Watch: the best quantization explainers
24 hand-picked videos from educators and engineering teams, grouped by field. Each one loads only when you press play, so the page stays fast.
Optimize your AI: quantization explained
A friendly walkthrough of why quantized models run on ordinary hardware and what the Q-numbers mean.
Matt Williams · Watch on YouTubeQuantization explained with PyTorch: PTQ and QAT
Long-form lecture that builds symmetric and asymmetric quantization from scratch, then shows post-training quantization and quantization-aware training.
Umar Jamil · Watch on YouTubeHow LLMs survive in low precision
Number formats and quantization fundamentals for large language models, with clear visuals.
Julia Turc · Watch on YouTubeDeep dive: quantizing large language models, part 1
Survey of the main LLM quantization techniques and the trade-offs between them.
Julien Simon · Watch on YouTubeDeep dive: quantizing large language models, part 2
Continues with hands-on examples of popular quantization methods.
Julien Simon · Watch on YouTubeEfficientML.ai lecture 5: quantization (part I)
University lecture from MIT 6.5940 covering numeric data types and linear quantization.
MIT HAN Lab · Watch on YouTubeUnderstanding 4-bit quantization: QLoRA explained
How 4-bit NormalFloat and double quantization make fine-tuning possible on a single GPU.
Discover AI · Watch on YouTubeLLM quantization explained: INT4, INT8, FP8 and NVFP4
Compares integer and low-precision floating-point formats used for modern inference.
Watch on YouTubeDeep dive on PyTorch quantization
Conference talk on eager-mode quantization workflows in PyTorch.
PyTorch · Watch on YouTubeInside TensorFlow: quantization-aware training
The TensorFlow team explains how fake-quantization nodes are trained into a model.
TensorFlow · Watch on YouTubeQuantization part 4: bit depth
What each extra bit buys you in resolution and noise.
Watch on YouTubeQuantization part 6: quantization noise demo
Hear quantization noise as bit depth drops.
Watch on YouTubeSampling rate and bit depth explained
Sample rate versus bit depth for audio, with practical recording advice.
Music Technology 101 · Watch on YouTubeDither explained (with sound examples)
Audio examples of truncation distortion and how dither removes it.
Watch on YouTubeDithering explained 1/2: quantization noise
Why low-level signals turn into distortion without dither.
Music Technology 101 · Watch on YouTubeIntro to noise-shaping ADCs
Delta-sigma modulators and noise shaping from first principles.
Watch on YouTubeHow to quantize your MIDI recordings
Grid, strength and swing applied to real MIDI parts.
Watch on YouTubeHow to quantize in Ableton
Quantize settings and real-time quantizing in a popular DAW.
Watch on YouTubeMIDI quantization (time correction)
Time quantize options walk-through for Logic users.
Watch on YouTubeHow to quantize MIDI in REAPER and most DAWs
The quantize concepts that carry across every DAW.
Watch on YouTubeQuantum 101 episode 2: quantization explained
Why energy comes in discrete packets.
Watch on YouTubeBohr model: quantized energy states
Worked derivation of hydrogen's energy levels.
Michel van Biezen · Watch on YouTubeQuantized energy and photons
Planck's relation and photon energy problems step by step.
Chemistry tutorial · Watch on YouTubeParticle in a box explained
Standing waves and quantized energies for a confined particle.
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