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Combining model compression techniques can collapse small language models
Compression Technique Interactions in Small Language Models: A Factorial Ablation Study
A systematic study of 72 compression configurations shows that INT8 quantization is lossless, while NF4 with pruning causes total failure, and LoRA fine-tuning recovers most quality without a teacher model.
WikiText-2: 920.56 perplexity (as reported)
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