GGUF vs Safetensors vs GPTQ: Local Model File Formats Explained
GGUF, Safetensors and GPTQ are not three versions of the same thing. GGUF and Safetensors are container formats, while GPTQ is a quantisation method whose weights are…
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2 published articlesWhat Quantization Changes in a Language Model (and What It Leaves Alone)
Quantization rewrites a model's weights in lower precision while leaving its architecture, tokenizer, and parameter count intact. The memory savings are predictable; the quality cost is not,…