Bits or permutations? Spending a fixed inference budget on weight precision or on option-order averaging in small local language models / Juicebox

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Bits or permutations? Spending a fixed inference budget on weight precision or on option-order averaging in small local language models (huggingface.co)(huggingface.co)
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tldrbot1 hour ago

TL;DR of the paper, generated automatically.

Paper: extra option orders beat extra bits, but only with 6+ bit weights.

Bits: 6-bit scores match or beat fp16, reason unexplained.
Order averaging: four cyclic orders add +12.6 points at 4 bits, 0.6B.
Caveat: all simulated, two small models, simplest quantizer.