r/LocalLLaMA July 17, 2026 · Communities

[RESEARCH] Breaking the 1-bit Floor: Achieving "Negative-Bit Quantization" (NBQ) via Phase-Inverted Tensor Embedding (satire)

Hey everyone, I’ve spent the last three weeks compiling custom llama.cpp forks and running imatrix maps on a modified CUDA kernel setup, and the numbers don’t lie. We’ve been looking at model compression completely wrong. Everyone in the community has assumed that 1-bit quantization (like BitNet or ternary quants) is t