Honey, I shrunk the LLM! A beginner’s guide to quantization – and testing itTobias Mannon July 14, 2024 at 11:32 The Register
Just be careful not to shave off too many bits … These things are known to hallucinate as it is
Hands on If you hop on Hugging Face and start browsing through large language models, you’ll quickly notice a trend: Most have been trained at 16-bit floating point of Brain-float precision. …