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Re:DeepSeek-R1 by whereismyacc on Monday January 20, 2025 @05:24PM (#42773806)
The weights are quantized down to fewer bits in order to save on memory. The quantization loss is going to result in worse generations.
Re:DeepSeek-R1 by ColonelPhantom on Monday January 20, 2025 @05:37PM (#42773930)
Ollama serves multiple versions, you can get Q8_0 from it too:

ollama run deepseek-r1:8b-llama-distill-q8_0

The real value from the unsloth ones is that they were uploaded before R1 appeared on Ollama's model list.

Re:DeepSeek-R1 by AS04 on Monday January 20, 2025 @09:26PM (#42775718)
Unsloth also works very diligently to find and fix tokenizer issues and many other problems as soon as they can. I have comparatively little trust on ollama following up and updating everything in a timely manner. Last I checked, there is little information on when the GGUFs and etc. on ollama were updated or what llama.cpp version / git commit did they use for it. As such, quality can vary and be significantly lower with the ollama versions for new models I believe.