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Glossary

What is quantization?

Quantization shrinks a model by storing its weights at lower numeric precision — for example 4-bit instead of 16-bit — cutting memory and speeding inference with a small quality trade-off.

Quantization is what lets large open models run on modest hardware. By representing weights with fewer bits, a model that needed a server can fit on a consumer GPU or a laptop. Formats like GGUF, GPTQ, and AWQ package quantized weights for different runtimes.

The trade-off is size and speed versus accuracy: aggressive quantization saves the most memory but can degrade quality, so runtimes offer several levels. It is a core enabling technique for the local-LLM ecosystem.

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quantization — FAQ

What is quantization?
Quantization shrinks a model by storing its weights at lower numeric precision — for example 4-bit instead of 16-bit — cutting memory and speeding inference with a small quality trade-off. Quantization is what lets large open models run on modest hardware. By representing weights with fewer bits, a model that needed a server can fit on a consumer GPU or a laptop. Formats like GGUF, GPTQ, and AWQ package quantized weights for different runtimes.