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Activation-aware Weight Quantization
AWQ (Activation-aware Weight Quantization) quantizes LLM weights based on activation statistics, preserving the most important weights for model performance.
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- Not classified
- Difficulty
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- Aliases
- None tracked
- Last reviewed
- 2026-07-02
Key facts
- It achieves higher accuracy than uniform quantization at lower bit-widths by adapting quantization granularity to activation patterns.