T-lite-it-2.1-GGUF

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This repository contains T-lite-it-2.1 converted to the GGUF format with llama.cpp.
See the original BF16 model here: t-tech/T-lite-it-2.1.

Description

T-lite-it-2.1 is an efficient Russian model built upon the Qwen 3 architecture, featuring significant improvements in instruction following and adds support for tool-calling capabilities — a key advancement over T-lite-it-1.0, which lacks tool-use support. Outperforms Qwen3-8B in tool calling scenarios, which is essential for agentic applications. Built for both general tasks and complex workflows, with higher Russian text generation throughput enabled by optimized tokenizer.

NOTE: This model supports only non-thinking mode and does not generate <think></think> in its output. Meanwhile, specifying enable_thinking=False is no longer required.

📊 Benchmarks

Model	Ru Arena Hard	ruIFeval*	ruBFCL
T-lite-it-2.1	83.9	75.9	56.5
T-lite-it-2.1-q8_0	79.5	76.2	56.6
T-lite-it-2.1-q6_k	79.5	77.8	56.7
T-lite-it-2.1-q5_k_m	78.6	76.3	56.6
T-lite-it-2.1-q5_0	78.9	76.8	56.3
T-lite-it-2.1-q5_k_s	76.1	75.3	56.0
T-lite-it-2.1-q4_k_m	71.7	75.9	54.7

* IFeval metric is mean of 4 values: prompt and instruct levels for strict and loose accuracy.

Available quantisations

Recommendation: choose the highest-quality quantisation that fits your hardware (VRAM / RAM).

Filename (→ `-gguf`)	Quant method	Bits	Size (GB)
`T-lite-it-2.1-q8_0`	Q8_0	8	8.7
`T-lite-it-2.1-q6_k`	Q6_K	6	6.7
`T-lite-it-2.1-q5_k_m`	Q5_K_M	5	5.9
`T-lite-it-2.1-q5_k_s`	Q5_K_S	5	5.7
`T-lite-it-2.1-q5_0`	Q5_0	5	5.7
`T-lite-it-2.1-q4_k_m`	Q4_K_M	4	5.0

Size figures assume no GPU off-loading. Off-loading lowers RAM usage and uses VRAM instead.

Quickstart

llama.cpp

Check out our llama.cpp documentation for more usage guide.

We advise you to clone llama.cpp and install it following the official guide. We follow the latest version of llama.cpp. In the following demonstration, we assume that you are running commands under the repository llama.cpp.

./llama-cli -hf t-tech/T-lite-it-2.1-GGUF:Q8_0 --jinja --color -ngl 99 -fa -sm row --temp 0.6 --presence-penalty 1.0 -c 40960 -n 32768 --no-context-shift