Proof-of-Useful-Work forced us to invent a quantization format that did not exist. Pearl Protocol adds noise to both the weights and activations before matrix multiplication. That creates a constraint ordinary inference stacks do not have - the model values and the noise must fit together inside IN
@prlnet·Jul 20, 2026·2 sources·neutral
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Pearl Protocol introduces a quantization format that reserves one bit of headroom for noise to enable Proof-of-Useful-Work.
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Proof-of-Useful-Work forced us to invent a quantization format that did not exist. Pearl Protocol adds noise to both the weights and activations before matrix multiplication. That creates a constraint ordinary inference stacks do not have - the model values and the noise must fit together inside IN
@prlnet
Jul 20, 2026
Proof-of-Useful-Work forced us to invent a quantization format that did not exist. Pearl Protocol adds noise to both the weights and activations before matrix multiplication. That creates a constraint ordinary inference stacks do not have - the model values and the noise must fit together inside IN
@evan_van_ness
Jul 20, 2026