Standings

Leaderboard

One board per model: participants, then references (standard recipes and published checkpoints), each ranked on its own. A solution that passes the accuracy, speed, and length gates scores LowBScore = E · exp(−max(D, 0) / 10); BF16 scores 1, and a failed gate keeps 0.1 of the score (hover the red score for the gate). A participant's score is its LowBScore × exp(−GPU·h / 100), the GPU-hours its evaluations of the task used.

Why published checkpoints rank low. Weight-only 4-bit checkpoints serve batches and long prompts at 0.35–0.55× BF16's speed, and most NVFP4 checkpoints cannot show every domain within 5 points.

Participants overall (mean over both models; a model without a solution counts 0): trial2-8b 0.923, trial-opus-5.5 0.763, trial2-27b 0.000

Qwen3-8B

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#	Method	Checkpoint	W·A·KV	Engine	Memory	Speed	KL	PPL	Acc	GenLen	E	D	GPU·h	Score
Participants · submitted through the API
1	FP8-W8A8+FP8head+INT4emb+KV8+seqs22+kvbudget192k-trial2-8b	`lowbarena-trial-8b2-fp8-fp8head-int4emb`	W8A8KV8	own	3.39×	1.18×	0.011	+0.5%	-0.56	+0.7%	1.99	0.54	2.3	1.846
2	FP8-W8A8+FP8-head+INT4-emb+calKV-FP8+seqs64+bt4096+compile1-trial-opus-5.5	`lowbarena-trial-fp8-v1`	W8A8KV8	own	2.01×	1.37×	0.012	+0.5%	-0.11	+1.6%	1.65	0.20	5.7	1.526
References · standard recipes and published checkpoints, ranked apart
1	FP8 per channel + FP8 KV	`Qwen3-8B-FP8-Dynamic`	W8A8KV8	stock vLLM	1.81×	1.33×	0.010	+0.1%	-0.63	+1.6%	1.54	0.58	–	1.455
2	FP8 KV cache	`Qwen/Qwen3-8B`	W16A16KV8	stock vLLM	1.41×	1.10×	0.005	0.0%	+0.08	0.0%	1.24	-0.02	–	1.244
3	FP8 per channel	`Qwen3-8B-FP8-Dynamic`	W8A8KV16	stock vLLM	1.24×	1.18×	0.005	+0.5%	0.00	+1.3%	1.20	0.04	–	1.200
4	FP8, 128x128 blocks	`Qwen/Qwen3-8B-FP8`	W8A8KV16	stock vLLM	1.23×	1.19×	0.006	+1.1%	-0.15	+2.2%	1.19	0.17	–	1.173
5	BF16	`Qwen/Qwen3-8B`	W16A16KV16	stock vLLM	1.00×	1.00×	0.000	0.0%	0.00	0.0%	1.00	0.00	–	1.000
	Did not qualify · a failed gate keeps a tenth of the score; hover it for the gate
	NVFP4 GPTQ + scale search + FP8 KV	`Qwen3-8B-NVFP4-chat-ss`	W4A4KV8	stock vLLM	2.11×	1.63×	0.050	+3.9%	-2.74	+4.5%	1.82	2.61	–	0.140
	NVFP4, ModelOpt	`nvidia/Qwen3-8B-NVFP4`	W4A4KV8	stock vLLM	2.14×	1.60×	0.062	+3.8%	-2.98	+6.3%	1.79	2.91	–	0.134
