserves the target distribution exactly, so accepted tokens are indistinguishable from ordinary generation.
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+ The drafter is a compact **six-layer block-parallel transformer** conditioned on hidden states tapped from five evenly spaced layers of the target; its drafter-unique weights add roughly **0.5 GB at serving precision** (embeddings and output head are shared with the resident target). It follows the DSpark recipe with a diffusion-flavored block-denoising objective, survival-probability-weighted distillation, per-source-normalized hidden-state taps, and a draft block size chosen from a measured verify-cost model of the serving stack. The drafter ships 4-bit quantized — the \~1.79 GB Q4_1 pack is the default; it drafts faster than the bf16 reference at essentially unchanged draft quality, and because verification preserves the target distribution exactly, drafter precision affects only speed, never output quality.
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+ On the CUDA serving path the drafter is a measured net win — an accepted length of τ ≈ 3.6 at draft depth k = 4 turns into a **1.37x** end-to-end decode speedup on H100 (104.8 → 143.8 tok/s). On Apple Silicon the batch-1 verification pass does not yet amortize, so the drafter layer is not enabled by default on-device.
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+ ## Benchmarks
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+ Evaluated with EvalScope + vLLM on NVIDIA H100 under identical infrastructure, decoding, and scoring, in **thinking mode** — where the model's full reasoning is exercised and the sub-4-bit collapse of conventional methods is most visible. 15 benchmarks across six skill categories. For cross-family context the table also includes Gemma-4-31B, a model of the same capability tier, with its conventional low-bit builds — the collapse below 4 bits is a property of the methods, not of one base model. Bit-widths are true averages; "vs FP16" is relative to the Qwen3.6-27B FP16 reference.
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+ | Variant | True bpw | Footprint | Thinking avg | vs FP16 |
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+ | Qwen3.6-27B FP16 | 16.0 | 54 GB | 85.07 | 100% |
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+ | Qwen3.6-27B Q4_K_XL ("4-bit") | 5.2 | 17.6 GB | 84.99 | 99.9% |
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+ | Qwen3.6-27B IQ2_XXS ("2-bit") | 2.8 | 9.4 GB | 72.73 | 85.5% |
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+ | Gemma-4-31B FP16 | 16.0 | 61.5 GB | 84.58 | 99.4% |
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+ | Gemma-4-31B QAT ("4-bit") | 6.0 | 23.3 GB | 83.41 | 98.0% |
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+ | Gemma-4-31B Q2_K_XL ("2-bit") | 3.0 | 11.8 GB | 73.31 | 86.2% |
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+ | Ternary Bonsai 27B | 1.71 | 5.9 GB | 80.49 | 94.6% |
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+ | **1-bit Bonsai 27B** | **1.125** | **3.9 GB** | **76.11** | **89.5%** |
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+ The aggregate gap also understates *how* the conventional builds fail: their degradation is selective, concentrated on the benchmarks that demand sustained chains of reasoning. IQ2_XXS falls to 57.5 on AIME26 and 56.4 on LiveCodeBench while still scoring 88.93 on MMLU-Redux — which is why casual testing misses the collapse. 1-bit Bonsai holds exactly these benchmarks, keeping AIME above 87 at a third of IQ2_XXS's footprint.
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+ | Knowledge & reasoning | MMLU-Redux, MuSR | 83.15 | 73.39 |
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+ | Math | GSM8K, MATH-500, AIME25, AIME26 | 95.33 | 91.66 |
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+ | Coding | HumanEval+, MBPP+, LiveCodeBench | 88.74 | 81.88 |
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+ | Instruction following | IFEval, IFBench | 78.47 | 65.74 |
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+ | Agentic / tool calling | BFCL v3, τ²-Bench | 80.00 | 66.03 |
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+ | Vision | MMMU-Pro, OCR Bench v2 | 72.61 | 59.57 |
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+ | **Overall (15)** | | **85.07** | **76.11** |
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+ The reasoning backbone comes through intact: math stays at 91.66 — within four points of full precision — and coding at 81.88, the behaviors that conventional sub-4-bit representations lose first. The 1-bit model trades part of the ternary model's margin on the most demanding categories for the smallest footprint in the family.
