Training-free INT3 KV cache quantization: 5.09× compression, ~10 lines of Python, <5% WikiText-2 ΔPPL on 8 of 8 open-weight Transformers (GPT-J 2021 → Gemma-4 2026). No calibration, no codebook, no rotation, no adapter. +2.4% decode overhead with torch.compile (no custom CUDA).
reproducible-research transformers pytorch open-science quantization memory-optimization kv-cache int4 calibration-free llm-inference int3 norm-separation per-channel-quantization activation-outliers
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