In the previous article we saw why a uniform quantization grid wastes precision on bell-curved LLM weights. We also saw how non-linear methods (quantile quantization, NF4, k-means) fix the problem. They reshape the grid itself, spending more bins where the weights actually live. Modern production quantization then takes a surprising turn: it goes back to the uniform grid. Not be...
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