8-1 Optimization-Model-Quantization-Making-Big-Models-Fit-Real-Hardware Hands-On

Welcome to Module 8. This is the deployment module — the one where everything we have built over the last seven modules finally goes into production. And we are going to start with the single most important thing you can do to your model before you ship it, which is shrink it. The model you trained, with all of its 70 billion parameters in glorious 16-bit precision, is almost never the model you actually serve. The model you serve is smaller, faster, and cheaper to run, and it gets that way through optimization. So today we are going to learn how to take a giant model and compress it without breaking it, and we are going to focus most of our time on the technique that does most of the work — quantization.