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int_19h
on Feb 28, 2024
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The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost...
People haven't built
reliable
ternary electronics, though. Soviets tried with Setun, but they eventually had to resort to emulating each trit with two hardware bits (and wasting one state out of the possible four).
eru
on Feb 29, 2024
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If you are are using two bits anyway, you might as well represent (-2, -1, 0, 1) instead of ternary?
int_19h
on Feb 29, 2024
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Sure, but then you lose the symmetry that makes trits so convenient for many things.
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