Quantized but Deceptive? A Multi-Dimensional Truthfulness Evaluation of Quantized LLMs (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Quantization enables efficient deployment of large language models in resource-constrained environments . but impact on truthfulness remains largely unexplored . |
| Approach: | They propose a framework to assess the truthfulness of quantized large language models . they find quantized models retain internally truthful representations but produce false outputs . |
| Outcome: | The framework assesses the truthfulness of quantized models across three dimensions . it finds that quantized model models retain internally truthful representations but are more susceptible to false outputs . |
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