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		boppo1 on Aug 30, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 1 week of Stable Diffusion What does 'quantized' mean in this context?

acapybara on Aug 30, 2022 [–]

Basically stuff a 32 bit value into an 8 bit value (and lose precision).

Apparently it doesn't affect the results significantly.

More info:

https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/17901

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