Graft and Go: How Knowledge Grafting Shrinks AI Without Shrinking Its Brain
If you’ve ever tried to run a powerful AI model on a modest device—say, a drone, a farm robot, or even a Raspberry Pi—you’ve likely hit the wall of hardware limitations. Today’s most accurate models are big, bloated, and brittle when it comes to efficiency. Enter knowledge grafting, a refreshingly biological metaphor for a novel compression technique that doesn’t just trim the fat—it transfers the muscle. Rethinking Compression: Not What to Cut, But What to Keep Traditional model optimization methods—quantization, pruning, and distillation—all try to make the best of a difficult trade-off: shrinking the model while limiting the damage to performance. These methods often fall short, especially when you push compression past 5–6x. ...