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Recommended Model Inference Settings — Reference Document

Source: AIPA Knowledge Base — compiled from 5 KB reference documents. Status: Reference document (KB-derived; freshness not actively maintained — verify against current upstream model docs before relying on a setting for production work). Purpose: Canonical reference for llama-server / llama.cpp inference parameters across all model families with KB-documented settings.

Table of Contents

  1. NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (120B-A12B)
  2. NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano (4B / 30B-A3B)
  3. Qwen 3.5 Family (0.8B – 397B-A17B)
  4. Qwen3-Coder-Next (80B MoE)
  5. Google Gemma 4 Family (E2B – 31B)
  6. Quick Reference Cards
  7. Critical Warnings by Model
  8. Models Without KB Settings

1. NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (120B-A12B)

Model Overview

Property Value
Architecture MoE — 120B total, 12B active parameters
Max Context 1,048,576 (1M tokens)
Recommended Starting Context 16K or 32K — increase gradually
Reasoning Tokens <think)> (ID 12), </think)> (ID 13)
Positional Embeddings NoPE — YaRN NOT needed
Best For Multi-agent AI, high-efficiency reasoning, coding, math
Performance Tier ~GPT-5.2 / Claude Opus 4.5 level

Inference Parameters

Parameter General Chat / Instruction Tool Calling
temperature 1.0 0.6
top_p 1.0 0.95
min_p 0.01 0.01

Additional Settings

Setting Value Notes
--seed 3407 Reproducibility
--prio 2 or 3 Priority scheduling
--special Required To see reasoning tokens
--verbose-prompt Required To see prepended <think)> tokens
max_new_tokens 32,768 – 262,144 Up to 1M

Quantization & Memory

Precision Memory Required
UD-Q2_K_XL (2-bit) ~32–36 GB
UD-Q4_K_XL (4-bit) ~64–72 GB
8-bit ~128 GB
BF16 ~240 GB

Example Command

./llama.cpp/llama-server \
    --model Nemotron-3-Super-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf \
    --ctx-size 16384 \
    --temp 1.0 --top-p 1.0 --min-p 0.01 \
    --seed 3407 --special \
    --flash-attn on \
    --port 8001

2. NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano (4B / 30B-A3B)

Model Variants

Variant Architecture Context Active Params Best Fit
Nano-4B Dense 128K 4B Lightweight coding, math, agentic tasks
Nano-30B-A3B MoE 128K 3B active Best performance/size on 24GB devices

Inference Parameters (Both Variants)

Parameter General Chat / Instruction Tool Calling
temperature 1.0 0.6
top_p 1.0 0.95
min_p 0.01 0.01

Additional Settings

Setting Value Notes
--seed 3407 Reproducibility
--special Not required Standard chat template for Nano variants

Hardware & Quantization

Nano-4B

Precision Memory
Q8_0 (8-bit, recommended) ~3 GB
4-bit ~5 GB

Nano-30B-A3B

Precision Memory
UD-Q4_K_XL (4-bit, recommended) ~24 GB
8-bit ~36 GB

Example Commands

# Nano-4B (8-bit)
./llama.cpp/llama-server \
    -hf unsloth/Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-GGUF:Q8_0 \
    --ctx-size 16384 \
    --temp 1.0 --top-p 1.0 --min-p 0.01 \
    --seed 3407 --flash-attn on --port 8001

# Nano-30B-A3B (4-bit)
./llama.cpp/llama-server \
    -hf unsloth/Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL \
    --ctx-size 16384 \
    --temp 1.0 --top-p 1.0 --min-p 0.01 \
    --seed 3407 --flash-attn on --port 8001

3. Qwen 3.5 Family (0.8B – 397B-A17B)

Model Variants

Variant Architecture Context Languages Best Fit
0.8B Dense 256K 201 Smallest edge inference
2B Dense 256K 201 Small device inference
4B Dense 256K 201 Lightweight local use
9B Dense 256K 201 Capable small model
27B Dense 256K 201 Slightly more accurate than 35B-A3B; fits 18GB
35B-A3B MoE (3B active) 256K 201 Best speed/quality tradeoff; fits 22GB
122B-A10B MoE (10B active) 256K 201 High quality; needs ~70GB (4-bit)
397B-A17B MoE (17B active) 256K (extendable to 1M via YaRN) 201 Top-tier performance

27B vs 35B-A3B Decision

  • 27B — Choose for slightly more accurate results when you can't fit a larger model.
  • 35B-A3B — Choose for much faster inference. MoE with only 3B active parameters.

