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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Quantize Ornith-1.0-35B to 4-bit NF4 using bitsandbytes (recommended way)."""
+
+import torch
+from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, BitsAndBytesConfig, AutoTokenizer
+
+def quantize_model(model_path, output_path):
+    print(f"Quantizing model from: {model_path}")
+    print("This will use bitsandbytes NF4 quantization with double quantization.\n")
+
+    bnb_config = BitsAndBytesConfig(
+        load_in_4bit=True,
+        bnb_4bit_quant_type="nf4",
+        bnb_4bit_compute_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
+        bnb_4bit_use_double_quant=True,
+    )
+
+    print("Loading model with 4-bit quantization (this may take a while)...")
+    model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
+        model_path,
+        quantization_config=bnb_config,
+        device_map="auto",
+        low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
+        trust_remote_code=True,
+    )
+
+    print("\nSaving quantized model...")
+    model.save_pretrained(output_path)
+    
+    # Also save tokenizer if it exists
+    try:
+        tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_path)
+        tokenizer.save_pretrained(output_path)
+    except:
+        pass
+
+    print(f"\n✅ Quantized model saved to: {output_path}")
+    print("You can now load it with: AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(..., load_in_4bit=True)")
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    import argparse
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("--model-path", type=str, default="/data/models/Ornith-1.0-35B")
+    parser.add_argument("--output-path", type=str, default="/data/models/Ornith-1.0-35B-4bit-nf4")
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    
+    quantize_model(args.model_path, args.output_path)