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Bits or permutations? Spending a fixed inference budget on weight precision or on option-order averaging in small local language models
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 1 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers compared spending inference budget on lower-weight precision versus running multiple answer-option orderings in small language models on multiple-choice tasks.
- Why it matters
- Engineers optimizing small local language models for edge deployment need to allocate fixed computational budgets between quantization and inference passes.
- Watch out
- Study tested only two small models with basic quantization; results may not generalize to larger models, different quantizers, or other task types.
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