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low quant weights make the embedding model lose all discriminative power. I plotted the cosine correlation matrix of jina-v5, and one can see that low quant makes the model really blind. The off-diagonal similarities are pretty high on Q1/2/3, meaning everything looks similar in the semantic space. Q4 is...

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