Quantization
Representing model weights or activations with lower numerical precision.
What Quantization means
It reduces memory and compute requirements, sometimes at the cost of output quality or stability.
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Questions about Quantization
What is Quantization?
Representing model weights or activations with lower numerical precision.
Which area of the glossary does Quantization belong to?
Models and generation: How a model produces text, what its training and decoding controls change, and what none of them can prove about a source.
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