feat(stage-8e-2): plumb quant config from ModelSpec to TP load path

- LoadDenseShard RPC gains an optional `quant` string field.
- WorkerPool::load_dense_shard takes a `quant: Option<String>`,
  passes it via the RPC to workers and via parse_quant_string to
  the leader's local load.
- The Qwen3-Next TP load chain (ForCausalLM → Model → DecoderLayer
  → Attention / GatedDeltaNet / MLP) takes `quant: Option<GgmlDType>`
  end-to-end, calling Column/RowParallelLinear::load_with_quant.
- The fused in_proj_qkv inside TpQwen3_5GatedDeltaNet is now a
  MaybeQuantLinear so it also picks up quantization.
- parse_quant_string accepts q4_0/q4_1/q5_0/q5_1/q8_0/q8_1, q2k..q8k
  (with or without underscore), and f16/bf16/f32. Empty / None means
  no quantization.

Callers from candle.rs forward spec.quant through pool.load_dense_shard.
This means a `quant = "q5k"` in models.toml now flows end-to-end to a
QTensor-backed QMatMul for every per-rank linear in the Qwen3-Next
TP path. Leaves lm_head and the small replicated bias/log tensors in
their loaded dtype (Stage 8e-3).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

crates/neuron/src/harness/candle.rs

@@ -1141,6 +1141,7 @@ impl CandleHarness {
                 &safetensors_paths,
                 &leader_device,
                 candle_core::DType::BF16,
+                spec.quant.clone(),
             )
             .await?;
 

crates/neuron/src/harness/tp/mod.rs

@@ -474,6 +474,7 @@ impl WorkerPool {
     /// `init_nccl` must have completed first. Bails if the leader's
     /// NCCL comm isn't set up yet.
     #[cfg(feature = "cuda")]
+    #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
     pub async fn load_dense_shard(
         &mut self,
         model_id: &str,
@@ -481,6 +482,7 @@ impl WorkerPool {
         safetensors_paths: &[std::path::PathBuf],
         leader_device: &candle_core::Device,
         dtype: candle_core::DType,
+        quant: Option<String>,
     ) -> Result<std::sync::Arc<tokio::sync::Mutex<TpLeaderModel>>> {
         use candle_nn::var_builder::ShardedSafeTensors;
         use std::sync::Arc;
@@ -510,6 +512,7 @@ impl WorkerPool {
                 model_id: model_id.to_string(),
                 config_json: config_json.to_string(),
                 safetensors_paths: safetensors_str.clone(),
+                quant: quant.clone(),
             })
             .await?;
         }
@@ -531,6 +534,7 @@ impl WorkerPool {
         let comm_for_leader = leader_comm;
         let model_id_for_log = model_id.to_string();
         let config_json_for_leader = config_json.to_string();
+        let quant_for_leader = quant.clone();
 
         let leader_model = tokio::task::spawn_blocking(move || -> Result<TpLeaderModel> {
             // SAFETY: same invariant as the single-GPU dense path —
@@ -558,8 +562,16 @@ impl WorkerPool {
                     let cfg: super::tp::tp_qwen3_5::Config =
                         serde_json::from_str(&config_json_for_leader)
                             .context("parse Qwen3-Next Config JSON for leader load")?;
+                    let quant_dtype =
+                        super::tp::worker::parse_quant_string(quant_for_leader.as_deref())?;
                     TpLeaderModel::Qwen3_5(super::tp::tp_qwen3_5::TpQwen3_5ForCausalLM::load(
-                        cfg, &vb, &mmap, 0, world_size, comm,
+                        cfg,
+                        &vb,
+                        &mmap,
+                        0,
+                        world_size,
+                        comm,
+                        quant_dtype,
                     )?)
                 }
                 other => anyhow::bail!(

crates/neuron/src/harness/tp/rpc.rs

@@ -63,6 +63,13 @@ pub enum WorkerRequest {
         /// Absolute paths the worker should mmap. The same set on every
         /// rank; ShardedVarBuilder slices into them per rank.
         safetensors_paths: Vec<String>,
+        /// Optional in-situ quantization dtype (e.g. "q5k", "q8_0",
+        /// "q6k"). When set, each linear-layer weight is quantized
+        /// at load time to the named ggml format — saves ~3-5x vs
+        /// bf16/f16 at the cost of some accuracy. `None` keeps the
+        /// weights in the on-disk dtype (typically bf16).
+        #[serde(default)]
+        quant: Option<String>,
     },
 
