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LLM.int8()
LLM.int8() is an 8-bit inference method for large language models, introduced by Tim Dettmers and colleagues in August 2022, that quantizes most matrix multiplications to 8-bit while keeping outlier features in 16-bit.
LLM2Vec
LLM2Vec is an unsupervised method, introduced in April 2024, that transforms any decoder-only large language model into a text encoder through bidirectional attention, masked prediction, and contrastive learning.
LLMLingua
LLMLingua is a prompt compression method from Microsoft Research that removes unimportant tokens from prompts before inference, compressing them up to 20x with little performance loss.
Llona
Llona, born Michael Ajuma Attah in Kogi State and formerly the rapper TooClassiq, is a Nigerian emo-afrobeats singer whose debut album Homeless (2024) he toured across 23 states in 2025.
Lloque Yupanqui
Lloque Yupanqui (Quechua Lloq'i Yupanki) was the third Sapa Inca of the Kingdom of Cusco, succeeding Sinchi Roca; most chroniclers credit him with no conquests, though Garcilaso describes campaigns.
Lloret de Mar
Lloret de Mar, Costa Brava resort town in Catalonia's Selvà comarca; 36,533 residents swelling to ~200,000 in summer; 5.1 million overnight stays in 2025, 120 hotels, main markets France, UK, and Poland.
Llorona Planitia
Llorona Planitia (La Llorona) is a 2,600 km wide lowland plain on Venus at 18°N, 145°E, IAU-approved in 1997, named for the Mexican/Spanish folktale heroine, with corona volcanism and deformation belts.
Lloy Ball
Lloy Ball is an American setter and former volleyball player who was part of the US team that won a gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Lloyd (singer)
Lloyd (Lloyd Harlin Polite Jr., born 1986, New Orleans) is an American R&B singer from Decatur, Georgia, ex-N-Toon, known for 'Southside,' 'You,' 'Get It Shawty,' 'Lay It Down,' and the Platinum single 'Tru.'
Lloyd A. Duscha
Lloyd A. Duscha was an American civil engineer and dam safety authority who retired in 1990 as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' highest-ranking civilian.
Lloyd A. Greene
Lloyd A. Greene is an American neurobiologist and Columbia University professor emeritus who, with Arthur Tischler, established the PC12 cell line for studying nerve growth factor.
Lloyd Austin
Lloyd James Austin III (born 1953) is a retired U.S. Army four-star general and the 28th Secretary of Defense (2021-2025), the first African American in the role; former CENTCOM commander, Silver Star recipient, confirmed 93-2 with a congressional waiver.
Lloyd Avery II
Lloyd Avery II, American actor (1969-2005) from Los Angeles, played Knucklehead #2 in Boyz n the Hood; later convicted of double murder, killed by cellmate at Pelican Bay prison.
Lloyd Bacon
Lloyd Francis Bacon (1889 or 1890-1955), American film director and actor. Chaplin supporting player who directed over 100 films, including The Singing Fool, 42nd Street, and Footlight Parade.
Lloyd Banks
Lloyd Banks (Christopher Lloyd, born 1982) is an American rapper from Queens, New York, G-Unit co-founder with 50 Cent and Tony Yayo, solo debut The Hunger for More (2004), later The Course of the Inevitable trilogy; distinct from Lloyds Bank.
Lloyd Bentsen
Lloyd Bentsen (1921–2006), Texas Democrat, four-term US senator, 1988 Democratic vice-presidential nominee famous for 'you're no Jack Kennedy,' and 69th Treasury Secretary under Clinton, 1993–1994.
Lloyd Berkner
Lloyd Berkner (1905–1967) was an American geophysicist and electrical engineer who built the first automatic ionospheric observatories and proposed the International Geophysical Year of 1957–1958.
Lloyd Blankfein
Lloyd Blankfein is an American banker who was chairman and chief executive of Goldman Sachs from 2006 to 2018, leading the firm through the 2008 financial crisis and a record SEC settlement.
Lloyd Bochner
Lloyd Wolfe Bochner (1924–2005), Canadian actor known as Cecil Colby on Dynasty, the cryptographer in The Twilight Zone's To Serve Man, and the voice of Mayor Hamilton Hill in Batman: The Animated Series.
Lloyd Bridges
Lloyd Bridges (1913–1998), American film and TV actor, star of Sea Hunt as diver Mike Nelson, deputy in High Noon, McCroskey in Airplane!, father of Beau and Jeff Bridges, briefly blacklisted.
Lloyd Butler
Lloyd LeMarr Butler (1924–1991), American rower from Sparks, Nevada; Cal-Berkeley oarsman who won gold in the men's eight at the 1948 London Olympics (5:56.7), his only Games, and later a Standard Oil executive.
Lloyd Carr
Lloyd Carr, born 1945, is a former Michigan Wolverines head football coach (1995-2007), 122-40, five Big Ten titles, and 1997 AP national championship; previously Michigan defensive coordinator.
Lloyd Cole
Lloyd Cole (born 1961, Buxton, England) is an English singer-songwriter, frontman of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions (Rattlesnakes, 1984) and solo artist from Lloyd Cole (1990) to On Pain (2023), known for literate lyrics and genre shifts.
Lloyd D Keigwin
Lloyd D Keigwin is a paleoceanographer and Senior Scientist in Geology and Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, known for reconstructing past Atlantic ocean circulation from deep-sea sediments.
Lloyd Doggett
Lloyd Doggett (Lloyd Alton Doggett II), Democratic U.S. Representative from Austin, Texas, since 1995; former Texas state senator (1973-1985) and Texas Supreme Court justice (1989-1994); dean of the Texas delegation, retiring in 2026 after redistricting.
Lloyd E. Elkins Sr.
Lloyd E. Elkins Sr. (1912–2004) was an American petroleum engineer who led the research group that invented hydraulic fracturing and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976.
Lloyd Eisler
Lloyd Edgar Eisler Jr. (born 1963, Seaforth, Ontario), Canadian pair skater; with Isabelle Brasseur won Olympic bronze 1992 and 1994, 1993 World gold, five Canadian titles; earlier partners Lorri Baier and Katherina Matousek.
Lloyd Espenschied
Lloyd Espenschied (1889–1986) was an American electrical engineer at AT&T and Bell Labs who co-invented the coaxial cable, receiving the 1931 patent with Herman A. Affel.
Lloyd H. Smith Jr.
Lloyd H. Smith Jr., also known as Lloyd Hollingsworth Smith Jr., was an American physician-scientist who led UCSF's Department of Medicine from 1964 and studied the biochemical basis of genetic disease.
Lloyd Hahn
Lloyd George Hahn (1898-1983), American middle-distance runner of the Boston AA; two-time Olympian (6th, 1500 m, 1924; 5th, 800 m, 1928) who ran an unratified 800 m world record of 1:51.4 at the 1928 US Olympic Trials.