Why Gated DeltaNet Survives 4-Bit Quantization: NVFP4 W4A4 for the Recurrent Half of a Hybrid 27B LLM · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2609.04098/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTWhy Gated DeltaNet Survives 4-Bit Quantization: NVFP4 W4A4 for the Recurrent Half of a Hybrid 27B LLM — mentioned by skoloshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49615483urn:hackerpapers:mention:2609.04098:49615483Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:22:10 GMT<p>There was a study specifically related to Qwen3.8 27B that showed that kv cache quantization has almost no impact on this model all the way to q4: https://arxiv.org/html/2609.04098</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2609.04098/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.AI