Forbes

How Mixed-Precision Quantization Could Break AI’s Power Addiction

It turns out the rapid growth of AI has a massive downside: namely, spiraling power consumption, strained infrastructure and runaway environmental damage. It’s clear the status quo won’t cut it ...
InfoWorld

What is model quantization? Smaller, faster LLMs

Reducing the precision of model weights can make deep neural networks run faster in less GPU memory, while preserving model accuracy. If ever there were a salient example of a counter-intuitive ...
GIGAZINE

Huawei announces 'SINQ,' an open-source quantization method that reduces memory usage of AI models by 60-70% and enables them to run on inexpensive, low-performance hardware

Huawei, a major Chinese technology company, has announced Sinkhorn-Normalized Quantization (SINQ), a quantization technique that enables large-scale language models (LLMs) to run on consumer-grade ...
Hosted on MSN

Maximizing self-hosted LLM performance with limited VRAM

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly everywhere. Copilot, ChatGPT, and others are now so ubiquitous that you almost can’t use a website without being exposed to some form of "artificial ...
Hackaday

Making The Smallest And Dumbest LLM With Extreme Quantization

The reason why large language models are called ‘large’ is not because of how smart they are, but as a factor of their sheer size in bytes. At billions of parameters at four bytes each, they pose a ...
VentureBeat

Here are 3 critical LLM compression strategies to supercharge AI performance

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, businesses relying on AI face ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Ultra-low-bit LLM Inference Allows AI-PC CPUs And Discrete Client GPUs To Approach High-end GPU-Level (Intel)

A new technical paper titled “Pushing the Envelope of LLM Inference on AI-PC and Intel GPUs” was published by researcher at Intel. “The advent of ultra-low-bit LLM models (1/1.58/2-bit), which match ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Neural Network Model Quantization On Mobile

The general definition of quantization states that it is the process of mapping continuous infinite values to a smaller set of discrete finite values. In this blog, we will talk about quantization in ...