#post-training quantization
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NVIDIA Model Optimizer Post-Training Quantization (PTQ) Practical Guide
A deep dive into NVIDIA Model Optimizer's PTQ workflow, covering INT8/INT4 quantization principles, calibration methods, RTX GPU optimization, and best practices for deploying quantized LLMs on consumer GPUs.
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Homebench: A Comprehensive Benchmarking Tool for Local LLMs Across Speed, Memory, and Quality
Homebench is an open-source local LLM benchmarking tool that evaluates models across speed, memory, and quality dimensions, helping developers make optimal model selection and quantization decisions.
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Unsloth Teams Up with Thinking Machines: Dynamic 1-bit Quantization Achieves 86% Compression, Running Multimodal LLMs in 270GB
Unsloth and Thinking Machines release dynamic 1-bit GGUF quantization for Inkling, compressing the model from 1.9TB to 270GB (86% reduction) while retaining 74.2% accuracy and adding vision/audio multimodal support.
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Running a Local AI Voice Assistant on a $50 Arduino Board: A Practical Guide to Edge AI
How to run a fully local AI voice agent on a $50 Arduino Uno Q board, covering speech recognition, intent understanding, and TTS implementation for edge AI applications.
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Maple-Preview: 20B Ternary MoE Model Achieves 120 tok/s On-Device Inference on iPhone
Maple-Preview achieves 120 tok/s inference of a 20B ternary MoE model on iPhone. We analyze ternary quantization, MoE sparse activation, and on-device inference challenges.
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LLM Post-Training on an 8GB GPU: A Practical Guide to SFT, DPO, and GRPO
Learn how to complete LLM post-training on a consumer GPU with just 8GB VRAM, covering SFT, DPO, and GRPO methods using LoRA quantization and other techniques.
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Qwen Scribe: A Deep Dive into the Local Speech Transcription Tool for Apple Silicon
Qwen Scribe is a local speech transcription tool optimized for Apple Silicon, running fully offline with Qwen models. Explore its technical features, privacy benefits, and comparison with Whisper.
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Qwen Scribe: A Deep Dive into the Local Speech Transcription Tool for Apple Silicon
Qwen Scribe is a local speech transcription tool optimized for Apple Silicon, powered by Qwen models for fully offline use. Explore its technical features, privacy benefits, and comparison with Whisper.
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Laguna S 2.1 Deep Dive: Hands-On Local Deployment of a 118B Parameter Coding Model
In-depth review of Poolside's Laguna S 2.1 open-source coding model: MoE architecture, RL training, DGX Spark local deployment, and real-world agentic coding tests with 8B active parameters.
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Kimi K3 Deep Dive: 2.8 Trillion Parameter Open-Source Model Closes the Gap with Closed-Source Frontier for the First Time
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 open-weight model with 2.8T parameters and 1M token context. Our deep dive covers coding, 3D dev, agent capabilities, and safety concerns.
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Gemini 3.6 Flash Leaked: The Flash Series Moves Toward Frontier Territory
Reddit leaks Gemini 3.6 Flash model. The word 'frontier' suggests Google DeepMind is bringing cutting-edge capabilities to the lightweight Flash branch.
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Laguna S 2.1: The Open-Source Coding Model That's 14x Smaller Yet Stronger
Poolside releases Laguna S 2.1, an open-source agentic coding model: 118B total params with only 8B active, scoring 40.4% on DeepSWE — ~4.5x DeepSeek V4 Pro Max. Supports 1M-token context, deployable on a single workstation.
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AI Application Engineer Interview Guide: Core Topics in Model Quantization and Inference Deployment
A systematic review of must-know topics for AI Application Engineer interviews: PTQ/QAT quantization, operator fusion, inference pipelines, latency/throughput analysis, and edge deployment of detection/segmentation/BEV models.
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AI Application Engineer Interview Guide: Core Topics on Model Quantization and Inference Deployment
A systematic guide to must-know AI application engineer interview topics: PTQ/QAT quantization, operator fusion, inference pipelines, latency/throughput analysis, and edge deployment of detection/segmentation/BEV models.
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Running a 27B Model on iPhone: How 1-bit Quantization Achieves Extreme Compression
PrismML's Bonsai compresses a 27B model from 54GB to 3.9GB, running at ~11 tokens/sec on iPhone. A deep dive into QAT, knowledge distillation, and speculative decoding.
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Bonsai 27B: The First 1-bit LLM That R…
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Bonsai 27B: The First 1-bit LLM That Runs on Your Phone — A New Milestone for On-Device AI
Bonsai 27B is the first 27B-parameter LLM that runs on smartphones via 1-bit quantization, compressing to 3–4GB. We break down the tech, privacy benefits, and community debate.
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Apple in Talks to Acquire PrismML: Can Extreme Quantization Really Run AI on an iPhone?
Apple is reportedly in talks to acquire AI startup PrismML, whose 1-bit extreme quantization could run large models on iPhone. Community tests reveal tool-calling failures and high hallucination rates.
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The Complete LLM Learning Roadmap: From Beginner to Expert — Courses and Resources Recommended
Confused by scattered LLM resources and unclear learning paths? This guide maps a complete roadmap from basics to advanced, covering Karpathy, Stanford CS224N, DeepLearning.AI, Hugging Face, plus RAG, fine-tuning, and Agent deep dives.
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Distributed AI Systems: A Practical Engineering Guide to Training, Inference, and Production Deployment
A deep dive into distributed AI systems engineering: data/model/tensor parallelism for training, KV cache, quantization, elastic scaling for inference, and cloud deployment with Kubernetes, Ray, and DeepSpeed.
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VersatIL: A Modular PyTorch Framework Tackling Code Fragmentation in Imitation Learning
VersatIL is a modular PyTorch framework for robot imitation learning that decouples data, network architecture, algorithm, and objective. Supports ACT, Diffusion Policy, pi0, and LeRobot format.
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