How to pronounce SVDQuant

SVDQuant is most commonly pronounced "ess vee dee kwant" (/ˌɛsviːdiːˈkwɑːnt/). This is the widely-used reading among engineers, though edge cases exist.

4-bit post-training quantization for diffusion models that shunts weight+activation outliers into a low-rank branch. SVD = Singular Value Decomposition, read letter-by-letter then "quant": ess-vee-dee-KWANT.

Source: SVDQuant paper (arXiv 2411.05007)

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