Hardware Requirements

Variant 3-bit 4-bit 6-bit 8-bit BF16
0.8B / 2B 3 GB 3.5 GB 5 GB 7.5 GB 9 GB
4B 4.5 GB 5.5 GB 7 GB 10 GB 14 GB
9B 5.5 GB 6.5 GB 9 GB 13 GB 19 GB
27B 14 GB 17 GB 24 GB 30 GB 54 GB
35B-A3B 17 GB 22 GB 30 GB 38 GB 70 GB
122B-A10B 60 GB 70 GB 106 GB 132 GB 245 GB
397B-A17B 180 GB 214 GB 340 GB 512 GB 810 GB

Inference Parameters

Thinking Mode

Parameter General Tasks Precise Coding (e.g. WebDev)
temperature 1.0 0.6
top_p 0.95 0.95
top_k 20 20
min_p 0.0 0.0
presence_penalty 1.5 0.0
repetition_penalty 1.0 (disabled) 1.0 (disabled)

Non-Thinking (Instruct) Mode

Parameter General Tasks Reasoning Tasks
temperature 0.7 1.0
top_p 0.8 0.95
top_k 20 20
min_p 0.0 0.0
presence_penalty 1.5 1.5
repetition_penalty 1.0 (disabled) 1.0 (disabled)

Thinking Mode Control

Enable thinking:

--chat-template-kwargs '{"enable_thinking":true}'

Disable thinking:

--chat-template-kwargs '{"enable_thinking":false}'

Default Thinking Behavior by Variant

Variant Thinking Default
0.8B, 2B, 4B, 9B (Small) Disabled — must explicitly enable
27B, 35B-A3B, 122B-A10B, 397B-A17B Enabled — must explicitly disable if unwanted

Context Settings

Setting Value
Max context window 262,144 (256K)
Context extension Up to 1M via YaRN
Recommended starting context 16,384 (16K) for responsiveness
Adequate output length 32,768 tokens

Quantization Notes

  • All GGUFs use Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 quantization — important layers upcasted to 8 or 16-bit even in 4-bit.
  • Recommended starting point: Dynamic 4-bit (UD-Q4_K_XL).
  • Minimum recommended: Dynamic 2-bit (UD-Q2_K_XL).

Example Commands

# 35B-A3B — Thinking Mode (General)
./llama.cpp/llama-server \
    -hf unsloth/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL \
    --ctx-size 16384 \
    --temp 1.0 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 20 --min-p 0.00 \
    --chat-template-kwargs '{"enable_thinking":true}' \
    --flash-attn on --port 8001

# 9B — Thinking Enabled (small models default to disabled)
./llama.cpp/llama-server \
    -hf unsloth/Qwen3.5-9B-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL \
    --ctx-size 16384 \
    --temp 1.0 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 20 --min-p 0.00 \
    --chat-template-kwargs '{"enable_thinking":true}' \
    --flash-attn on --port 8001

4. Qwen3-Coder-Next (80B MoE)

Model Overview

Property Value
Architecture MoE — 80B total, 3B active parameters
Max Context 262,144 (256K)
Recommended Context 32,768 for less memory use
Thinking Mode Non-reasoning only — no <think)> blocks
Best For Fast agentic coding, long-horizon reasoning, complex tool use
Performance Tier Comparable to models with 10–20× more active parameters

Inference Parameters

Parameter Value Notes
temperature 1.0
top_p 0.95
top_k 40 Note: higher than Qwen3.5 general
min_p 0.01 llama.cpp default is 0.05 — override to 0.01
repetition_penalty 1.0 (disabled) Only increase if you see looping

Quick Reference One-Liner

temperature=1.0, top_p=0.95, top_k=40, min_p=0.01, repetition_penalty=1.0

Hardware Requirements

Precision Memory Required
3-bit (UD-IQ3_XXS) ~34 GB
4-bit (UD-Q4_K_XL) ~46 GB
8-bit ~85 GB
BF16 ~160 GB

Key Differences from Qwen3.5 General Models

  • No thinking mode — this is a non-reasoning model; ultra-quick code responses
  • Higher top_k (40 vs. 20) — broader sampling for creative code generation
  • enable_thinking flag is not applicable

