Revolutionary AI Quantization: Qwen3.5-27B Achieves Near-Perfect Quality and Fits on 16GB Cards!
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This is fantastic news for local AI enthusiasts! A developer has created a new 3.5-bit weight format that allows the Qwen3.5-27B model to run with performance near the Q4_0 level while significantly reducing the model size. This opens up the possibility of running powerful Generative AI models on more accessible hardware.
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View Original"That is a gap of only +0.0139 PPL, about 0.19%, on the full wiki.test.raw pass (580 chunks, c=512)."