Quantizing LLMs - How & Why (8-Bit, 4-Bit, GGUF & More)

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Quantizing models for maximum efficiency gains! Resources: Model Quantized: https://huggingface.co/AdamLucek/Orpo-Llama-3.2-1B-15k Quantization Colab Notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1NlHlHU-fdubXcuZ08eb7zpaidF7388r6?usp=sharing HF 8-bit Blog: https://huggingface.co/blog/hf-bitsandbytes-integration HF 4-Bit Blog: https://huggingface.co/blog/4bit-transformers-bitsandbytes GGUF Overview: https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/gguf Llama.cpp: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/tree/master GGUF Model Made in Video: https://huggingface.co/AdamLucek/Orpo-Llama-3.2-1B-15k-Q4_K_M-GGUF Maxime Labonne Quantization Blog: https://mlabonne.github.io/blog/posts/Introduction_to_Weight_Quantization.html Chapters: 00:00 - What Is Quantization? 02:19 - How Are Weights Stored? 03:22 - What is Binary? 06:26 - What are Floating Point Numbers? 10:38 - What Data Types are Used for LLMs? 12:02 - Does Quantization Negatively Affect LLMs? 15:08 - Code: Quantizing with BitsAndBytes 17:34 - Code: Comparing Quantized Layers 18:36 - Code: Comparing Text Generation 21:57 - Code: GGUF Quantization Overview 23:41 - Code: Quantizing with Llama.cpp 25:44 - Final Thoughts on Quantization #ai #coding #deeplearning