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Gemma 4 QAT handles KV cache quantization MUCH better, KLD benchmarks show
Link to the article: KV Cache Quantization on Gemma 4 31B: Non-QAT vs QAT KLD benchmarks with BeeLlama.cpp v0.4.3, fork of llama.cpp with more KV cache quantization options, comparing Gemma Q4_0 non-QAT vs Gemma Q4_0 QAT. Long story short: QAT is much more friendly to KV cache quantization, moving same-top agreement fr