Quantized reasoning models produce longer chains of thought, inflating token usage and negating per-token speedups from low-bit quantization across multiple benchmarks.
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Quantization Inflates Reasoning: Token Inflation as a Hidden Cost of Low-Bit Reasoning Models
Quantized reasoning models produce longer chains of thought, inflating token usage and negating per-token speedups from low-bit quantization across multiple benchmarks.