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Unweight: Lossless MLP Weight Compression for LLM Inference
Unweight is a lossless compression system for LLM weight tensors achieving 1.44x compression on BF16 MLP weights with GPU-native decompression for inference on NVIDIA Hopper GPUs (H100, H200).
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