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How to pack ternary numbers in 8-bit bytes

Hacker News Top · 2026-07-14 Cached

A blog post describing an efficient method to pack ternary numbers into 8-bit bytes using SIMD-friendly unpacking, achieving 1.6 bits per trit, with applications in LLM weight quantization like BitNet b1.58.

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