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Measure quantization drift with llama.cpp perplexity and KL divergence
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What this guide covers
For people comparing a quantized GGUF model against its full-precision parent. You end with a plan for reading perplexity, KL divergence and top-choice agreement on Wikitext-2. It is based on the llama.cpp README and script and was not run.
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Guide title
Measure quantization drift with llama.cpp perplexity and KL divergence
Coverage
For people comparing a quantized GGUF model against its full-precision parent. You end with a plan for reading perplexity, KL divergence and top-choice agreement on Wikitext-2. It is based on the llama.cpp README and script and was not run.
Example
A not-run comparison of a Q4_K_M file against its F16 parent, with the README's LLaMA 3 8b scoreboard figures quoted only as a sense of scale.
Useful starting points
- The full-precision logit file is very large (the README gives 37 GiB for LLaMA 3 on Wikitext-2), so check free disk before the first run.
- Perplexity is not comparable across tokenizers or with other projects' numbers, so compare only runs from the same setup.
- Check the reported uncertainty before reading anything into a small perplexity gap between two models.
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