New Muse-Glimmer-30B SoTA Quants - hopefully a new lineup :)
Summary
The author releases new SoTA quantizations of the Muse-Glimmer-30B model, claiming they outperform existing quants across VRAM classes with novel techniques, including a Q8 quant that is smaller and closer to BF16. They share methodology on HuggingFace and discuss future write-ups.
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