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New release: Two smaller Qwen3.8 27B SLQ models!

New release: Two smaller Qwen3.8 27B SLQ models! - A new one targeting EAR 98 - And another one (EAR 97.8) just aiming…

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New release: Two smaller Qwen3.8 27B SLQ models! - A new one targeting EAR 98 - And another one (EAR 97.8) just aiming to beat the official FP8 while being ~10 GB smaller. This time, I searched with smaller group sizes, especially for INT2/INT3, but none were selected. Smaller groups at higher precision are more useful here. GPTQ just isn't good enough at very low precision. I'll try smarter (and more expensive...) quantization for Qwen4. These models using smaller groups could also be slightly slower than previous versions. I didn't check. I think we're close to the limit of what GPTQ ca

Posted by Benjamin Marie (7.5k followers) 17 h ago · 93 likes · 5.2k views · view the original post on X. Kept by the Dev Radar as AI dev tools. Tools mentioned: kaitchup.

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