ORTHRUS-QWEN3 BOOSTS AI INFERENCE 7.8X FASTER
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A new optimization technique called Orthrus achieves up to 7.8× speedup on Qwen3 model inference while maintaining identical output distribution. The method is now available on GitHub.
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