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Quantizing a 16-bit model's weights to 8-bit integers does what to the memory needed for inference?

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  1. Doubles it
  2. Cuts it about in half
  3. Leaves it unchanged

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References

  1. Dettmers et al., LLM.int8(): 8-bit Matrix Multiplication for Transformers at Scale (arXiv 2208.07339) arxiv.org/abs/2208.07339 Checked 2026-10-10.

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