     /// Run one forward step on this rank's loaded model. The worker

crates/neuron/src/harness/tp/tp_qwen3_5.rs

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 //! linear-attention block, lm_head, the rotary table.
 
 use anyhow::{Context, Result, bail};
+use candle_core::quantized::GgmlDType;
 use candle_core::safetensors::MmapedSafetensors;
 use candle_core::{DType, Device, IndexOp, Module, Tensor};
 use candle_nn::var_builder::ShardedVarBuilder;
@@ -59,7 +60,7 @@ pub struct TpGatedDeltaNetState {
 }
 
 pub(crate) struct TpQwen3_5GatedDeltaNet {
-    in_proj_qkv: Linear,
+    in_proj_qkv: super::tp_linear::MaybeQuantLinear,
     in_proj_z: ColumnParallelLinear,
     in_proj_b: ColumnParallelLinear,
     in_proj_a: ColumnParallelLinear,
@@ -92,6 +93,7 @@ pub(crate) struct TpQwen3_5GatedDeltaNet {
 
 impl TpQwen3_5GatedDeltaNet {
     #[cfg(feature = "cuda")]
+    #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
     pub fn load(
         cfg: &TextConfig,
         vb: &ShardedVarBuilder,
@@ -99,8 +101,9 @@ impl TpQwen3_5GatedDeltaNet {
         rank: u32,
         world_size: u32,
         comm: Arc<Comm>,
+        quant: Option<GgmlDType>,
     ) -> Result<Self> {
-        Self::load_inner(cfg, vb, mmap, rank, world_size, comm)
+        Self::load_inner(cfg, vb, mmap, rank, world_size, comm, quant)
     }
 
     #[cfg(not(feature = "cuda"))]
@@ -110,10 +113,12 @@ impl TpQwen3_5GatedDeltaNet {
         mmap: &MmapedSafetensors,
         rank: u32,
         world_size: u32,
+        quant: Option<GgmlDType>,
     ) -> Result<Self> {
-        Self::load_inner(cfg, vb, mmap, rank, world_size)
+        Self::load_inner(cfg, vb, mmap, rank, world_size, quant)
     }
 
+    #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
     fn load_inner(
         cfg: &TextConfig,
         vb: &ShardedVarBuilder,
@@ -121,6 +126,7 @@ impl TpQwen3_5GatedDeltaNet {
         rank: u32,
         world_size: u32,
         #[cfg(feature = "cuda")] comm: Arc<Comm>,
+        quant: Option<GgmlDType>,
     ) -> Result<Self> {
         let ws = world_size as usize;
         let num_v_heads = cfg.linear_num_value_heads;
@@ -177,7 +183,9 @@ impl TpQwen3_5GatedDeltaNet {
             dtype,
             &device,
         )?;
-        let in_proj_qkv = Linear::new(in_proj_qkv_weight, None);
+        let in_proj_qkv =
+            super::tp_linear::MaybeQuantLinear::from_weight(in_proj_qkv_weight, quant)
+                .with_context(|| format!("wrap fused in_proj_qkv for '{}'", vb.prefix()))?;
 
         let conv1d_name = format!("{}.conv1d.weight", vb.prefix());
         let conv1d_weight = super::fused_load::load_fused_qkv_3d(
@@ -195,10 +203,13 @@ impl TpQwen3_5GatedDeltaNet {
 
         // ----- Uniformly-sharded projections (along output dim 0). -----
         // in_proj_z: hidden → value_dim, sharded along value_dim (V-head).
-        let in_proj_z = ColumnParallelLinear::load(&vb.pp("in_proj_z"), rank, world_size)?;
+        let in_proj_z =
+            ColumnParallelLinear::load_with_quant(&vb.pp("in_proj_z"), rank, world_size, quant)?;
         // in_proj_b, in_proj_a: hidden → num_v_heads, sharded along output.
-        let in_proj_b = ColumnParallelLinear::load(&vb.pp("in_proj_b"), rank, world_size)?;
+        let in_proj_b =
-        let in_proj_a = ColumnParallelLinear::load(&vb.pp("in_proj_a"), rank, world_size)?;
+            ColumnParallelLinear::load_with_quant(&vb.pp("in_proj_b"), rank, world_size, quant)?;
+        let in_proj_a =
+            ColumnParallelLinear::load_with_quant(&vb.pp("in_proj_a"), rank, world_size, quant)?;
 
