I gotta develop a tool which get the text from doctor handwritting, do you guys know any good strategy for that? https://preview.redd.it/jisxcc2aozhh1.png?width=1103&format=png&auto=webp&s=333b14a782e775ec5ae1738e49c535b7f78a0d57 submitted by /u/Miserable-Love9055 [link]…
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High-performance inference of NVIDIA's Parakeet TDT 0.6B V2 English transcription model, in the browser. Check out the live demo: https://parakeet.narcotic.sh/ A fully custom, dependancy-free implementation with…
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I’m curious whether there is now a theoretical or empirical “sweet spot” for LLM quantization, preferably research done using open-source formats like GGUF Suppose you have…
A fresh llama.cpp PR (#26689) changes what looks like a tiny SYCL FlashAttention dispatch decision. With a quantized KV cache ("q4_0" / "q8_0"), decode was being…
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I have not been successful with management to get funding for local resources despite bringing forth solid arguments about data sovereignty and related architectures. What actually…
Or is there any reason why I feel like model output quality seems to be better when I use higher micro-batch values (ub) in llama-cpp? I…
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