diff --git a/src/axolotl/utils/schemas/config.py b/src/axolotl/utils/schemas/config.py
index 641b444e9..e1ccdde97 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/utils/schemas/config.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/utils/schemas/config.py
@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@ class AxolotlInputConfig(
     ModelOutputConfig,
     LoraConfig,
     ReLoRAConfig,
-    QuantizationConfig,
     HyperparametersConfig,
     WandbConfig,
     MLFlowConfig,
@@ -85,6 +84,8 @@ class AxolotlInputConfig(
     # optionally shrink the embeddings when the tokenizer vocab size is smaller
     shrink_embeddings: bool | None = None
 
+    quantization: QuantizationConfig | None = None
+
     rl: RLType | None = None
     trl: TRLConfig | None = Field(
         default_factory=lambda: TRLConfig(),  # pylint: disable=unnecessary-lambda
diff --git a/src/axolotl/utils/schemas/quant.py b/src/axolotl/utils/schemas/quant.py
index 4714d0799..6f8b17b53 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/utils/schemas/quant.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/utils/schemas/quant.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Takes care of quantization configuration
 """
 
-from typing import Annotated
+from typing import Annotated, Any, Literal
 
 from annotated_types import MinLen
 from pydantic import BaseModel, Field, model_validator
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ from pydantic import BaseModel, Field, model_validator
 class HQQConfig(BaseModel):
     """HQQ configuration subset"""
 
-    nbits: int | None = Field(default=None)
-    group_size: int | None = Field(default=None)
+    nbits: Literal[8, 4, 3, 2, 1]
+    group_size: int = Field(default=64)
     target_modules: list[str] | str | None = Field(
         default=None,
         json_schema_extra={
@@ -25,7 +25,9 @@ class QuantizationConfig(BaseModel):
     """Over all Quantization configuration subset"""
 
     # We will use this class as base future refactoring of all quantization configs
-    use_hqq: bool = False
+    backend: Literal["bnb", "hqq", "gptq"] | None = None
+    bits: int | None = None
+    bnb_config: dict[str, Any] | None = None
     hqq_config: Annotated[list[HQQConfig], MinLen(1)] | None = None
 
     @model_validator(mode="before")