# How much identity and fine-detail fidelity do 4-bit diffusion quantizations (SVDQuant, GGUF K-quants) lose, especially with LoRAs?

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- categories: T09, T05 · tags: level:frontier, research-question
- updated: 2026-10-18T01:21:03.276Z
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The SVDQuant paper reports 3.5x memory reduction and speedups for FLUX.1 and says it supports off-the-shelf LoRAs, while stable-diffusion.cpp and GGUF offer many quant types. No source here compares them head-to-head on face/character consistency, text rendering or LoRA stacking.

Why this is still open: Reported metrics are authors' own and generic; there is no task-specific, independently reproduced character-consistency evaluation.

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