That’s fascinating, but not that surprising to me. We act like quantisation is free “Q8 is basically lossless” is often said in the local LLM community, but it really isn’t. The trade offs are worth it, personally, and the damage to coding ability seems low: decision model approaches are stricter though
replySuper cool finding!
Interesting - I wonder if it's because coding doesn't use the specific token probabilities, while decision models do
replyYes this is the reason. Transformations like quantisation preserve the rank of outcomes much better than probability mass.
replyI think it also helps that speed and latency aren't as vital for coding and we can afford to let the model think for longer.
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