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Quantizing 70b models to 4-bit, how much does performance degrade? (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by ae_dataviz@alien.top to c/localllama@poweruser.forum
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The title, pretty much.

I'm wondering whether a 70b model quantized to 4bit would perform better than a 7b/13b/34b model at fp16. Would be great to get some insights from the community.

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[–] Ion_GPT@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Depending on the task. For anything related to multilingual, like translating, the quant will destroy the model. I suspect that this is because the sampling data used during the process is all English.