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Jul 05, 2026 quantization / inference / llm

GPTQ: One-Shot 3–4 Bit Quantization as Approximate Second-Order Optimization

Elias Frantar et al., 2022 — ICLR 2023

GPTQ quantizes a 175B model to 3–4 bits in a few GPU-hours by turning layer-wise quantization into a sequence of cheap Hessian-guided weight updates — and by noticing that the expensive part of the classic algorithm was never necessary.

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