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		WiSaGaN on Feb 29, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost... Could the reason that 3 states in this case be more efficient than 2 states be that 3 is closer to 2.718... (Euler's number) than 2 is?

altruios on Feb 29, 2024 [–]

Why not have some layers/nodes/systems be 2 states and have others be 3... couldn't you get arbitrarily close to Euler's number that way?

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