Post-training quantization (PTQ) is widely used to reduce the cost of serving large language models (LLMs), but its accuracy cost is uneven and is often tuned per model. We study where quantization damage occurs and how to allocate a small additional precision budget. Using causal mixed-precision intervention as ground truth (raise each layer to 8-bit in turn and measure the accuracy it recovers) across 9 open-weight models in 4 architecture families, we test 3 intuitive hypotheses: that quantization damage lives in task circuits, where the model computes, or in weight statistics. None of them predicts which layers benefit from restored precision. Recovery is instead diffuse: for 8 of 9 models, recovering 75% of the gap takes roughly half the layers; the lone exception, Qwen3-8B, is sharply concentrated. At a matched precision budget, spending it globally on finer quantization granularity beats locally repairing the most recoverable layers for all 8 group-128-compatible models (all but OpenLLaMA, whose width rules out group-128), by 21-52 points, including the concentrated Qwen3-8B. We report 2 secondary findings: the residual is budget-limited (8-bit is near-lossless in our evaluation across RTN, GPTQ, and AWQ), and the location of peak recovery correlates with architecture within a family, though not across families. Within this budget setting, global granularity is a better default than selectively protecting critical layers. More broadly, cheap signals that correlate with quantization damage do not necessarily identify where restoring precision improves accuracy; this must be tested with causal intervention.
AI-based text summarization plays a critical role in managing the rapidly increasing volume of textual information by enabling efficient information retrieval and concise knowledge representation. Conventional summarization approaches often rely on heuristic rules and surface-level features, limiting their ability to capture contextual relevance and semantic coherence in long documents. To overcome these limitations, this study develops a deep learning–based extractive text summarization framework using a hybrid Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) combined with Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) architecture. The model leverages BERT’s bidirectional transformer encoder to generate rich contextual sentence embeddings and employs a BiLSTM network to model inter-sentence dependencies and document-level structure, enabling effective identification of summary-worthy sentences while preserving original semantic content. The framework is evaluated using the BBC News Summary dataset, which contains professionally written news articles and corresponding human reference summaries. Performance is assessed through sentence-level classification metrics and ROUGE-based evaluation. Experimental results demonstrate strong effectiveness, achieving an overall accuracy of 98.5%, with balanced precision (98.7%), recall (98.2%), and F1-score (98.45%), indicating reliable sentence importance classification. In addition, the model attains competitive ROUGE ((Recall-Oriented Understudy for Gisting Evaluation) scores (ROUGE-1 = 0.56, ROUGE-2 = 0.33, and ROUGE-L = 0.52), confirming substantial overlap with human summaries. These results highlight the robustness, generalization capability, and practical applicability of the suggested BERT–BiLSTM structure for automatic text summarization and knowledge representation.
Dr. RakeshKumar ER, S. Ramachandran, Ayushi Khandal et al.· 2026 7th International Confe...· 0 citations
