# Provenance

## Target

- Model family: ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B
- NInfer variant: D48
- Base recipe: `qwen3_8_27b`
- Components: text
- Additional override: 48 selected `mlp/down` projections to NVFP4
- Activation policy for those overrides: `AllowA4`
- Activation input divisor used in the current experiment: `1.0`

## Converter / runtime development state

Base checkout commit:

```text
9e163eee4b8acec21ab0ac765107b6a3f287b217
```

Recorded local `git diff` SHA256 from the experimental checkout:

```text
2e526a1eb2333992c146fde7324d7f615dc3e4a8dae1bc01f54357aaeed2befa
```

Converter image used in the experiment:

```text
ninfer:a2-convert
```

Perplexity image used in the experiment:

```text
ninfer-lab/weekly-cal-down-probe-ppl:9e163eee-local-20260922
```

Benchmark image used in the experiment:

```text
ninfer:a2-bench
```

## Model construction rule

All NInfer artifacts are generated directly from the original BF16/FP16 checkpoint. Existing `.ninfer` artifacts are not used as quantization sources.

## Expected D48 artifact

Filename:

```text
thinkingcap-qwen3.8-27b-d48.ninfer
```

Exact file size:

```text
16705529348 bytes
```

Runtime weight capacity observed during benchmark:

```text
16692422656 bytes
```

Workspace capacity observed during benchmark:

```text
159981568 bytes
```

The model binary itself is intentionally not included in this package.