Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B โ€” APEX-MTP-Fixed

Repaired multi-token-prediction (MTP) head build of Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B, exported as GGUF.

The stock Ornith-1.5 MTP head shipped untrained โ€” its RMSNorm scales read garbage (~1e31 / NaN) โ€” so speculative decoding was dead on arrival. This build splices in the Avifenesh continued-trained MTP head (dequantized NVFP4 โ†’ f32 โ†’ Q8_0), restoring a properly-trained head so in-model MTP speculative decoding actually works.

Verified model facts (read from this exact GGUF)

Property Value
Architecture qwen35moe
Parameters 35.505B total (256 experts, 8 active, ~2.6B active per token)
Context length 262,144 (256k)
Decoder blocks 41
MTP nextn_predict_layers = 1 (MTP spec-decode enabled)
Embedding dim 2048, RoPE base 1e7, full-attention every 4th layer, SSM layers

Quantization (verified from the blob)

Component GGML type Count
Routed experts Q4_K 221
Higher-precision layers Q6_K 121
Deepest-compressed experts Q3_K 90
MTP head (blk.40) Q8_0 11
MTP head norms F32 9
Norms / embeddings F32 310
File size 17.44 GB (17,437,861,152 B)

The MTP head fix

  • Original head: untrained โ€” RMSNorm scales read garbage (~1e31, NaN), so spec-decode output was nonsense.
  • Avifenesh continued-trained head: RMSNorm scales 0.97โ€“1.05 (a properly trained head).
  • Effect: fixes depth-2/3 prediction collapse (0.80/0.27/0.13 โ†’ 0.81/0.58/0.43) and lifts draft acceptance โ‰ˆ 0.352 โ†’ 0.431.
  • Splice integrity: NVFP4 โ†’ f32 โ†’ Q8_0 round-trip, MSE 0.000000 (lossless).

Usage

Runs on llama.cpp and Ollama (both honor qwen35moe MTP via nextn_predict_layers=1). Fast on a 4070-class GPU.

# Ollama (also published there)
ollama run slickwillies/ornith15-35b-a3b-apex-mtp-fixed

Acknowledgements

  • Base: ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B
  • Trained MTP head: Avifenesh continued-training
  • GGUF base: mudler/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-APEX-MTP-GGUF (APEX-MTP-Compact)
  • Splice + repack: configur8tor
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