         // ----- Per-V-head 1D params (sharded uniformly). -----
         let a_log = vb
@@ -213,9 +224,11 @@ impl TpQwen3_5GatedDeltaNet {
 
         // ----- Output projection: row-parallel + AllReduce. -----
         #[cfg(feature = "cuda")]
-        let out_proj = RowParallelLinear::load(&vb.pp("out_proj"), rank, world_size, comm)?;
+        let out_proj =
+            RowParallelLinear::load_with_quant(&vb.pp("out_proj"), rank, world_size, comm, quant)?;
         #[cfg(not(feature = "cuda"))]
-        let out_proj = RowParallelLinear::load(&vb.pp("out_proj"), rank, world_size)?;
+        let out_proj =
+            RowParallelLinear::load_with_quant(&vb.pp("out_proj"), rank, world_size, quant)?;
 
         Ok(Self {
             in_proj_qkv,
@@ -418,6 +431,7 @@ pub(crate) struct TpQwen3_5Attention {
 
 impl TpQwen3_5Attention {
     #[cfg(feature = "cuda")]
+    #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
     pub fn load(
         cfg: &TextConfig,
         rotary: Arc<RotaryEmbedding>,
@@ -425,8 +439,9 @@ impl TpQwen3_5Attention {
         rank: u32,
         world_size: u32,
         comm: Arc<Comm>,
+        quant: Option<GgmlDType>,
     ) -> Result<Self> {
-        Self::load_inner(cfg, rotary, vb, rank, world_size, comm)
+        Self::load_inner(cfg, rotary, vb, rank, world_size, comm, quant)
     }
 
     #[cfg(not(feature = "cuda"))]
@@ -436,10 +451,12 @@ impl TpQwen3_5Attention {
         vb: &ShardedVarBuilder,
         rank: u32,
         world_size: u32,
+        quant: Option<GgmlDType>,
     ) -> Result<Self> {
-        Self::load_inner(cfg, rotary, vb, rank, world_size)
+        Self::load_inner(cfg, rotary, vb, rank, world_size, quant)
     }
 
+    #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
     fn load_inner(
         cfg: &TextConfig,
         rotary: Arc<RotaryEmbedding>,
@@ -447,6 +464,7 @@ impl TpQwen3_5Attention {
         rank: u32,
         world_size: u32,
         #[cfg(feature = "cuda")] comm: Arc<Comm>,
+        quant: Option<GgmlDType>,
     ) -> Result<Self> {
         let ws = world_size as usize;
         let num_heads = cfg.num_attention_heads;
@@ -468,13 +486,17 @@ impl TpQwen3_5Attention {
         // consistently — rank R holds heads `[R*per_rank, (R+1)*per_rank)`
         // for both query AND gate, so the post-attention `gate.sigmoid()`
         // multiply against the per-rank attention output matches up.
-        let q_proj = ColumnParallelLinear::load(&vb.pp("q_proj"), rank, world_size)?;
+        let q_proj =
-        let k_proj = ColumnParallelLinear::load(&vb.pp("k_proj"), rank, world_size)?;
+            ColumnParallelLinear::load_with_quant(&vb.pp("q_proj"), rank, world_size, quant)?;
-        let v_proj = ColumnParallelLinear::load(&vb.pp("v_proj"), rank, world_size)?;
+        let k_proj =
+            ColumnParallelLinear::load_with_quant(&vb.pp("k_proj"), rank, world_size, quant)?;
+        let v_proj =
+            ColumnParallelLinear::load_with_quant(&vb.pp("v_proj"), rank, world_size, quant)?;
         #[cfg(feature = "cuda")]
-        let o_proj = RowParallelLinear::load(&vb.pp("o_proj"), rank, world_size, comm)?;
+        let o_proj =
+            RowParallelLinear::load_with_quant(&vb.pp("o_proj"), rank, world_size, comm, quant)?;
         #[cfg(not(feature = "cuda"))]
-        let o_proj = RowParallelLinear::load(&vb.pp("o_proj"), rank, world_size)?;
+        let o_proj = RowParallelLinear::load_with_quant(&vb.pp("o_proj"), rank, world_size, quant)?;
 
