Index-Translate-35B-A3B-preview-GGUF
Official GGUF conversion of IndexTeam/Index-Translate-35B-A3B-preview, part of the Index-Translate multilingual translation model family (150 languages, terminology/format-constrained translation, controlled dubbing translation, long-document translation).
Provided files
(sorted by size)
The mmproj files are the multi-modal projector for the vision tower; they are only needed for image-input use with llama-mtmd-cli. For text-only translation, the plain GGUF files suffice.
Usage
Translation prompt format (greedy decoding, temperature=0 recommended; use the chat template with enable_thinking: false):
Prompting & constrained translation (instTrans)
Beyond plain translation, the models follow the instTrans constrained-translation format. The official client wraps requests into the canonical structure 【源文】<text> + numbered 1. 【硬性要求】<hard constraints> + 2. 【注意】<soft constraints> + suffix instructions:
- Hard constraints (binary, must hold): strict terminology glossary enforcement (e.g.
碳纤维:carbon fiber, 抗裂缝:crack resistance), and format/structure preservation for JSON/CSV/code/placeholders.
- Soft constraints (graded): tone & style adaptation (e.g. formal business-email register), domain/word-sense disambiguation (e.g. plant → 工厂 in an industrial context), cross-sentence consistency, LaTeX preservation.
- Syllable-controlled translation (dubbing): use the Index-Homura checkpoints (IndexTeam/Index-Homura-2B/9B), which strictly respect a target syllable budget and can be combined with glossaries.
Full prompt reference: github.com/bilibili/Index-Translate (Instruction Following section, docs/prompts.md, inference/llm/cases/).
See the base model card for the full instTrans constrained-translation format and serving presets.
Consistency validation
Before release, each quantization tier was validated on GPU (NVIDIA A100) against the F16 conversion: per-token KL divergence / RMS Δp via llama-perplexity, plus greedy-generation spot checks against the original BF16 weights (transformers reference). Generation outputs of Q4_K_M matched the reference almost verbatim.
Converted and published by the Index team, 2026-10-03.