v0.1.7 - Qwen3.6 Benchmark & Hermes Agent
New Features
- Qwen3.6 vs Gemma4 architecture benchmark — 4 models compared across 15 iterations each:
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (UD-Q4_K_S): 90.0 mean, 0.0 std dev, 173.7 TPS
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (UD-IQ4_XS): 87.3 mean, 174.5 TPS
- Gemma 4 E4B (BF16): 88.3 mean, 82.9 TPS
- Qwen3.6-27B (Q4_K_M): 80.3 mean, 46.9 TPS
- Hermes Agent mode switched to Qwen3.6-35B-A3B IQ4_XS — 2x faster than Gemma4, fits with embedding model on 24GB VRAM
- Qwen3.6 presets:
qwen36-27b-q4,qwen36-35b-a3b-q4,qwen36-35b-a3b-iq4xs
Fixes
- ConfigFetcher hardening: follow HuggingFace 307 redirects, map httpx errors to ConfigFetchError, SSRF redirect hostname allow-list
- Benchmark TPS measurement: read timing from response body instead of deprecated
X-Llama-Timingsheader - CI test fixes for hermes-agent mode count
Key Finding
MoE (3B active) is 3.7x faster than dense 27B with higher quality. IQ4_XS is a viable swap for Q4_K_S — statistically tied on quality, identical TPS, 1 GB VRAM savings.