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Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs
Arxiv.org·September 16, 2026·1 min read
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Ternary Large Language Models (LLM) store every weight as one of three symbols $\{-1,0,+1\}$, so the cost of a ternary model is conventionally referenced to the information-theoretic $\log_2 3 \approx 1. 585$ bits per weight.
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Ternary Large Language Models (LLM) store every weight as one of three symbols $\{-1,0,+1\}$, so the cost of a ternary model is conventionally referenced to the information-theoretic $\log_2 3 \approx 1.585$ bits per weight. The prevailing deployment format p…
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