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Optimal 1.25 bit quantization of Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

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Hello! I was looking into quantizing models and i saw how Hy4 was shrunk from 1.5 TB to 200GB with high retention in benchmarks (98% i think). I was wondering if: a) it would be worth it to attempt this method (since they had papers detailing it) for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next b) it would be worth my time…

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  1. 2026-08-31 01:29 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Optimal 1.25 bit quantization of Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

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