Show HN: Shoehorn – Quantize any model down to run on your machine (notactuallytreyanastasio.github.io)

67 points by rhgraysonii 3 days ago

17 comments:

by puttycat an hour ago

This is really impressive. Can you say a bit about the underlying process? I'm guessing this is post-training qantization? Isn't PTQ also resource-intensive? (Ie might not work on any machine)

by hmokiguess 3 days ago
by rhgraysonii 3 days ago

LLMFit tells you what can run on something. I built something quite similar to their search into Shoehorn now.

by sscarduzio 2 hours ago

The project name is perfect!

by jedbrooke 3 hours ago

I gotta laugh at some of the models it suggests, for example:

> AnkitAI/Parable-Qwen3-4B-Claude-Fable-5-GGUF

you’re telling me you managed to fit Fable 5 into just 4B?

by chompychop 3 hours ago

I gotta laugh at your thought process: knowing Fable 5 is a large frontier model, you're telling me that the first thing that came to your mind on seeing that model name is that it's a quantized version of Fable? As opposed to a distillation/fine-tuning on Fable responses?

by metalliqaz 2 hours ago

Well to be fair here... the title of this post doesn't mention fine tuning, it mentions quantization.

by unrented7977 3 hours ago

Don't make fun of people you think are ignorant, it's a pretty shitty look

by chompychop 2 hours ago

Well, then don't get all snarky and dismissive of things you might not be knowledgeable about ("you" here referring to OP).

by akshay_akula 2 days ago

This is interesting. I wonder how it could work with something like https://github.com/JustVugg/colibri.

by mbuchel-hn 3 days ago

does this work similar to airllm? i am wondering how it would handle something like quantizing kimi k3 on a budget of 8 gbs, or is that something you are not attempting to solve yet?

by rhgraysonii 3 days ago

Yes that is exactly what this does.

by kennywinker 3 days ago

Could you explain what happens when you try to shoehorn a 2.4T parameter model into a 24gb m4 mac?

by metalliqaz an hour ago

extreme divergence would be my guess

by akshay_akula 2 days ago

Wondering the same thing but for 48gb M5 Max.

by jaylane 3 days ago

tried it out but based on the model sizing result i got i got an insufficient memory error when the server started running

by rhgraysonii 3 days ago

If you could post an issue if you still have the error around that would be awesome.

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