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Improve Qwen3.8-27b low quants by using a prefiller model that streams from SSD

This demo from ISTA-DASLab recovers low quant accuracy while retaining low VRAM usage and fast decoding. It needs a Nvidia Blackwell GPU to run, so I have not tested it. For context longer than ~4k there should be no speed penalty compare to running without the prefiller model. Graph shows MMLU-Pro…

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  1. 2026-10-20 10:09 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Improve Qwen3.8-27b low quants by using a prefiller model that streams from SSD

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