Show HN: Shoehorn – Quantize any model down to run on your machine
notactuallytreyanastasio.github.ioWorking on Mac, Linux, and Windows now. I include a simple GUI to find new models and get things built and set up. It is working quite well across a few models for me. The GitHub README and DESIGN.md files go into detail of the how/why and it's working remarkably well so far. https://github.com/notactuallytreyanastasio/shoehorn
This is really impressive. Can you say a bit about the underlying process? I'm guessing this is post-training qantization? Isn't PTQ also resource-intensive? (Ie might not work on any machine)
Reminds me of https://github.com/AlexsJones/llmfit
LLMFit tells you what can run on something. I built something quite similar to their search into Shoehorn now.
The project name is perfect!
I gotta laugh at some of the models it suggests, for example:
> AnkitAI/Parable-Qwen3-4B-Claude-Fable-5-GGUF
you’re telling me you managed to fit Fable 5 into just 4B?
I gotta laugh at your thought process: knowing Fable 5 is a large frontier model, you're telling me that the first thing that came to your mind on seeing that model name is that it's a quantized version of Fable? As opposed to a distillation/fine-tuning on Fable responses?
Well to be fair here... the title of this post doesn't mention fine tuning, it mentions quantization.
Don't make fun of people you think are ignorant, it's a pretty shitty look
Well, then don't get all snarky and dismissive of things you might not be knowledgeable about ("you" here referring to OP).
This is interesting. I wonder how it could work with something like https://github.com/JustVugg/colibri.
does this work similar to airllm? i am wondering how it would handle something like quantizing kimi k3 on a budget of 8 gbs, or is that something you are not attempting to solve yet?
Yes that is exactly what this does.
Could you explain what happens when you try to shoehorn a 2.4T parameter model into a 24gb m4 mac?
extreme divergence would be my guess
Wondering the same thing but for 48gb M5 Max.
tried it out but based on the model sizing result i got i got an insufficient memory error when the server started running
If you could post an issue if you still have the error around that would be awesome.