qat
4 stories and discussions about qat, aggregated from every source we track.
Step-by-step: running Google's quantization-aware-trained Gemma 4 E2B on a 10th-gen Core i7 laptop with a 4 GB GTX 1650 Ti — why bf16 and int8 cannot fit, why the QAT GGUF does with room to spare, and managing it with an MCP server.
A short background on SageMaker real-time endpoints, then a measured comparison of Gemma 4 E2B's QAT w4a16 checkpoint against the full-size bf16 release on the same NVIDIA L4 endpoint: decode speed, parallel throughput, answers and cost.
A step by step deployment of Gemma 4 E2B with vLLM on a single Tesla T4 attached to a Compute Engine VM, and a measured comparison of the QAT w4a16 checkpoint against the bf16 reference on the same card.
A short background on SageMaker real-time endpoints, then a measured comparison of Gemma 4 E2B's QAT w4a16 checkpoint against the full-size bf16 release on the same NVIDIA L4 endpoint: decode speed, parallel throughput, answers and cost.