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KLD is misunderstood

I see a lot of people here on Reddit treating the KLD number as some holy metric that can distinguish every quantized model out there and rank them by quality. TL;DR: It can't. So what does KLD actually measure? If you feed the same text to both the base model and the quantized model, you can compa…

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  1. 2026-10-24 20:12 · r/LocalLLaMA
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