Mohan Vamsi Varadaraju Priya

Silent Failures in Quantized LLM Reasoning: A Taxonomy-Based Analysis of Hollow Convergence and Failure Mode Shifts

Renuka Oladri, Mohan Vamsi Varadaraju Priya, Jerry Wu

We show that post-training quantization can silently alter how large language models reason even when task accuracy is preserved. Using a six-category failure taxonomy validated by two independent human annotators (Cohen's $κ$ = 0.906), we classify 30,000 chain-of-thought outputs…Read more