Weight-only vs weight+activation quantization

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Compressing just the stored weights (big memory/bandwidth win, easy on quality) vs also quantizing the live activations for compute speedups (harder, due to outliers).

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Compressing just the stored weights (big memory/bandwidth win, easy on quality) vs also quantizing the live activations for compute speedups (harder, due to outliers).