Equation 3 · The Hardest Unsolved Problems in Small and On-Device AI
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Formally, if a model is evaluated on T tasks with full-precision accuracy and quantized accuracy on task t , a benchmark table typically reports the mean regression
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- [2] A Case Study of Selected PTQ Baselines for Reasoning LLMs on Ascend NPU ↗
- [3] Can Compressed LLMs Truly Act? An Empirical Evaluation of Agentic Capabilities in LLM Compression ↗
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