Clark Labs has released Clark Air, a 1.6 billion parameter text-to-image transformer model that has been compressed to approximately 1.85 bits per weight. This quantization results in a model size that is 8.6 times smaller than its FP16 equivalent, reducing the packed file size to 374 MB while maintaining near-FP16 quality. The model is based on the Sana 1.6B architecture and utilizes ternary quantization with a small high-precision tail for conditioning and projection layers. AI
IMPACT Enables deployment of advanced text-to-image models on devices with limited storage and computational resources.
RANK_REASON Release of a quantized model with performance metrics.
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