The Era of 1-bit LLMs: All Large Language Models are in 1.58 Bits
Every weight is −1, 0, or 1 — matching full precision while multiplication becomes addition.
Ma et al. · arXiv 2024 · Model Architectures. Read the paper ↗
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- What is The Era of 1-bit LLMs: All Large Language Models are in 1.58 Bits?
- Every weight is −1, 0, or 1 — matching full precision while multiplication becomes addition.
- Who published The Era of 1-bit LLMs: All Large Language Models are in 1.58 Bits, and where?
- Ma et al. — arXiv 2024 (arXiv:2402.17764).
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