Support at least one quantized model loading path.
Serving cost and GPU memory pressure are central production constraints.
- int8, fp8, AWQ, GPTQ, or another practical first option
- memory benchmark
- latency benchmark
- compatibility notes
- implementing a quantization algorithm from scratch
- supporting every quantization format
- A quantized model can be loaded and served.
- Memory use is compared with the non-quantized baseline.
- Latency impact is measured.
- Choose the first quantization path.
- Add model loading option.
- Add compatibility checks.
- Add memory benchmark.
- Add latency benchmark.
- Document cost and quality tradeoffs.