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Why Gated DeltaNet Survives 4-Bit Quantization: NVFP4 W4A4 for the Recurrent Half of a Hybrid 27B LLM
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
In 30 seconds
- What happened
- Researchers quantized all 496 linear layers of a 27B hybrid LLM to 4-bit using NVFP4, including recurrent GDN layers, matching full-precision performance.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers deploying large language models who need smaller memory footprint and faster inference without accuracy loss.
- Watch out
- Results specific to hybrid attention-recurrent architecture; generalization to pure transformer models or other quantization schemes unclear.
- llm
- long context
- quantiz
- attention
- qwen
The patterns behind this
- Agentic Context Engineering (Evolving Playbook)
- Latent Recurrent Thinking
- Hybrid Secret & Cache Management Pattern
Each one covers how the technique works, when it earns its cost, and where it breaks.
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