GGUF-based LoRA training fits Qwen3.5-35B-A3B into 16GB VRAM
woct0rdho · reddit · 2026-07-21
A GitHub project shows how to train Qwen3.5-35B-A3B LoRA models in 16 GB VRAM using GGUF as the base model format. The author claims GGUF is becoming a better base than bitsandbytes for low-VRAM training because it supports newer model types and quantization schemes, and reports that with APEX quant the model can fit at 13.3 GiB with fused dequant-matmul/MoE kernels. On Strix Halo, the setup reportedly reaches 6.5 s/it with batch size 1, 2048 token chunks, and LoRA rank 4, and the repo also spun out torch-ggml-ops for PyTorch bindings.
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