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PCST: A Systematic Study of Extreme Low-Bit LLaMA-7B Compression Without Retraining

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What Works, What Fails, and Why Local Weight Error Poorly Predicts Model Quality Project: PCST — Product Code Structured Transform This article deliberately reports both positive and negative results. It does not claim that PCST outperforms modern standard quantization. Its purpose is to document a…

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  1. 2026-09-04 14:52 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    PCST: A Systematic Study of Extreme Low-Bit LLaMA-7B Compression Without Retraining

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