This report synthesises findings from 13 peer-reviewed papers addressing the following research question: How does quantization-aware training affect multimodal alignment performance on the MME benchmark relative to post-training quantization methods. 16 claims were extracted from source literature; 13 were independently verified against retrieved documents. An automated multi-reviewer quality assessment produced a score of 7.5/10. This report is a machine-generated literature synthesis and does not constitute original research.Research goal: How does quantization-aware training affect multimodal alignment performance on the MME benchmark relative to post-training quantization methods?Autonomous literature synthesis. Automated review score: 7.5/10. Full text and citation available at Assignee Research.