         let q_norm = Qwen3_5RmsNorm::load(&vb.pp("q_norm"), head_dim, cfg.rms_norm_eps)?;
         let k_norm = Qwen3_5RmsNorm::load(&vb.pp("k_norm"), head_dim, cfg.rms_norm_eps)?;
@@ -572,12 +594,14 @@ pub(crate) struct TpQwen3_5MLP {
 
 impl TpQwen3_5MLP {
     #[cfg(feature = "cuda")]
+    #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
     pub fn load(
         cfg: &TextConfig,
         vb: &ShardedVarBuilder,
         rank: u32,
         world_size: u32,
         comm: Arc<Comm>,
+        quant: Option<GgmlDType>,
     ) -> Result<Self> {
         if !cfg.intermediate_size.is_multiple_of(world_size as usize) {
             bail!(
@@ -587,9 +611,25 @@ impl TpQwen3_5MLP {
             );
         }
         Ok(Self {
-            gate_proj: ColumnParallelLinear::load(&vb.pp("gate_proj"), rank, world_size)?,
+            gate_proj: ColumnParallelLinear::load_with_quant(
-            up_proj: ColumnParallelLinear::load(&vb.pp("up_proj"), rank, world_size)?,
+                &vb.pp("gate_proj"),
-            down_proj: RowParallelLinear::load(&vb.pp("down_proj"), rank, world_size, comm)?,
+                rank,
+                world_size,
+                quant,
+            )?,
+            up_proj: ColumnParallelLinear::load_with_quant(
+                &vb.pp("up_proj"),
+                rank,
+                world_size,
+                quant,
+            )?,
+            down_proj: RowParallelLinear::load_with_quant(
+                &vb.pp("down_proj"),
+                rank,
+                world_size,
+                comm,
+                quant,
+            )?,
         })
     }
 
@@ -599,6 +639,7 @@ impl TpQwen3_5MLP {
         vb: &ShardedVarBuilder,
         rank: u32,
         world_size: u32,
+        quant: Option<GgmlDType>,
     ) -> Result<Self> {
         if !cfg.intermediate_size.is_multiple_of(world_size as usize) {
             bail!(
@@ -608,9 +649,24 @@ impl TpQwen3_5MLP {
             );
         }
         Ok(Self {
-            gate_proj: ColumnParallelLinear::load(&vb.pp("gate_proj"), rank, world_size)?,
+            gate_proj: ColumnParallelLinear::load_with_quant(
-            up_proj: ColumnParallelLinear::load(&vb.pp("up_proj"), rank, world_size)?,
+                &vb.pp("gate_proj"),
-            down_proj: RowParallelLinear::load(&vb.pp("down_proj"), rank, world_size)?,
+                rank,
+                world_size,
+                quant,
+            )?,
+            up_proj: ColumnParallelLinear::load_with_quant(
+                &vb.pp("up_proj"),
+                rank,
+                world_size,
+                quant,
+            )?,
+            down_proj: RowParallelLinear::load_with_quant(
+                &vb.pp("down_proj"),
+                rank,
+                world_size,
+                quant,
+            )?,
         })
     }
 }
@@ -649,6 +705,7 @@ impl TpQwen3_5DecoderLayer {
         rank: u32,
         world_size: u32,
         comm: Arc<Comm>,
+        quant: Option<GgmlDType>,
     ) -> Result<Self> {
         let layer_type = cfg
             .layer_types
@@ -663,6 +720,7 @@ impl TpQwen3_5DecoderLayer {
                 rank,
                 world_size,
                 comm.clone(),
+                quant,
             )?),
             "linear_attention" => TpAttentionKind::Linear(TpQwen3_5GatedDeltaNet::load(
                 cfg,
@@ -671,10 +729,11 @@ impl TpQwen3_5DecoderLayer {
                 rank,
                 world_size,
                 comm.clone(),
+                quant,
             )?),
             other => bail!("unknown layer_type '{other}' for layer {layer_idx}"),
         };
-        let mlp = TpQwen3_5MLP::load(cfg, &vb.pp("mlp"), rank, world_size, comm)?;
+        let mlp = TpQwen3_5MLP::load(cfg, &vb.pp("mlp"), rank, world_size, comm, quant)?;
         let input_layernorm =
             Qwen3_5RmsNorm::load(&vb.pp("input_layernorm"), cfg.hidden_size, cfg.rms_norm_eps)?;
         let post_attention_layernorm = Qwen3_5RmsNorm::load(
@@ -691,6 +750,7 @@ impl TpQwen3_5DecoderLayer {
     }
 
