KLD is misunderstood: it measures how different probability distributions of base and quantized models are across tokens, not a universal quality metric
Read the original at www.reddit.com→I see a lot of people here on Reddit treating the KLD number as some holy metric that can distinguish every quantized model out there and rank them by quality. TL;DR: It can't. So what does KLD actually measure? If...
Original headline: "KLD is misunderstood"
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- Oct 24, 20:12 UTC r/LocalLLaMA lead source KLD is misunderstood