Word
quantization
Phoneticsquan·ti·za·tion
Definition
n. A way to make an AI model smaller and faster by using less-precise numbers inside it.
n. A technique that reduces the numerical precision of a model's values to lower memory and computational requirements.
Examples
“Quantization can make an AI model cheaper to run.”
“The team applied quantization before deploying the model on a mobile device.”
Examples
simple
“Quantization can make an AI model cheaper to run.”
contextual
“The team applied quantization before deploying the model on a mobile device.”
Real-World Examples
“Quantization trades some precision for speed and memory; many production deployments use 8-bit or 4-bit variants when the quality drop is acceptable.” “And it offers different “quantizations” (basically, trading a little precision for a smaller size) that help it span Macs with different amounts of RAM.” “One of the most widely used techniques to make AI models more efficient, quantization, has limits — and the industry could be fast approaching them.” “To get around this, you can either split that model up across multiple chips - or even servers - or you can compress the model weights to a lower precision in a process called quantization.” Etymology
From quantize + -ation.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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