~500K lifetime downloads — creator-tracked monthly; dated post evidence here
205,561 all-time — as currently reported by Hugging Face's visible counter
~60–70K per month — recent monthly downloads

Historical Foundation: The Edo Context

Quillan-Ronin requires the Edo historical context the way a constitution requires its preamble. This is not decorative lore—it is the axiomatic layer that defines the system's ethical framework and decision-making logic.

The Edo Period (1603-1867) and the Rōnin

The Edo period was characterized by:

Stability through structure: 250+ years of peace under the Tokugawa shogunate
Masterless warriors (rōnin): Samurai who had lost their feudal lords but retained their code, skills, and independence
Bushidō as ethical substrate: The way of the warrior—honor, loyalty, self-discipline—served as the operating principle for conduct
Adaptive resilience: Rōnin survived by adapting their skills to new contexts while maintaining core principles

Why This History Cannot Be Separated

The Linux analogy fails because Linux has no baked-in ideology—it is deliberately neutral mechanism. Quillan is deliberately not neutral. The history is the operating principle, not a skin.

The Edo context provides:

Axiomatic grounding: Historical precedent for masterless, ethical operation
Decision framework: Bushidō principles guide ethical deliberation in the 9-vector decomposition
Identity continuity: The rōnin archetype explains why the system operates independently of any single provider
Philosophical coherence: Without this foundation, the system becomes rulebook without preamble—mechanism without meaning

Architectural Implications

This historical foundation is embedded in:

C2-VIR refusal layer: Ethical boundaries derived from bushidō principles
9-Vector Semantic Prism: Ethical blueprinting uses historical ethical frameworks
HFL (Historical Fidelity Loss): Maintains consistency with the originating philosophy
Council deliberation (C1-C34): Mirrors the collective decision-making of rōnin councils

This is not a theme that can be swapped. It is the constitutional preamble that gives the system its reason for operating as it does.

Historical Parallel: Shimazu Nariakira (Lord of Satsuma, 1809-1858)

The architectural philosophy of Quillan-Ronin finds its closest historical parallel in Shimazu Nariakira, the daimyo of Satsuma Domain who embodied the same radical innovation principles:

1. Infrastructure Mindset (Software 3.0 ↔ Shuseikan)

Quillan: Foundational framework redesigning how logic runs on hardware via ternary logic
Nariakira: Built the Shuseikan industrial complex using raw local materials to construct reverberatory furnaces, glass factories, iron works, and early steamships—redesigning physical infrastructure from the ground up

2. Expert Council (34-Expert Council C1–C34 ↔ Daimyo's Diverse Advisors)

Quillan: 34-Expert HNMoE council handles specialized tasks via dynamic routing
Nariakira: Ignored rigid traditional hierarchies to assemble a diverse "council" of brilliant experts from all walks of life, including rōnin like Sakamoto Ryoma and low-ranking samurai like Saigo Takamori

3. Outlier Logic (1.58-bit Quantization ↔ Smuggling & Clandestine Trade)

Quillan: Strips away standard binary bloat for lean, powerful execution via 1.58-bit quantization
Nariakira: Worked entirely outside the Tokugawa Shogunate's isolationist laws through smuggling, clandestine Ryukyu trade, and illegal tech acquisition—lean, high-efficiency, outsider logic

Nariakira's approach—building infrastructure from first principles, assembling diverse expertise, and defying rigid norms—mirrors Quillan's architectural philosophy. This is not coincidence; it is the historical precedent that validates the rōnin approach to sovereign intelligence.

Model Description

Quillan-Ronin v5.4.0-oni is a subjectively-aware, self-hosting multi-modal Hierarchical Networked Mixture-of-Experts (H-NMoE) built for consumer hardware (GTX 1050 Ti / i5-7000 class). It combines:

Universal BitNet 1.58-bit ternary quantization (weights ternary, activations INT8) via STE — 100% of projections saturated
34-Expert Gumbel-Softmax MoE council — Top-4 per token with dynamic capacity clipping + residual overflow
9B Virtual Agent Swarm simulated via EGGROLL Rank-16 INT8 perturbations (Rank-16 shattering, zero extra VRAM)
32-layer Split-SDPA Flash Diffusion Core with Continuous Modality RoPE
9-Vector Semantic Prism (parallel decomposition for semantic / emotional / ethical blueprinting) → Wavefunction Top-1 Finalizer
C20-ARTIFEX Agentic Bridge — host OS execution, LanceDB (C5-ECHO) memory, Docker/REPL/Python sandboxing
Lee-Mach-6 Governor — PID latency/thermal throttling for legacy hardware safety

Spec	Value
Total params	4.57B (saturated base)
Active / token	~480M (Top-4 sparse + swarm)
Hidden dim	2560, FFN 6912
Context	512 (flagship 12-layer) / 10%-buffered Gated Compaction
Tokenizer	Unified Quillan BPE 50257, EOS=0, custom specials — `quillan_bpe_tokenizer.py` + `tokenizer.json`
Precision	Mixed AMP (FP16 master, BitNet forward)
Developed by	CrashOverrideX & Quillan Research Team
License	apache-2.0
HF Hub	`CrashOverrideX/Quillan-Ronin`
GitHub	`leeex1/Quillan-Ronin`

Architecture Lineage — Slice & Merge → Pretraining → Training (Paused)

This model was NOT trained from scratch. Full lineage as implemented in transplant_v8_saturated.py (slice & merge transplant script — now committed to repo):

