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Qwen3.5 model struggles with long context at lower quantization

A user on r/LocalLLaMA is experiencing a significant drop in performance with the Qwen3.5 122B A10B model when its context window exceeds approximately 75-80k tokens. The model begins to hallucinate, forget information, and misattribute statements. The user suspects this degradation might be due to using a Q3 quantization level, as their system cannot handle Q4 without disk swapping, and is seeking advice on whether this is a model-specific issue, a quantization limitation, or if specific llama.cpp settings could mitigate the problem, noting they are already using a BF16 KV cache. AI

IMPACT Highlights potential limitations of quantized models in handling extended contexts, impacting usability for complex tasks.

RANK_REASON User-generated discussion about model performance limitations.

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  1. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/_TheWolfOfWalmart_ ·

    Long-context performance at lower quants

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I've been using Qwen3.5 122B A10B (Q3_K_XL) a lot lately for coding, and it's been pretty incredible overall like it feels not far off from frontier-level for most tasks -- but I've been noticing that usually once I hit around 75-80k context use,…