Flat Score, Amplified Failures: How the Error Budget Masks Damage in Quantized LLM Agents
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arXiv:2607.27275v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training quantization to 4-bit weights is widely reported to be nearly lossless. We test this claim for multi-turn, tool-calling agents, where it now matters most. On $\tau^2$-bench, across two open-weight model families in dense and MoE variants and two domains (eight cells, 456 episodes each, at 16-, 8-, and 4-bit weights), quantization indeed looks free on the standard metric. No cell shows a score change that survives multiple-comparison…
1Key Takeaways
- arXiv:2607.27275v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training quantization to 4-bit weights is widely reported to be nearly lossless.
- We test this claim for multi-turn, tool-calling agents, where it now matters most.
- On $\tau^2$-bench, across two open-weight model families in dense and MoE variants and two domains (eight cells, 456 episodes each, at 16-, 8-, and 4-bit weights), quantization indeed looks free on the standard metric.
- No cell shows a score change that survives multiple-comparison….
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