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chat: Add Q8_0 quantization type #2919

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@vsrinivas vsrinivas commented Aug 28, 2024

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Add support for Q8_0 quantization type.

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ThiloteE commented Sep 10, 2024

Have you tested all the supported backends with a supported model, such as llama-3-8b-instruct? Providing screenshots of a model that works with your PR would be good.

By the way, why only Q8 and not other quants, such as Q6_K, which is very close to Q8 in terms of perplexity, but much smaller in terms of GB?

Could you outline your rationale for this change too? What do you think will be the impact of this change on the userbase and on maintaining GPT4All?

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This can't go in until all of our backends support this quant type. It would also need to be signed. But again, this really needs much more since the current vulkan backend does not support this quant.

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