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QATFactory: Framework for Quantization-aware Training and Distillation of LLMs

QATFactory is an open-source framework designed for deployment-aligned quantization-aware distillation and reinforcement learning to improve low-precision LLM inference. It simulates deployment-time quantization to maintain model quality despite aggressive quantization.

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-09-30T08:00:35+00:00 Detected 2026-10-01T05:21:24+00:00
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QATFactory is an open-source framework designed for deployment-aligned quantization-aware distillation and reinforcement learning to improve low-precision LLM inference. It simulates deployment-time quantization to maintain model quality despite aggressive quantization.

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Large language model (LLM) inference is increasingly moving toward lower precision to realize the throughput of hardware accelerators, but aggressive post-training quantization (PTQ) can degrade model quality. We present QATFactory, an open-source framework for deployment-aligned quantization-aware distillation...

Lower precision inference enables higher throughput on hardware accelerators but can degrade model quality; QATFactory addresses this by aligning training with deployment quantization. This helps balance performance and accuracy in LLM deployment.

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