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+ <summary>Expand full per-benchmark results (thinking mode)</summary>
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+ | MMLU-Redux | 93.42 | 82.75 |
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+ | MuSR | 72.88 | 64.02 |
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+ | GSM8K | 95.30 | 92.80 |
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+ | MATH-500 | 99.40 | 98.00 |
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+ | AIME25 | 93.29 | 88.75 |
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+ | AIME26 | 93.33 | 87.08 |
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+ | HumanEval+ | 95.12 | 89.63 |
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+ | MBPP+ | 83.33 | 79.60 |
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+ | LiveCodeBench | 87.77 | 76.40 |
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+ | IFEval | 88.91 | 79.11 |
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+ | IFBench (prompt-loose) | 68.03 | 52.36 |
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+ | BFCL v3 | 77.10 | 70.72 |
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+ | τ²-Bench | 82.90 | 61.34 |
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+ | MMMU-Pro | 79.94 | 60.48 |
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+ | OCR Bench v2 | 65.28 | 58.65 |
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+ | **Average (15)** | **85.07** | **76.11** |
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+ ## Intelligence Density
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+ Intelligence density captures the ratio of a model's capability to its deployed size:
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+ | Variant | Size (GB) | Benchmark avg | Intelligence Density (1/GB) |
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+ | :---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------: | -----------: | --------------------------: |
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+ | **1-bit Bonsai 27B** | **3.9** | 76.11 | **0.530** |
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+ | Ternary Bonsai 27B | 5.9 | 80.49 | 0.400 |
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+ | Qwen3.6-27B IQ2_XXS | 9.4 | 72.73 | 0.199 |
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+ | Gemma-4-31B Q2_K_XL | 11.8 | 73.31 | 0.162 |
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+ | Qwen3.6-27B Q4_K_XL | 17.6 | 84.99 | 0.155 |
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+ | Gemma-4-31B QAT | 23.3 | 83.41 | 0.111 |
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+ | Qwen3.6-27B FP16 | 54 | 85.07 | 0.051 |
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+ | Gemma-4-31B FP16 | 61.5 | 84.58 | 0.044 |
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+ 1-bit Bonsai 27B delivers roughly **2.7x** the density of the densest conventional build (IQ2_XXS at 0.199) and over **10x** FP16 — no conventional build of Qwen3.6-27B or Gemma-4-31B exceeds 0.2. Each stored gigabyte is translated into far more usable intelligence.
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+ ## Use Cases
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+ - **Laptop-local 27B agents**: full 27B reasoning and tool use on any standard laptop at \~26–66 tok/s (M4 Pro through M5 Max), with the 262K context available for long-document analysis and full-repository code work
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+ - **Privacy-sensitive and offline settings**: on-device execution keeps prompts and data on the device by construction, and works with intermittent or no connectivity
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+ - **Single-GPU and commodity-GPU serving**: 27B-class quality from a single consumer or entry-level datacenter GPU, with headroom for larger batches, longer contexts, or co-resident models — combined with the KV-cache quantization, high-throughput serving and long-context document analysis become practical on a single 24 GB GPU
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+ - **Phone deployment via MLX**: the same weights ship as [Bonsai-27B-mlx-1bit](https://huggingface.co/prism-ml/Bonsai-27B-mlx-1bit) — the first 27B-class model to run on a phone
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+ ## Limitations
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+ - **The quality–footprint trade-off**: the binary model retains 89.5% of the full-precision average, and the gap is modest and predictable — the reasoning core (math, coding) stays within a few points of baseline, with the difference concentrated in the most demanding categories; if quality is the priority, consider the ternary GGUF build (94.6%)
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+ - **Agentic coding** (long-horizon, multi-file, run-test-and-repair workflows) is not yet a strong target of this release; a Bonsai 27B variant tuned for agentic coding is next on the roadmap
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+ - **KV compression headroom**: this release standardizes on a 4-bit KV cache; Bonsai's tolerance to KV-cache error grows with context length, and early results show the key cache can be pushed toward the sub-2-bit regime — a path to still longer contexts within a fixed device-memory budget
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+ ## Citation
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+ If you use 1-bit Bonsai 27B, please cite:
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+ ```bibtex
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+ @techreport{bonsai27b,
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+ title = {Bonsai 27B: Full 27B-Class Reasoning in Binary and Ternary
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+ Transformer Weights --- on Laptops and Phones},
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+ author = {Prism ML},
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+ year = {2026},
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+ month = {July},
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+ url = {https://prismml.com}
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+ }
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+ ```
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+ ## Contact
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+ For questions, feedback, or collaboration inquiries: **contact@prismml.com**
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