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The Multilingual Quantization Tax: Structural Collapse and Typological Fragility in Edge SLMs
arXiv:2608.09941v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While 4-bit weight quantization is critical for deploying Small Language Models (SLMs) on edge devices, evaluations of the resulting performance degradation-the quantization tax-remain overwhelmingly English-centric. We present a zero-shot multilingual evaluation of 4-bit