Liquid AI's QAD Delivers 4-bit Models Retaining 97% Performance

Liquid AI released Quantization-Aware Distillation (QAD) 4-bit checkpoints for its LFM2.5 models, retaining 97% of performance while cutting memory usage by 70% and boosting inference speed from 21 to 64 tok/s.

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