Which Quantization Should I Use? A Unified Evaluation of llama.cpp Quantization on Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct — mentioned by lambda

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:31:35 GMT

This isn't the paper that I was thinking of, but it shows a similar trend to the one I was looking at. In this particular case, even down to 5 bits showed no measurable reduction in performance (actually a slight increase, but that probably just means that you're withing the noise of what this test can distinguish), then you see performance dropping off rapidly as it gets down to 3 various 3 bit quants: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.14277 There was another paper that did a similar test, but with several models in a family, and all the way down to 1 bit, and it was only at 1 bit that it crossed…

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Which Quantization Should I Use? A Unified Evaluation of llama.cpp Quantization on Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct — mentioned by lambda