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▲ rybosworld 2 hours ago

These nerf trackers do not work. I wish people would stop posting them.

They don't detect a quantized model until the quantization gets down to 4 bits or less.

Humans absolutely do detect quantization well before 4 bits...

Try it yourself if you want. Try a small local model, both quantized and not, and I would be very surprised if it isn't immediately obvious which is which.

▲j_maffe 2 hours ago | parent [-]

But quantized local models also dip in evals.

▲rybosworld 2 hours ago | parent [-]

It doesn't matter if it's local or not, I just suggested local so people could test themselves.

But no, evals and benchmarks do not detect quantization, until around 4 bit quantization.

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/10/17/we-ran-ove...

https://pub.towardsai.net/your-model-passed-safety-evals-the...