     #[cfg(not(feature = "cuda"))]
+    #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
     pub fn load(
         cfg: &TextConfig,
         rotary: Arc<RotaryEmbedding>,
@@ -699,6 +759,7 @@ impl TpQwen3_5DecoderLayer {
         mmap: &MmapedSafetensors,
         rank: u32,
         world_size: u32,
+        quant: Option<GgmlDType>,
     ) -> Result<Self> {
         let layer_type = cfg
             .layer_types
@@ -712,6 +773,7 @@ impl TpQwen3_5DecoderLayer {
                 &vb.pp("self_attn"),
                 rank,
                 world_size,
+                quant,
             )?),
             "linear_attention" => TpAttentionKind::Linear(TpQwen3_5GatedDeltaNet::load(
                 cfg,
@@ -719,10 +781,11 @@ impl TpQwen3_5DecoderLayer {
                 mmap,
                 rank,
                 world_size,
+                quant,
             )?),
             other => bail!("unknown layer_type '{other}' for layer {layer_idx}"),
         };
-        let mlp = TpQwen3_5MLP::load(cfg, &vb.pp("mlp"), rank, world_size)?;
+        let mlp = TpQwen3_5MLP::load(cfg, &vb.pp("mlp"), rank, world_size, quant)?;
         let input_layernorm =
             Qwen3_5RmsNorm::load(&vb.pp("input_layernorm"), cfg.hidden_size, cfg.rms_norm_eps)?;
         let post_attention_layernorm = Qwen3_5RmsNorm::load(
@@ -775,6 +838,7 @@ pub struct TpQwen3_5Model {
 
 impl TpQwen3_5Model {
     #[cfg(feature = "cuda")]
+    #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
     pub fn load(
         cfg: &TextConfig,
         vb: &ShardedVarBuilder,
@@ -782,6 +846,7 @@ impl TpQwen3_5Model {
         rank: u32,
         world_size: u32,
         comm: Arc<Comm>,
+        quant: Option<GgmlDType>,
     ) -> Result<Self> {
         let dtype = vb.dtype();
         let device = vb.device().clone();
@@ -817,6 +882,7 @@ impl TpQwen3_5Model {
                 rank,
                 world_size,
                 comm.clone(),
+                quant,
             )
             .with_context(|| {
                 let (free_mb, total_mb) = cuda_mem_mb(&device);
@@ -844,6 +910,7 @@ impl TpQwen3_5Model {
         mmap: &MmapedSafetensors,
         rank: u32,
         world_size: u32,
+        quant: Option<GgmlDType>,
     ) -> Result<Self> {
         let dtype = vb.dtype();
         let device = vb.device().clone();
@@ -877,6 +944,7 @@ impl TpQwen3_5Model {
                 mmap,
                 rank,
                 world_size,
+                quant,
             )?);
         }
 
@@ -931,6 +999,7 @@ pub struct TpQwen3_5ForCausalLM {
 
 impl TpQwen3_5ForCausalLM {
     #[cfg(feature = "cuda")]
+    #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
     pub fn load(
         config: Config,
         vb: &ShardedVarBuilder,
@@ -938,9 +1007,10 @@ impl TpQwen3_5ForCausalLM {
         rank: u32,
         world_size: u32,
         comm: Arc<Comm>,
+        quant: Option<GgmlDType>,
     ) -> Result<Self> {
         let cfg = &config.text_config;
-        let base = TpQwen3_5Model::load(cfg, vb, mmap, rank, world_size, comm)?;
+        let base = TpQwen3_5Model::load(cfg, vb, mmap, rank, world_size, comm, quant)?;
         let lm_head = build_lm_head(cfg, vb, &base)?;
         Ok(Self { base, lm_head })
     }
@@ -952,9 +1022,10 @@ impl TpQwen3_5ForCausalLM {
         mmap: &MmapedSafetensors,
         rank: u32,
         world_size: u32,
+        quant: Option<GgmlDType>,
     ) -> Result<Self> {
         let cfg = &config.text_config;
-        let base = TpQwen3_5Model::load(cfg, vb, mmap, rank, world_size)?;
+        let base = TpQwen3_5Model::load(cfg, vb, mmap, rank, world_size, quant)?;
         let lm_head = build_lm_head(cfg, vb, &base)?;
         Ok(Self { base, lm_head })
     }

