
Base model	`ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b`
Training data	`Salesforce/xlam-function-calling-60k`
Method	LoRA supervised fine-tuning via Unsloth + TRL
License	`apache-2.0` (inherited from the base model)

Available quantizations

File	Size
`granite-4.1-8b-function-calling-xlam-unsloth.q2_k.gguf`	3.41 GB
`granite-4.1-8b-function-calling-xlam-unsloth.q3_k_m.gguf`	4.35 GB
`granite-4.1-8b-function-calling-xlam-unsloth.q4_k_m.gguf`	5.35 GB
`granite-4.1-8b-function-calling-xlam-unsloth.q5_k_m.gguf`	6.25 GB
`granite-4.1-8b-function-calling-xlam-unsloth.q6_k.gguf`	7.22 GB
`granite-4.1-8b-function-calling-xlam-unsloth.q8_0.gguf`	9.35 GB

Usage

llama.cpp

bash

huggingface-cli download ermiaazarkhalili/Granite-4.1-8B-Function-Calling-xLAM-Unsloth-GGUF granite-4.1-8b-function-calling-xlam-unsloth.q4_k_m.gguf --local-dir .
llama-cli -m granite-4.1-8b-function-calling-xlam-unsloth.q4_k_m.gguf -p "Explain gradient checkpointing in two sentences." -n 256

Ollama

bash

echo 'FROM ./granite-4.1-8b-function-calling-xlam-unsloth.q4_k_m.gguf' > Modelfile
ollama create granite-4.1-8b-function-calling-xlam-unsloth-gguf -f Modelfile
ollama run granite-4.1-8b-function-calling-xlam-unsloth-gguf

Training configuration

Setting	Value
LoRA rank (r)	16
LoRA alpha	16
Learning rate	0.0002
Epochs	1
Effective batch size	8 (2 x 4 grad accum)
Max sequence length	2048
Base precision	4-bit (QLoRA)
Target modules	`q_proj`, `k_proj`, `v_proj`, `o_proj`, `gate_proj`, `up_proj`, `down_proj`

Observed training loss

Measured from our SLURM logs for this configuration. These are training-loss observations only — no downstream benchmark evaluation has been run on this model, so they should not be read as a quality claim.

SLURM job	Steps	First loss	Final loss
`38330899`	7,500	0.6916	0.1309

Limitations

No benchmark evaluation has been run on this checkpoint. The only reported numbers are training-loss observations.
Inherits the biases, knowledge cutoff and failure modes of the base model.
Fine-tuned on a single instruction-following dataset; behaviour outside that distribution is untested.
LoRA adapters were merged into the base weights, so the merged model cannot be detached from this fine-tune.

Reproducing

Trained by notebooks/xlam_function_calling_granite4.1-8b_unsloth.ipynb, executed non-interactively with papermill on a SLURM H100 partition (Unsloth + TRL, LoRA).

Card generated from the training run's own configuration and logs by scripts/generate_hub_model_card.py.