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I wish each quant was benchmarked on the same tests as the original network so we could compare their performance
Unsloth publishes KL divergence numbers which measures how much the quantised probability distribution changes vs unquantised: https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.8#quantization-analysis

It's a bit bare at the moment, I assume they are going to add further detail later (eg comparison to other quants), similar to their other releases.

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KL divergence is nothing close to a replacement for benchmarks. As flawed as benchmarks are, KL divergence is a barely useful signal. The fact that Unsloth only just started publishing KL divergences shows how unserious the quantization space is.
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That's not a replacement for benchmarks
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