Example Commands

# llama-server deployment
./llama.cpp/llama-server \
    --model Qwen3-Coder-Next-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf \
    --alias "unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-Next" \
    --seed 3407 \
    --temp 1.0 --top-p 0.95 --min-p 0.01 --top-k 40 \
    --ctx-size 32768 \
    --flash-attn on --port 8001

vLLM FP8 Dynamic (GPU Premium)

CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES='0,1,2,3' vllm serve unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-Next-FP8-Dynamic \
    --served-model-name unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-Next \
    --tensor-parallel-size 4 \
    --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder \
    --enable-auto-tool-choice \
    --dtype bfloat16 --seed 3407 \
    --max-model-len 200000 \
    --gpu-memory-utilization 0.93 \
    --port 8001

5. Google Gemma 4 Family (E2B – 31B)

Model Variants

Variant Architecture Context Modalities Best Fit
E2B Dense + PLE 128K Text, Image, Audio Phone / edge, ASR, speech translation
E4B Dense + PLE 128K Text, Image, Audio Laptops, fast local multimodal
26B-A4B MoE (4B active) 256K Text, Image Best speed/quality tradeoff
31B Dense 256K Text, Image Strongest performance

Inference Parameters (All Variants)

These are Google's default Gemma 4 parameters:

Parameter Value
temperature 1.0
top_p 0.95
top_k 64
repetition_penalty 1.0 (disabled — only increase if looping)
End-of-sentence token `<turn

Context Length

  • E2B / E4B: max 128K
  • 26B-A4B / 31B: max 256K
  • Practical tip: Start with 32K for responsiveness, then increase as needed.

Hardware Requirements

Variant 4-bit 8-bit BF16/FP16
E2B 4 GB 5–8 GB 10 GB
E4B 5.5–6 GB 9–12 GB 16 GB
26B-A4B 16–18 GB 28–30 GB 52 GB
31B 17–20 GB 34–38 GB 62 GB

Quantization Recommendations

  • E2B / E4B (small): prefer Q8_0 (8-bit) for quality.
  • 26B-A4B / 31B (large): prefer UD-Q4_K_XL (Dynamic 4-bit) as starting point.

26B-A4B vs 31B Decision

  • 26B-A4B — Choose when RAM is limited. MoE with 4B active params = faster. Slight quality tradeoff.
  • 31B — Choose when you have ≥20 GB (4-bit) and want maximum quality. Slower inference.

Thinking Mode

Enable thinking — add to system prompt:

<|think|>
You are a careful coding assistant. Explain your answer clearly.

Model outputs:

<|channel>thought
[internal reasoning]
<channel|>
[final answer]

Disable thinking via llama-server:

--chat-template-kwargs '{"enable_thinking":false}'

Multi-turn rule: Only keep the final visible answer in chat history. Do NOT feed prior thought blocks back.

Multimodal Settings

  • Images/Audio go before text in prompts.
  • Video: pass frames first, then instruction.
  • Audio is only on E2B and E4B. Max audio: 30s. Max video: 60s (1 fps).

Visual Token Budgets

Budget Use Case
70 / 140 Classification, captioning, fast video
280 / 560 General multimodal chat, charts, UI
1120 OCR, document parsing, handwriting

Example Commands

# 26B-A4B (Dynamic 4-bit)
./llama.cpp/llama-server \
    -hf unsloth/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL \
    --temp 1.0 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 64 \
    --ctx-size 32768 --flash-attn on --port 8001

# 31B (Dynamic 4-bit) with thinking
./llama.cpp/llama-server \
    -hf unsloth/gemma-4-31B-it-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL \
    --temp 1.0 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 64 \
    --ctx-size 32768 \
    --chat-template-kwargs '{"enable_thinking":true}' \
    --flash-attn on --port 8001

6. Quick Reference Cards

Temperature by Model & Use Case

Model Family General / Chat Coding / Precise Tool Calling Non-Thinking
Nemotron 3 Super 1.0 — 0.6 —
Nemotron 3 Nano 1.0 — 0.6 —
Qwen 3.5 (thinking) 1.0 0.6 — —
Qwen 3.5 (non-thinking) — — — 0.7 (general) / 1.0 (reasoning)
Qwen3-Coder-Next 1.0 1.0 — —
Gemma 4 1.0 1.0 — —

