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Mike Young @mikeyoung44

New AI Compression Method Boosts Language Model Efficiency

RSQ: a novel approach to efficient LLM quantization, focusing on important tokens & achieving better model performance than standard techniques.

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RSQ is a novel approach to more efficient LLM quantization
Focuses on the most important tokens in the training data
Achieves better model performance than standard techniques
Introduces a token importance scoring mechanism
Works with both 4-bit and 8-bit quantization
Demonstrated across multiple popular language models...