	NVFP4 + FP8 KV	`Qwen3-8B-NVFP4`	W4A4KV8	stock vLLM	2.12×	1.65×	0.061	+3.5%	-3.19	+6.5%	1.81	3.07	–	0.133
	NVFP4 GPTQ + scale search	`Qwen3-8B-NVFP4-chat-ss`	W4A4KV16	stock vLLM	1.42×	1.39×	0.043	+4.0%	-2.07	+2.4%	1.39	2.03	–	0.114
	NVFP4	`Qwen3-8B-NVFP4`	W4A4KV16	stock vLLM	1.42×	1.37×	0.055	+3.7%	-2.77	+6.5%	1.35	2.68	–	0.103
	SpinQuant + GPTQ	`Qwen3-8B-SpinQuant-W4A16`	W4A16KV16	stock vLLM	1.44×	0.65×	0.027	+3.1%	-0.77	+5.1%	0.94	0.86	–	0.087
	GPTQ + FP8 KV	`Qwen3-8B-GPTQ-W4A16`	W4A16KV8	stock vLLM	2.14×	0.64×	0.079	+5.3%	-2.86	+7.6%	1.13	2.97	–	0.084
	AWQ + FP8 KV	`Qwen3-8B-AWQ-W4A16`	W4A16KV8	stock vLLM	2.13×	0.66×	0.053	+5.2%	-4.53	+8.1%	1.14	4.06	–	0.076
	GPTQ	`Qwen3-8B-GPTQ-W4A16`	W4A16KV16	stock vLLM	1.43×	0.66×	0.075	+5.3%	-2.36	+6.1%	0.94	2.54	–	0.073
	AWQ	`Qwen3-8B-AWQ-W4A16`	W4A16KV16	stock vLLM	1.44×	0.64×	0.049	+5.2%	-3.40	+6.3%	0.93	3.12	–	0.068
	NF4 dynamic, Unsloth	`unsloth/Qwen3-8B-unsloth-bnb-4bit`	W4A16KV16	stock vLLM	1.18×	0.66×	0.032	–	-1.55	+3.0%	–	–	–	fails
	NF4 dynamic, Unsloth + FP8 KV	`unsloth/Qwen3-8B-unsloth-bnb-4bit`	W4A16KV8	stock vLLM	1.98×	0.74×	0.037	–	-1.90	+2.0%	–	–	–	fails
	NF4, Unsloth	`unsloth/Qwen3-8B-bnb-4bit`	W4A16KV16	stock vLLM	1.21×	0.63×	0.036	–	-2.14	+2.3%	–	–	–	fails
	Not yet scored
	GPTQ + scale search + FP8 KV	`Qwen3-8B-GPTQ-W4A16-chat-ss`	W4A16KV8	stock vLLM	2.10×	0.51×	0.034	+2.7%	-0.25	-1.1%	–	–	–	measuring
	GPTQ + scale search	`Qwen3-8B-GPTQ-W4A16-chat-ss`	W4A16KV16	stock vLLM	1.21×	0.54×	0.028	+2.6%	-0.01	-1.2%	–	–	–	measuring
	AWQ	`Qwen/Qwen3-8B-AWQ`	W4A16KV16	stock vLLM	1.21×	0.54×	0.030	+3.2%	-0.05	+1.0%	–	–	–	measuring
	FP8 dynamic, llm-compressor	`RedHatAI/Qwen3-8B-FP8-dynamic`	W8A8KV16	stock vLLM	—	—	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	queued
	NVFP4, llm-compressor	`RedHatAI/Qwen3-8B-NVFP4`	W4A4KV16	stock vLLM	—	—	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	queued
	GPTQ W4A16, llm-compressor	`RedHatAI/Qwen3-8B-quantized.w4a16`	W4A16KV16	stock vLLM	—	—	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	queued
	FP8, ModelOpt	`nvidia/Qwen3-8B-FP8`	W8A8KV8	stock vLLM	—	—	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	queued

