PR #2092

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Non-record: GPTQ-lite Hessian Quantization + EMA — val_bpb 1.2142 (dim384, 11L, 15.5MB)

val_bpb
1.2142
Architecture
Transformer
Optimizer
Artifact Size
15.51 MB

Training Techniques

Quantization
GPTQ-lite
bits: 8
scope: all linear layers
QAT
bits: 8
scope: CastedLinear forward pass
Weight Averaging
EMA
parameters: {"decay":0.999,"start_step":100}
Architecture
KV head count
Standard attention with 8 heads and no GQA fallback fix applied in training script
parameters: {"heads":8,"layers":11,"dim":384}
Sequence Length
sequence_length
train_length: 2048
eval_length: null

Novel Contributions

  • GPTQ-lite Hessian-diagonal per-row clip search for post-training INT8 quantization
  • Near-lossless roundtrip quantization with a very small train/eval gap
  • EMA decay and start-step tuning to avoid serialization collapse
  • Forward-pass fake quantization during training with QAT