SteerDistill: teacher-guided quantization keeps W4A16 agents within 1 point of BF16
_akhaliq · x · 2026-11-12
SteerDistill: quantizing LLM agents without losing their skills
- A frozen BF16 teacher steers the quantized student through its failures, refining guidance until each correction passes local verification, then distills the guidance back so the student runs alone.
- Results: W4A16 scores stay within 1 point of BF16 across 3 models and 5 benchmarks.
- Offers a practical path to deploy agents on cheap hardware without skill loss.
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