Steven Gonsalvez

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Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is

Why CEREBRO kept it

Analysis of why local LLMs underperform.

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Quick Introduction We have all been on forums, chats, reddit, discord, youtube, or somewhere and heard “Oh! Model XYZ is AMAZEBALLZ!zomgwtfbbq” then downloaded it (or more likely, some quantized form of it) and said “eww… This sucks!” This post is going to be a rather technical series of experiments to demonstrate the impact of implementation-specific hazards with inference. I will be using the term “reference implementation” to describe the lab that published and offers first-party hosting of their models and posts original benchmark claims. Their hardware will be different than yours. Their

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Silent GGUF metadata loss breaks chat templates and causes perceived dumbness, not quantization.

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