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Wouldn’t it be 1GB (billion bytes) per billion parameters when each parameter is 1 byte (FP8)? Seems like 4 bit quantized models would use 1/2 the number of bi
by bionhoward 1y ago
Wouldn’t it be 1GB (billion bytes) per billion parameters when each parameter is 1 byte (FP8)?
Seems like 4 bit quantized models would use 1/2 the number of billions of parameters in bytes, because each parameter is half a byte, right?
- daemonologist 1y agoYes, it's more a rule of thumb than napkin math I suppose. The difference allows space for the KV cache which scales with both model size and context length, plus other bits and bobs like multimodal encoders which aren't always counted into the nameplate model size.