How to Run Underdog Saluki 27B: 2-Bit Qwen3.8-27B Tool-Calling Guide
In this tutorial, we work with Underdog Saluki 27B, a 7.9 GB build of Qwen3.8-27B that its makers say keeps tool calling intact at about two bits per weight and even edges out the full 54 GB model on their own 120-task benchmark. Saluki is built on ISTA-DASLab’s GSQ-RCO quantization of the same model, so we put both files side by side in stock llama.cpp. We start with the files themselves: a tensor-by-tensor diff of the two GGUF headers, then a byte-level comparison that shows whether Sal
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