bonsai-8B-1bit-turboquant

Bonsai 1-Bit TurboQuant

This repository bundles the Bonsai-8B GGUF checkpoint and the launcher scripts needed to run it with the TurboQuant-enabled llama.cpp fork.

TurboQuant does not change the 1-bit model weights. It changes the KV cache format at runtime, which is what reduces VRAM usage.

What is included

• models/gguf/8B/Bonsai-8B.gguf
• scripts/common.sh
• scripts/run_llama.sh
• scripts/start_llama_server.sh
• scripts/start_openwebui.sh
• scripts/download_models.sh

Quick Start

Clone this repo and the TurboQuant llama.cpp fork side by side:

git clone https://github.com/Apothic-AI/bonsai-turboquant.git
git clone https://github.com/Apothic-AI/llama.cpp-1bit-turboquant.git ../llama.cpp-1bit-turboquant
cd bonsai-turboquant

Build the forked llama.cpp checkout with CUDA:

cd ../llama.cpp-1bit-turboquant
cmake -S . -B build-tbq-cuda -DGGML_CUDA=ON -DLLAMA_BUILD_SERVER=ON -DLLAMA_BUILD_TOOLS=ON
cmake --build build-tbq-cuda -j
cd ../bonsai-turboquant

Run Bonsai through the TurboQuant-enabled server:

BONSAI_LLAMA_BIN_DIR=../llama.cpp-1bit-turboquant/build-tbq-cuda/bin \
BONSAI_CACHE_TYPE_K=tbq4_0 \
BONSAI_CACHE_TYPE_V=tbq3_0 \
./scripts/start_llama_server.sh

The same override works for direct prompts:

BONSAI_LLAMA_BIN_DIR=../llama.cpp-1bit-turboquant/build-tbq-cuda/bin \
BONSAI_CACHE_TYPE_K=tbq4_0 \
BONSAI_CACHE_TYPE_V=tbq3_0 \
./scripts/run_llama.sh -p "Who are you?"

If you want the browser UI, start ./scripts/start_openwebui.sh after the server is running.

To fetch the 4B or 1.7B checkpoints later, use ./scripts/download_models.sh.

Notes

• This repo includes the 8B GGUF only.
• Set BONSAI_MODEL to 8B unless you have added additional model downloads locally.
• The llama.cpp fork contains the TurboQuant runtime support.