Parable-Granite-4.1-3B-Claude-Fable-5-GGUF

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🪶 Parable-Granite-3B v2 — trained on genuine Claude Fable 5 agent traces

A tiny local model that thinks before it answers — planning, reasoning, and terminal instincts distilled from real agent sessions.

~3 GB of RAM is all you need. Laptop, old GPU, Raspberry-Pi-class boxes with swap — the Q4 build runs anywhere. One command and you have a private, offline reasoning model on your machine:

ollama run hf.co/AnkitAI/Parable-Granite-4.1-3B-Claude-Fable-5-GGUF:Q4_K_M

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The headline — v2 is a different model

v2 is a full retrain: 13× more genuine Fable 5 trace data (11,574 sessions, 16.8M tokens — corpus published) and a rebuilt recipe (completion-masked loss, replay mixing, benchmark-gated checkpoints, seed-averaged weights).

Clean answers, structured reasoning, agent instincts — and the transcript artifacts that leaked into v1's replies are gone. One trade, made on purpose: raw HumanEval-style function synthesis stays the base model's turf (81.7 vs 70.1) — v2 spends that capacity on agent behavior instead, and spends half as much as v1 did. Measurement notes below. 👇

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Announcements

📌 Same links, new model. v2 replaces v1 in place — every existing Ollama command, script, and bookmark now serves v2. No migration, nothing to change.

🔮 v3 is already training. Rejection-sampled SFT: thousands of candidate solutions generated against executable tests, only verified passers enter the corpus. The goal is simple — above-base agent capability, not just clean behavior. Follow AnkitAI for the drop.

📦 Full family. This 3B is the smallest Parable. Need more headroom? 8B Granite, 8B Qwen, 4B Qwen — same recipe, no matter your hardware.

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Pick your size

Intelligence per gigabyte: the Q4_K_M build scores 70.1 HumanEval in 2.1 GB — ~33 pts/GB; an 8B-class Q4 needs ~5 GB for its score. If RAM is your constraint, this is the family's density sweet spot.

Full-precision safetensors (vLLM, transformers, further fine-tuning): Parable-Granite-4.1-3B-Claude-Fable-5

How to run it

Ollama (chat template ships inside the GGUF — zero config):

ollama run parable/granite4.1-fable:3b
# or straight from this repo:
ollama run hf.co/AnkitAI/Parable-Granite-4.1-3B-Claude-Fable-5-GGUF:Q4_K_M

llama.cpp:

llama-cli -m Parable-Granite-4.1-3B-Claude-Fable-5-GGUF-Q4_K_M.gguf --jinja \
  -p "Write a bash one-liner to find the 10 largest files in a directory tree."

LM Studio / Jan / Open WebUI: search "parable" in-app, or paste this repo URL.

Python (llama-cpp-python):

from llama_cpp import Llama

llm = Llama.from_pretrained(
    repo_id="AnkitAI/Parable-Granite-4.1-3B-Claude-Fable-5-GGUF",
    filename="*Q4_K_M.gguf", n_ctx=8192,
)
out = llm.create_chat_completion(
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Write a Python function that retries an HTTP request with exponential backoff."}],
    max_tokens=3000, temperature=0.7,
)
print(out["choices"][0]["message"]["content"])

Thinking mode

Every answer opens with a <think>...</think> reasoning block — that's the Fable 5 heritage. llama.cpp's --jinja mode separates it automatically; strip it before showing replies to end users. Sampling: temperature 0.7, top_p 0.95, and budget max_tokens generously (2500+) — trace-trained models think at length before answering.

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Measurement notes

All numbers: identical llama.cpp harness, greedy decoding, Q4_K_M, base model measured on the same instrument. We train multiple seeds and ship the weight-average — single-run scores at 3B swing ±3 points on GPU nondeterminism alone, so most cards report their luckiest run; we ship the average and report the shipped weights' own numbers. Raw eval outputs live in this repo.

