GPT-Sol's Chinese output bleed isn't heavy quantization—it's language confusion, researcher says
AryHHAry · x · 2026-09-25
A viral screenshot claimed GPT-Sol's mid-sentence Chinese characters prove "heavy quantization = garbage." AryHHAry pushes back: the screenshot is real but the diagnosis is wrong. The behavior matches known language confusion (Marchisio et al., EMNLP 2024). While quantization does degrade non-Latin scripts first (16% human eval drop vs 1.7% auto-metric drop), the same Chinese/Russian bleed can also stem from sampler float rounding—Mirai Labs traced an identical case to the sampler, not the weights—or from calibration set and temperature. Cheaper inference doesn't prove a bit-width issue: symptom ≠ mechanism.
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