Hugging Face to Host 'Local AI 301' Livestream With 4 Talks on Quantization, llama.cpp and vLLM
huggingface · x · 2026-11-05
Hugging Face announced a livestream titled 'Local AI 301' for next Tuesday (Nov 10, 9AM PST / 6PM CET) on shrinking models to run locally on laptops, focusing on quantization with llama.cpp and vLLM.
The four talks:
- Introduction to Quantization — Merve Noyan (Hugging Face)
- Calibration-based quantization — Colin Kealty (aka bartowski, RedHat)
- Quantization-Aware Distillation — Maxime Labonne & Aditya Tadimeti (LiquidAI)
- Fast Microscaling Formats on Any GPU with vLLM — Michael (Misha) Goin, vLLM lead maintainer (RedHat)
Streaming live on X and YouTube with a live Q&A.
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