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What is currently considered the theoretically optimal quantization bit-width for LLMs? [D]
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 fixed memory/compute budget and can choose the model size freely. For example, instead of a smaller model at 8-bit or 4-bit, you could fit a prog