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AQLM / QuIP# (2-bit codebook)

QuantizationReference

Codebook / vector quantization pushing weights toward ~2 bits.

Relieves
Capacity
Targets
Weights
Format
2-bit vector / codebook
Granularity
Vector quantization
Lifecycle
PTQ · no gradients
Calibration
Full corpus
Compression
~8× (2-bit)
Quality
Usable at 2-bit; below 4-bit methods
Hardware
Custom codebook decode kernels
Runtimes
vLLMTransformers

A worked Spark recipe for this method hasn't been written yet — it lives here as a reference point in the ontology.