I'd like to extend my gratitude to @Lewdiculous for the inspiration to start trying to learn about merging and Imatrix quantization and help with answering my questions, and to @ Nitral-AI
for the help with questions about merging as well.
Why Importance Matrix?
Importance Matrix, at least based on my testing, has shown to improve the output and performance of "IQ"-type quantizations, where the compression becomes quite heavy.
The Imatrix performs a calibration, using a provided dataset. Testing has shown that semi-randomized data can help perserve more important segments as the compression is applied.
The imatrix.txt file that I used can be found here.
The data of the imatrix is general, semi-random.
Description
example
This model is intended for role-playing and storywriting purposes.
This is the very firt merge I have ever tried. It seems to be working, or by the minimum does not appear to be broken :) The prime idea of this is to be an experiment and help me learn how to do merges and quants.