Lost in the bf16 Cast: Exporting Ternary Language Models Can Revert Most Low-Learning-Rate Code Changes

Avichal Sahai, Nishant Raj, Animesh Srivastava

Ternary language models such as BitNet b1.58, Falcon-E and BitCPM are fine-tuned through higher-precision latents and deployed as ternary codes by an export that, in the labs' docu…