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Iwan Kawrakow

Author of llama.cpp's k-quants and SOTA low-bit quantization

EngineeringmacOS
The work

What we are celebrating, specifically.

  • k-quants (llama.cpp PR 1684)
  • IQ2 and i-quants
  • ik_llama.cpp

Independent

Quantization researcher · current

Why

Why we celebrate them.

Iwan invented the k-quant family that nearly every GGUF model on every Mac uses, then pushed on to state-of-the-art 2-bit quants with the perplexity tables to prove them. His rigor is why a 70B model fits in a MacBook's memory without falling apart.

Sources — their own pages, so you can check us

  • k-quants PR
  • ik_llama.cpp
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