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ByteShape Qwen 3.8 27B: To KL Diverge or Not to KL Diverge, Part 2: Metric Boogaloo

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Hey r/LocalLLaMA , We’ve released our full ShapeLearn GGUFs for Qwen 3.8 27B. Blog / Download models TL;DR 3.84 bpw (GPU-5) reaches 99.63% of BF16’s aggregate score of 8 benchmarks, being the most accurate quant we’ve evaluated; 3.23 bpw (GPU-4) reaches 98.72%. These average BF16-normalized scores…

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  1. 2026-09-15 14:31 · r/LocalLLaMA
    ByteShape Qwen 3.8 27B: To KL Diverge or Not to KL Diverge, Part 2: Metric Boogaloo

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