How to pronounce exl2

exl2 is most commonly pronounced "ee eks el too" (/ˌiː ɛks ɛl ˈtuː/). This is the widely-used reading among engineers, though edge cases exist.

Mixed-bitrate quantization format native to the ExLlamaV2 (turboderp) local-LLM inference library; the name is a contraction of ExLlamaV2 (EX-L + 2). Spelled out letter-by-letter "E-X-L-TWO" in local-LLM communities, not read as "excel-two". STRESS on TWO. File extension/suffix seen as .exl2 on Hugging Face quants.

Source: turboderp-org/exllamav2 (GitHub README)

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