Engineer's Reminder: Serve Models at Their Original Training Precision
andrew_n_carr · x · 2026-08-03
A developer advises the community to serve DeepSeek models at the same precision they were trained in. Users are warned against falling for the 'half-bit quant dream' to avoid degrading model performance.
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