How to pronounce bitsandbytes

bitsandbytes is most commonly pronounced "bits and bytes" (/ˌbɪts.ən.ˈbaɪts/). This is the widely-used reading among engineers, though edge cases exist.

k-bit quantization library for PyTorch underpinning 8-bit optimizers, LLM.int8() and 4-bit/NF4 QLoRA. Written as one lowercase token but spoken as three words: BITS-and-BYTES — STRESS on first and last, middle 'and' reduced to schwa. The spelling is the pronunciation; only the concatenation obscures the word boundaries.

Source: bitsandbytes GitHub (bitsandbytes-foundation)

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