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Has anyone tested the quantization quality (AWQ/GPTQ/FP8/NVFP4) for Qwen3.5 9B &

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27 Mar
Google TurboQuant blew up for KV cache. Here’s TurboQuant-v3 for the actual weights you load first. Runs on consumer GPUs today.

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1s5cggh/google_turboquant_blew_up_for_kv_cache_heres/"> <img alt="Google TurboQuant blew up for KV cache.

OPINION · WHEN · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
24 Mar
Delta-KV for llama.cpp: near-lossless 4-bit KV cache on Llama 70B

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I applied video compression to LLM inference and got <strong>10,000x less quantization error at the same storage cost</strong></p> <p><a

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
15 Apr
at what point does quantization stop being a tradeoff and start being actual quality loss

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Been running a few models locally at different quant levels and honestly the jump from Q5 to Q4 sometimes feels like nothing and other times it

OPINION · WHERE · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
25 Mar
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B reaches 20 t/s TG and 700t/s PP with a 5090

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I could not find good data points on what speed one could get with a single 5090 and enough DDR4 RAM. </p> <p>My system: AMD EPYC 7532 32core

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
26 Apr
Qwen3.5/3.6 Coder?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>With practically all of LocalLlama glazing Qwen 3.5/3.6 for it's coding skills. Along with the fact that Alibaba themselves are focusing on

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
26 Mar
INT8 vs FP8 quantization

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>What's the difference between FP8 or INT8 ? For nvidia you would go FP8 but on ampere you would rely on INT8. On the other side new intel gpu

OPINION · WHO · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
30 Mar
Qwen3.5 Omni - Qwen’s latest generation of fully omnimodal LLM

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1s7rcwr/qwen35_omni_qwens_latest_generation_of_fully/"> <img alt="Qwen3.5 Omni - Qwen’s latest generation

OPINION · WHAT · singularityOPEN STORY
11 May
Why is my Qwen3.6-35B-A3B so much dumber than Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I'm genuinely unsure if I'm doing something wrong, or if the model is just worse, despite the community enthusiasm. I tend to use it with pi

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