Liquid AI's QAD Checkpoints Recover 97% of the Accuracy Lost to Q4_0 Quantization
Liquid AI released LFM2.5 Q4_0 GGUFs trained via quantization-aware distillation instead of post-training quantization. QAD recovers roughly 97% of the accuracy PTQ loses to quantization while keeping the same small footprint, and it even matches Q5_K_M quality at 4 to 33 percent higher edge decode throughput.