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explainit2metoday at 2:09 AM1 replyview on HN

So this compression is only pertinent to the LLM file format? In memory it'd have to be expanded into the 1.58-bit form - 5 trits per byte.


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pieter3dtoday at 3:01 AM

It also means you can read them faster, more parameters per second during an inference which tends to be memory bandwidth limited on most systems. Thus faster inferences