Side-by-side comparison of GGUF quantizations of two tiny pony language models — Nano (32M) and Brat (103M), trained from scratch on MLP fandom prose and supervised on roleplay dialogue. The same prompt and the same seed go to every selected quantization, so the difference you see is exactly what compression costs. Everything runs in your browser via llama.cpp compiled to WebAssembly — no server, no API key.
Perplexity measured with llama-perplexity on the same held-out 300-token English text
for every file and for the bf16 original. Below Q4 the model keeps the topic and the format but loses
voice and coherence; Q2 files are published for size experiments only.
<system>{persona}<user>{message}<assistant>{reply}<eos> — tags concatenated, no spaces.
Its bos_token is <eos>, so no BOS is added; the published GGUF files already carry
add_bos_token = false.