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QUANTIZATION · 04ONE CHANNEL26× A TYPICAL ONEQ_PROJ INPUT, LAYER 10, QWEN3-8B
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Post-Training Quantization: Rounding, Calibration, and the Outlier Problem

Why rounding each weight to the nearest value is not enough, what calibration data is for, and the two kinds of outliers in a real model's activations, measured on Qwen3-8B.

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