Quantization of LLMs can degrade many SAE features even when perplexity improves or stays similar, as shown by correlation measurements on frozen SAEs for Pythia-70M and Gemma-2-2B models across INT8 to INT4.
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LLM 2-bit quantization fails via either cumulative signal degradation or early computation collapse in key components.
Small LLMs under 2B parameters achieve better economic break-even, energy efficiency, and hardware density than larger models on legacy GPUs for industrial tasks.
QM-ToT applies Tree of Thoughts decomposition and evaluator layers to quantized LLMs, reporting accuracy gains from 34% to 50% on MedQAUSMLE for LLaMA2-70b and from 58.77% to 69.49% for LLaMA-3.1-8b, plus an 86.27% improvement in data distillation using only 3.9% of the data.
GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet reach 73.7-74% accuracy on gastroenterology questions; VLMs gain nothing from images and lose accuracy with LLM-generated captions.
Smaller LLMs produce functional but limited Python code with variable quantization effects and quality/maintainability concerns that require validation before use.
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Perplexity Can Miss SAE Feature Damage Under Quantization
Quantization of LLMs can degrade many SAE features even when perplexity improves or stays similar, as shown by correlation measurements on frozen SAEs for Pythia-70M and Gemma-2-2B models across INT8 to INT4.
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From Signal Degradation to Computation Collapse: Uncovering the Two Failure Modes of LLM Quantization
LLM 2-bit quantization fails via either cumulative signal degradation or early computation collapse in key components.
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Are Large Language Models Economically Viable for Industry Deployment?
Small LLMs under 2B parameters achieve better economic break-even, energy efficiency, and hardware density than larger models on legacy GPUs for industrial tasks.
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QM-ToT: A Medical Tree of Thoughts Reasoning Framework for Quantized Model
QM-ToT applies Tree of Thoughts decomposition and evaluator layers to quantized LLMs, reporting accuracy gains from 34% to 50% on MedQAUSMLE for LLaMA2-70b and from 58.77% to 69.49% for LLaMA-3.1-8b, plus an 86.27% improvement in data distillation using only 3.9% of the data.
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Vision-Language and Large Language Model Performance in Gastroenterology: GPT, Claude, Llama, Phi, Mistral, Gemma, and Quantized Models
GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet reach 73.7-74% accuracy on gastroenterology questions; VLMs gain nothing from images and lose accuracy with LLM-generated captions.
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Precision or Peril: A PoC of Python Code Quality from Quantized Large Language Models
Smaller LLMs produce functional but limited Python code with variable quantization effects and quality/maintainability concerns that require validation before use.
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A Survey on Efficient Inference for Large Language Models
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