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Intel squeezed a 1.58-bit LLM down to 1.485 bits without changing a single weight

September 17

The 1.58 in a 1.58-bit language model sounds like a hard limit, but Intel researchers pushed a ternary model below it by changing how its weights are stored rather than changing the model itself.

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