Which model should you use? Pure single-function code completion → the base model is genuinely strong there. Explanations, debugging, terminal workflows, structured reasoning, agent-style tasks → that's what Parable is trained on, and where v2 shines.

🆚 Same prompt, side by side

Real outputs, both models at Q4_K_M, temperature 0.7 — unedited except length.

Prompt: "Make this more idiomatic:" result = []; for x in items: if x.active == True: result.append(x.name.upper())

Prompt: "My Python script fails with 'RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded' in a JSON parser I wrote. What are the likely causes and the standard fix?"

The pattern from real agent traces: answer first, structure over prose, no padding. (Where the base is stronger — raw single-function synthesis — is stated plainly in the measurement notes above.)

What's new in v2 (training)

The recipe follows our ongoing tech report (in preparation):

• Completion-only loss masking (Hermes 3, Tülu 3) — loss on assistant tokens only, so the model learns to answer, not to imitate transcripts
• 30% replay mix of general instruction data (Luo et al., Biderman et al.) — the anti-forgetting lever
• Session re-segmentation + sanitization — why v1 sometimes leaked agent JSON into normal chat, and v2 never does (0/34)
• Benchmark-gated checkpoints (Dong et al.) instead of fixed epochs
• Seed-averaged weights (model soups, Wortsman et al.) — we ship the average of multiple runs, not the lottery winner

With Claude Fable 5 now retired, genuine self-authored Fable traces are a fixed, non-renewable corpus. Unlike most models in this niche, our full training corpus is public: AnkitAI/parable-corpus-v2 — deduplicated, quality-gated, provenance-tagged.

Good to know

• Fine-tuned at 2,048-token sequences; the base 128K context stays available, fine-tuned behavior is strongest in the opening turns.
• Not trained for: multi-file repo navigation, vision, non-English.
• Inherits Granite-4.1-3B's knowledge cutoff. Treat generated commands as drafts to review.

Evaluation

Function calling (BFCL V3, AST subset)

Measured 2026-07-29: bfcl-eval at gorilla main, prompting mode, Q4_K_M GGUFs served by llama.cpp on a T4, base and Parable under the identical harness. Categories: simple_python / multiple / parallel / parallel_multiple (400/200/200/200 items). Raw generations and score files: parable-v2-artifacts under verify/bfcl/.

For tool-calling workloads, use the base model; this variant is built for reasoning prose. The drop has a specific mechanism: sampled generations show the model intermittently answering with args-only tool-call JSON (for example {"base": 10, "height": 5}) instead of a function call, which the AST scorer rejects. That is trace-scaffolding format bleeding into standalone tasks, the failure mode the series paper names session leakage (Section 6 of the report). The reasoning-voice strengths this variant trains for are unaffected on prose tasks.

Base & license

Weights: Apache-2.0 (inherited from ibm-granite/granite-4.1-3b). Training data: Fable-5-traces AGPL-3.0, gpt5.5-terminal MIT — since traces originate from third-party assistants, their terms may apply to downstream training; check before commercial distillation.

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Citation

The recipe, evaluation methodology and failure analysis behind this model are documented in the tech report:

Aglawe, A. (2026). Agent-Trace Fine-Tuning of Small Language Models under Constrained Compute. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.21676407

@misc{aglawe2026agenttrace,
  author    = {Aglawe, Ankit},
  title     = {Agent-Trace Fine-Tuning of Small Language Models under Constrained Compute},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.21676407},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21676407}
}

Acknowledgements

Glint-Research & Roman1111111 for the open trace data · IBM Granite for the base · empero-ai whose Qwable recipe inspired the series · llama.cpp

Version history

• v2 (2026-07-16) — this release. 13× corpus, rebuilt recipe, seed-averaged weights, zero leakage.
• v1 (2026-07) — initial release, 857-row corpus. Preserved as repo revision history.

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Three gigabytes. Real Fable 5 reasoning. Yours, offline, right now.

ollama run hf.co/AnkitAI/Parable-Granite-4.1-3B-Claude-Fable-5-GGUF:Q4_K_M

More on the Parable models: ankitaglawe.com/parable