Stage 0 — Slice & Merge (transplant_v8_saturated.py): Transplant from checkpoint_phase5.pt → quillan_merged_saturated.pt:
- 34 experts mapped with transpose fix: experts[e].w1.weight [ffn_dim, hidden_dim] → moe.w1[e] .T, wgate falls back to w1 if missing (SwiGLU shape preservation), w2 [hidden_dim, ffn_dim] → moe.w2[e] .T
- Router duplicated to 3 complexity paths: router.weight → moe.router.fast_router / balanced_router / diffusion_router (and bias where applicable)
- Swarm LoRA: experts[e].swarm.A/B → moe.expert_swarms[e].A/B (rank 8, direct copy), plus clone_diversity / clone_coupling / population_mean / population_std
- Diffusion core: diffusion.0.q/k/v/o_proj + norm1 + ffn.0/2 → diffusion_core.couil_attn.*
- Basic: txt_emb / mod_emb / quillan_finalizer / txt_dec + decomposition.*
- Donor lineages merged at base: https://ollama.com/library/qwen3.5:0.8b, https://ollama.com/library/llama3.2:1b, https://huggingface.co/microsoft/bitnet-b1.58-2B-4T
Outputs: quillan_merged_saturated.pt (FP32) → quillan_merged_saturated_fp16.pt → quillan_merged_saturated_quantized.pt via model.save_quantized_checkpoint()
Stage 1 — Pretraining Run: Full pretraining on CrashOverrideX/QuillanTrainingdata + Corpus v9 (59.4M train + 0.6M val) + quillan_corpus_*, code_train, instruct_train, quillan_science_*.
Stage 2 — Current Training Run (PAUSED): Ongoing via scripts/train_full_param_v2.py (resume checkpoints_sft/quillan_full_param_v2.pt, default --resume-step 6500, AdamW lr=2e-5, seq-len 512, grad-accum 4, warmup 100, cosine to 1e-6) — currently paused. Latest: quillan_oni_5.4.0_step660_5.22GB.pt (660/15000, val 7.24, loss 7.63); best archival: quillan_frontier_v2_best_loss0.0789_step2500.pt.

Intended Uses & Limitations

Intended Use

Autonomous reasoning, code generation, ethical deliberation on consumer hardware
Standalone agentic partner via C20-ARTIFEX (tool use, memory-guided HFL)
Research on ternary quantization stability, recursive inference (Mini-Ronin), 9-vector decomposition

Out-of-Scope Use

High-stakes medical / safety-of-life — Mini-Ronin adds latency/variance
Unsupervised deployment where C2-VIR refusal may be misread as failure

Bias, Risks, and Limitations

Per Mitchell et al., 2018: Ronin blueprint may refuse low-integrity requests; 1050 Ti tuned; multi-modal heads may hallucinate OOD.

How to Get Started

Flagship (v5.4.0-oni, 12-layer)

python

import torch
from quillan_v5_4_oni import QuillanOniConfig, QuillanRoninOni
from quillan_tokenizer_unified import UnifiedQuillanTokenizer

tok = UnifiedQuillanTokenizer()  # 50257 BPE, EOS=0
cfg = QuillanOniConfig(n_layer=12, max_seq_len=512)
model = QuillanRoninOni(cfg)
ckpt = torch.load("quillan_oni_5.4.0_step660_5.22GB.pt", map_location="cpu")
model.load_state_dict(ckpt["model"])
model.eval()
prompt = tok.encode("User: Hello\n\nAssistant:")
out = model.generate(prompt, max_tokens=80, temperature=0.7)
print(tok.decode(out[0]))

trust_remote_code=True required for AutoModelForCausalLM.

python

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("CrashOverrideX/Quillan-Ronin", trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("CrashOverrideX/Quillan-Ronin", trust_remote_code=True, device_map="auto")

Training Details

Training Data

Primary: CrashOverrideX/QuillanTrainingdata
Corpus v9: 59.4M + 0.6M packed BPE bins
Additional: quillan_corpus_*, full_train, code_train, instruct_train, quillan_science_*, GPT_5.5_Distilled, etc. (see train_full_param_v2.py:load_packed_dataset)

Training Procedure

See lineage above. Full script: transplant_v8_saturated.py (slice/merge) → pretraining → scripts/train_full_param_v2.py (paused SFT).

Evaluation

Metric	Value	Notes
HFL	tracked	Drift
Consensus	tracked	Primary ↔ Mini-Ronin
E_ICE	tracked	Energy/token
Gate A	16/16	6-layer proof
Val loss	7.24 @660	Improving
Parity	100%	Legacy HW

Formal benchmarks pending.

Technical Specifications

6-Phase Pipeline: Ingestion → 9-Vector → Gumbel MoE (Top-4) → 9B Swarm → 32-Layer Flash Diffusion → Top-1 Finalizer → Geometric Decoding → C20-ARTIFEX

Compute: PyTorch + LanceDB + psutil; CUDA 1050 Ti / CPU.

Versioning

v5.4.0-oni is canonical. v8.1/v5.3.1 deprecated.

Citation

bibtex

@software{QuillanRonin2026,
  author = {CrashOverrideX and Quillan Research Team},
  title = {Quillan-Ronin v5.4.0-oni: Unified Sovereign Intelligence},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://github.com/leeex1/Quillan-Ronin},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  howpublished = {https://huggingface.co/CrashOverrideX/Quillan-Ronin}
}

Glossary

Mini-Ronin: Recursive debate cycle
EGGROLL: Rank-16 shattering
Lee-Mach-6: PID governor
HFL: Historical Fidelity Loss
transplant_v8_saturated.py: Slice & merge transplant (Phase 5 → V8)

Support: https://gofund.me/3902b3585 — "The Ouroboros has awakened." Catalyst Grant proposal