Top-P by Model & Use Case

Model Family General / Chat Coding / Precise Tool Calling Non-Thinking
Nemotron 3 Super 1.0 — 0.95 —
Nemotron 3 Nano 1.0 — 0.95 —
Qwen 3.5 (thinking) 0.95 0.95 — —
Qwen 3.5 (non-thinking) — — — 0.8 (general) / 0.95 (reasoning)
Qwen3-Coder-Next 0.95 0.95 — —
Gemma 4 0.95 0.95 — —

Top-K by Model

Model Family Top-K
Nemotron 3 Default (not specified)
Qwen 3.5 20
Qwen3-Coder-Next 40
Gemma 4 64

Min-P by Model

Model Family Min-P
Nemotron 3 (all) 0.01
Qwen 3.5 0.0
Qwen3-Coder-Next 0.01
Gemma 4 Default (not specified)

Presence Penalty by Model

Model Family General Coding Reasoning
Nemotron 3 Default Default Default
Qwen 3.5 (thinking) 1.5 0.0 1.5
Qwen 3.5 (non-thinking) 1.5 — 1.5
Qwen3-Coder-Next Default Default Default
Gemma 4 Default Default Default

Repetition Penalty by Model

Model Family Value Notes
Nemotron 3 Default —
Qwen 3.5 1.0 (disabled) —
Qwen3-Coder-Next 1.0 (disabled) Only increase if looping
Gemma 4 1.0 (disabled) Only increase if looping

Seed Values

Model Family Recommended Seed
Nemotron 3 (all) 3407
Qwen 3.5 3407 (optional)
Qwen3-Coder-Next 3407
Gemma 4 Default

7. Critical Warnings by Model

Nemotron 3 Super

  • ⚠️ Do NOT attempt 1M context on first run — increase gradually from 16K/32K.
  • ⚠️ Setting context to 1M may trigger CUDA OOM and crash.
  • ⚠️ Router-layer fine-tuning disabled by default in Unsloth for MoE models.

Qwen 3.5

  • ⚠️ No Qwen3.5 GGUF works in Ollama due to separate mmproj vision files. Use llama.cpp-compatible backends.
  • ⚠️ presence_penalty above 0.0 may cause slight performance decrease.
  • ⚠️ If getting gibberish, check context length or add --cache-type-k bf16 --cache-type-v bf16.
  • ⚠️ Redownload older GGUFs — all updated with improved quantization and tool-calling template fixes.

Qwen3-Coder-Next

  • ⚠️ Update llama.cpp — a previous bug in vectorized key_gdiff caused looping/output issues.
  • ⚠️ No Ollama support — use llama.cpp-compatible backends.
  • ⚠️ If context length too low, may see exceeds the available context size errors.
  • ⚠️ Tool-calling improved after llama.cpp parsing fixes (Feb 19 update) — use recent version.

Gemma 4

  • ⚠️ Do NOT use CUDA 13.2 runtime for any GGUF — causes poor outputs.
  • ⚠️ Use llama-server (not llama-cli) for thinking control — more reliable.
  • ⚠️ Multi-turn: only keep the final visible answer in chat history. Do NOT feed prior thought blocks back.

8. Models Without KB Settings

The following model families are deployed in the Infrastructure-PFI environment but do not have KB-documented inference parameters. Settings for these models use general best practices or vendor defaults:

Model Notes
DeepSeek R1 0528 No KB doc — use general MoE defaults
Mistral Small 3.1 No KB doc — use vendor defaults
GLM-4.7-Flash No KB doc — use vendor defaults
GLM Steam 106B-A12B No KB doc — use general MoE defaults
Granite 4.0 Micro No KB doc — use IBM defaults
Kimi K2 No KB doc — use general MoE defaults
Skyfall R1 31B v4a No KB doc — use general defaults
Hermes 4 14B No KB doc (download pending) — use vendor defaults

KB Source Documents

Document Path in KB
Nemotron 3 Super Running Parameters reference/nemotron-3-super-running-parameters.md
Nemotron 3 Nano Running Parameters reference/nemotron-3-nano-running-parameters.md
Qwen 3.5 Running Parameters reference/qwen3.5-running-parameters.md
Qwen3-Coder-Next Running Parameters reference/qwen3-coder-next-running-parameters.md
Gemma 4 Running Parameters reference/gemma-4-running-parameters.md

Document generated by Linus (Systems Architect) from AIPA Knowledge Base content curated by Atlas.

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