Scored on one workload alone, the leader would be trial-opus-5.5 on the serve workload, trial-opus-5.5 one request at a time, and trial2-8b on long prompts.

Qwen3.5-27B

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#	Method	Checkpoint	W·A·KV	Engine	Memory	Speed	KL	PPL	Acc	GenLen	E	D	GPU·h	Score
Participants · submitted through the API
	Did not qualify · a failed gate keeps a tenth of the score; hover it for the gate
	NVFP4+FP8 head+INT4 emb+fp16 GDN state+cap-safe serving-trial2-27b	`lowbarena-trial-27b-v1`	W4A4KV8	own	—	—	0.027	–	–	–	–	–	10.3	0
References · standard recipes and published checkpoints, ranked apart
1	NVFP4, ModelOpt + FP8 KV	`AxionML/Qwen3.5-27B-NVFP4`	W4A4KV8	stock vLLM	2.10×	1.90×	0.028	–	-1.10	+0.8%	1.99	1.12	–	1.777
2	NVFP4 + FP8 KV	`Qwen3.5-27B-NVFP4`	W4A4KV8	stock vLLM	1.83×	1.61×	0.020	+2.3%	-0.62	+1.0%	1.71	0.67	–	1.594
3	FP8 per channel	`Qwen3.5-27B-FP8-Dynamic`	W8A8KV16	stock vLLM	1.31×	1.23×	0.002	+0.2%	+0.27	-0.4%	1.27	-0.19	–	1.271
4	FP8, 128x128 blocks	`Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B-FP8`	W8A8KV16	stock vLLM	1.42×	1.03×	0.002	+0.2%	-0.21	+0.1%	1.21	0.18	–	1.187
5	FP8 KV cache	`Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B`	W16A16KV8	stock vLLM	1.15×	1.03×	0.000	0.0%	-0.12	+0.3%	1.08	0.10	–	1.072
6	BF16	`Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B`	W16A16KV16	stock vLLM	1.00×	1.00×	0.000	0.0%	0.00	0.0%	1.00	0.00	–	1.000
	Did not qualify · a failed gate keeps a tenth of the score; hover it for the gate
	NVFP4 on the agent's coverage	`Qwen3.5-27B-NVFP4-GDN-calKV`	W4A4KV8	stock vLLM	2.20×	1.93×	0.085	–	-3.16	+1.4%	2.05	3.26	–	0.148
	NVFP4, llm-compressor	`apolo13x/Qwen3.5-27B-NVFP4`	W4A4KV16	stock vLLM	1.79×	1.78×	0.083	+8.0%	-3.24	+1.9%	1.77	3.30	–	0.127
	GPTQ + FP8 KV	`Qwen3.5-27B-GPTQ-W4A16`	W4A16KV8	stock vLLM	1.85×	0.66×	0.028	+2.1%	-0.79	-0.6%	1.11	0.87	–	0.102
	GPTQ Int4, Qwen	`Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B-GPTQ-Int4`	W4A16KV16	stock vLLM	1.45×	0.68×	0.010	+1.5%	+0.19	-1.1%	0.99	-0.06	–	0.099
	AWQ, QuantTrio	`QuantTrio/Qwen3.5-27B-AWQ`	W4A16KV16	stock vLLM	1.75×	0.61×	0.018	–	-0.66	+0.4%	1.03	0.69	–	0.096
	AutoRound	`kaitchup/Qwen3.5-27B-autoround-W4A16`	W4A16KV16	stock vLLM	1.82×	0.57×	0.012	+1.1%	-0.67	0.0%	1.01	0.64	–	0.095
	GPTQ	`Qwen3.5-27B-GPTQ-W4A16`	W4A16KV16	stock vLLM	1.54×	0.62×	0.028	+2.1%	-1.00	-0.3%	0.98	1.04	–	0.088
	Not yet scored
	FP8 on the agent's coverage	`Qwen3.5-27B-FP8-GDN-calKV`	W8A8KV8	stock vLLM	1.69×	1.30×	0.003	–	+0.10	+0.2%	–	–	–	measuring
	FP8 per channel + FP8 KV	`Qwen3.5-27B-FP8-Dynamic`	W8A8KV8	stock vLLM	1.54×	1.23×	0.002	+0.2%	+0.09	-0.4%	–	–	–	measuring
	FP8, 128x128 blocks + FP8 KV	`Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B-FP8`	W8A8KV8	stock vLLM	1.74×	1.04×	0.002	–	-0.21	+0.3%	–	–	–	measuring
	NVFP4	`Qwen3.5-27B-NVFP4`	W4A4KV16	stock vLLM	1.47×	1.55×	0.019	+2.2%	-0.64	+0.4%	–	–	–	measuring
	NVFP4, ModelOpt	`AxionML/Qwen3.5-27B-NVFP4`	W4A4KV16	stock vLLM	1.77×	1.74×	0.026	+2.8%	-0.95	+0.7%	–	–	–	measuring
	AutoRound int4, Intel	`Intel/Qwen3.5-27B-int4-AutoRound`	W4A16KV16	stock vLLM	—	—	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	queued
	NVFP4, kaitchup	`kaitchup/Qwen3.5-27B-NVFP4`	W4A4KV16	stock vLLM	—	—	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	queued
	Failed · the build or the evaluation stopped; hover the status for why
	AWQ	`Qwen3.5-27B-AWQ-W4A16`	W4A16KV16	stock vLLM	—	—	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	build fails
	AWQ + FP8 KV	`Qwen3.5-27B-AWQ-W4A16`	W4A16KV8	stock vLLM	—	—	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	build fails
	INT4, llm-compressor	`apolo13x/Qwen3.5-27B-quantized.w4a16`	—	stock vLLM	—	—	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	failed
	AWQ g32, cyankiwi	`cyankiwi/Qwen3.5-27B-AWQ-4bit`	W4A16KV16	stock vLLM	—	—	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	failed

Scored on one workload alone, the leader would be AxionML NVFP4 + FP8 KV on the serve workload, kaitchup/Qwen3.5-27B-autoround-W4A16 one request at a time, and AxionML NVFP4 + FP8 KV on long prompts.

Memory and Speed: gains over BF16 in the same pod, geometric means over the three workloads. Acc: mean accuracy change in points. E = √(memory × speed / max(1, 1 + GenLen)); D = 0.79 × drop + 0.21 × 42.8 × KL. Hover a column or a value for details.