by mradermacher
Open source · 200 downloads · 1 likes
The *Zen Musician GGUF* model is an optimized and quantized version of the *zenlm/zen-musician* model, specifically designed to generate music or musical compositions from text prompts. It excels at creating melodies, harmonies, or coherent musical structures while offering great flexibility to adapt the style or mood to specific needs. Its use cases include AI-assisted composition, creative exploration, or integration into music production tools. What sets it apart is its lightweight and efficient approach thanks to quantization, enabling smooth operation even on modest hardware while maintaining remarkable sound quality.
static quants of https://huggingface.co/zenlm/zen-musician
For a convenient overview and download list, visit our model page for this model.
weighted/imatrix quants are available at https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/zen-musician-i1-GGUF
If you are unsure how to use GGUF files, refer to one of TheBloke's READMEs for more details, including on how to concatenate multi-part files.
(sorted by size, not necessarily quality. IQ-quants are often preferable over similar sized non-IQ quants)
| Link | Type | Size/GB | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| GGUF | Q2_K | 2.5 | |
| GGUF | Q3_K_S | 2.9 | |
| GGUF | Q3_K_M | 3.2 | lower quality |
| GGUF | Q3_K_L | 3.4 | |
| GGUF | IQ4_XS | 3.5 | |
| GGUF | Q4_K_S | 3.7 | fast, recommended |
| GGUF | Q4_K_M | 3.9 | fast, recommended |
| GGUF | Q5_K_S | 4.4 | |
| GGUF | Q5_K_M | 4.5 | |
| GGUF | Q6_K | 5.2 | very good quality |
| GGUF | Q8_0 | 6.7 | fast, best quality |
| GGUF | f16 | 12.6 | 16 bpw, overkill |
Here is a handy graph by ikawrakow comparing some lower-quality quant types (lower is better):

And here are Artefact2's thoughts on the matter: https://gist.github.com/Artefact2/b5f810600771265fc1e39442288e8ec9
See https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/model_requests for some answers to questions you might have and/or if you want some other model quantized.
I thank my company, nethype GmbH, for letting me use its servers and providing upgrades to my workstation to enable this work in my free time.