Cover image showing INT4 quantization flow: FP16 weights compressed to INT4 with block-wise scales

Build an INT4 Block-Wise Weight-Only Quantizer for Transformer Attention Layers

Build a production-grade INT4 block-wise weight-only quantizer from scratch in pure Python. This guide covers calibration, dequantization, benchmarking, and why this project signals senior ML-systems skill to hiring managers.

September 10, 2026 · 13 min · 2663 words · martinuke0
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