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Rotate Less, Quantize Better: OptRot and the Geometry of LLM Compression

Packing is easy until one object is much larger than everything else. A warehouse can fit hundreds of ordinary boxes onto neatly spaced shelves. Add one grand piano, however, and the spacing plan becomes rather less elegant. Either the piano does not fit, or every shelf is redesigned around an object that appears once. ...

January 3, 2026 · 16 min · Zelina