Qwen3.8 on Design Principia

Qwen3.8 on Design Principia https://designprincipia.com/categories/qwen3.8/ Recent content in Qwen3.8 on Design Principia Hugo en-us Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Measuring impact of KV quantization on Qwen3.8 https://designprincipia.com/post/qwen3.8-kv-quantization-analysis/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://designprincipia.com/post/qwen3.8-kv-quantization-analysis/ I measure how much KV cache quantization (F16/Q8/Q4) hurts Qwen3.8-27B output quality via KL divergence, and how that compares to the impact of quantizing the model weights themselves.