crates/neuron/src/harness/tp/worker.rs

@@ -160,7 +160,8 @@ impl WorkerState {
                 model_id,
                 config_json,
                 safetensors_paths,
-            } => self.handle_load_dense_shard(model_id, config_json, safetensors_paths),
+                quant,
+            } => self.handle_load_dense_shard(model_id, config_json, safetensors_paths, quant),
             WorkerRequest::GenerateStep {
                 model_id,
                 tokens,
@@ -178,6 +179,7 @@ impl WorkerState {
         model_id: String,
         config_json: String,
         safetensors_paths: Vec<String>,
+        quant: Option<String>,
     ) -> WorkerResponse {
         use crate::harness::arch::qwen3_5 as qwen3_5_arch;
         use candle_core::{DType, Device};
@@ -185,6 +187,16 @@ impl WorkerState {
         use candle_transformers::models::qwen3 as qwen3_dense;
         use std::path::PathBuf;
 
+        let quant_dtype = match parse_quant_string(quant.as_deref()) {
+            Ok(q) => q,
+            Err(e) => {
+                return WorkerResponse::Error {
+                    kind: "bad_request".into(),
+                    message: format!("parse quant: {e}"),
+                };
+            }
+        };
+
         if self.models.contains_key(&model_id) {
             return WorkerResponse::Error {
                 kind: "already_loaded".into(),
@@ -290,6 +302,7 @@ impl WorkerState {
                     self.config.rank,
                     self.config.world_size,
                     comm,
+                    quant_dtype,
                 ) {
                     Ok(m) => WorkerModel::Qwen3_5(m),
                     Err(e) => {
@@ -326,6 +339,7 @@ impl WorkerState {
         _model_id: String,
         _config_json: String,
         _safetensors_paths: Vec<String>,
+        _quant: Option<String>,
     ) -> WorkerResponse {
         WorkerResponse::Error {
             kind: "cuda_feature_not_enabled".into(),
@@ -444,3 +458,45 @@ impl WorkerState {
         }
     }
 }
+
+/// Parse a `ModelSpec.quant` string into a `GgmlDType`. Accepts the
+/// common ggml format names (case-insensitive). `None` and `Some("")`
+/// both map to "no quantization".
+///
+/// Supported: `q4_0`, `q4_1`, `q5_0`, `q5_1`, `q8_0`, `q8_1`,
+/// `q2k`/`q2_k`, `q3k`/`q3_k`, `q4k`/`q4_k`, `q5k`/`q5_k`,
+/// `q6k`/`q6_k`, `q8k`/`q8_k`, `f16`, `bf16`, `f32`. The underscore
+/// is optional and the prefix is case-insensitive.
+#[cfg(feature = "cuda")]
+pub(crate) fn parse_quant_string(
+    s: Option<&str>,
+) -> anyhow::Result<Option<candle_core::quantized::GgmlDType>> {
+    use candle_core::quantized::GgmlDType;
+    let s = match s {
+        Some(s) if !s.is_empty() => s,
+        _ => return Ok(None),
+    };
+    let normalised = s.to_ascii_lowercase().replace('_', "");
+    let dtype = match normalised.as_str() {
+        "q40" => GgmlDType::Q4_0,
+        "q41" => GgmlDType::Q4_1,
+        "q50" => GgmlDType::Q5_0,
+        "q51" => GgmlDType::Q5_1,
+        "q80" => GgmlDType::Q8_0,
+        "q81" => GgmlDType::Q8_1,
+        "q2k" => GgmlDType::Q2K,
+        "q3k" => GgmlDType::Q3K,
+        "q4k" | "q4km" => GgmlDType::Q4K,
+        "q5k" | "q5km" => GgmlDType::Q5K,
+        "q6k" => GgmlDType::Q6K,
+        "q8k" => GgmlDType::Q8K,
+        "f16" => GgmlDType::F16,
+        "bf16" => GgmlDType::BF16,
+        "f32" => GgmlDType::F32,
+        other => anyhow::bail!(
+            "unknown quant '{other}' (expected one of: q4_0, q4_1, q5_0, q5_1, q8_0, \
+             q8_1, q2k, q3k, q4k, q5k, q6k, q8k, f16, bf16, f32)"
+        ),
+    };
+    Ok(Some(dtype))
+}