Learn/Core Concept How does model compression preserve performance? Model compression reduces neural network size while maintaining accuracy through techniques like pruning, quantisation, and knowledge distillation. These methods remove redundant parameters or represent them more efficiently, crucial for deploying large models on constrained hardware. Compression enables running sophisticated AI locally on consumer devices without cloud dependencies. The Qwopus3.5-9B vision model demonstrates this perfectly, delivering multimodal capabilities in GGUF format that fits on standard laptops whilst maintaining competitive performance. QuantisationPruningDistillation |