arXiv:2507. 23035v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across a wide range of applications, but demand substantial memory and compute resources during inference.
By Xueying Wu, Baijun Zhou, Zhihui Gao, Yuzhe Fu, Qilin Zheng, Yintao He, Hai Li
arXiv:2606. 15652v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 4-bit quantization significantly reduces the memory footprint and accelerates the inference of large language models (LLMs).
By Yangjia Hu, Haodong Wang, Zicong Hong, Qianli Liu, Quanxin Shou, Jian Lin, Song Guo, Xiaowei Shen, Xiangjun Huang, Dian Wang, Jian Yang
arXiv:2606. 07819v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recently, the efficiency of Large Language Models (LLMs) deployment has become a critical concern in practical applications.
By Hoang-Loc La, Truong-Thanh Le, Amir Taherkordi, Phuong Hoai Ha
arXiv:2601. 07475v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The emergence of fine-grained numerical formats like NVFP4 presents new opportunities for efficient Large Language Model (LLM) inference.
By Haoqian Meng, Yilun Luo, Yafei Zhao, Wenyuan Liu, Peng Zhang, Xindian Ma
arXiv:2607. 17733v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 4-bit quantization enables efficient LLM inference, but suffers from significant accuracy degradation due to outliers.
By Simla Burcu Harma, Danila Mishin, Zhengyuan Su, Ayan Chakraborty, Elizaveta Kostenok, Dongho Ha, Babak Falsafi, Martin Jaggi, Yunho Oh, Amir Yazdanbakhsh
arXiv:2605. 08692v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Post-training weight-only quantization to 4 bits is widely used to reduce the memory and compute costs of large language model inference.
By Beshr IslamBouli, David Jin
arXiv:2510. 26690v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has become a popular technique for parameter-efficient fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs).
By Amir Reza Mirzaei, Yuqiao Wen, Yanshuai Cao, Lili Mou
arXiv:2608. 07019v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training quantization (PTQ) is widely used to reduce the memory and computational cost of large language models.
By Yongge Ma, Guoan Wang, Feiyu Wang, Yaoming Li, Qian Zhang, Zihan Yan, Yinjun Han, Tong Yang
arXiv:2505. 18231v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) inference is typically memory-intensive, especially when processing large batch sizes and long sequences, due to the large size of key-value (KV) cache.
By Donghyun Son, Euntae Choi, Sungjoo Yoo
arXiv:2606. 04620v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs have become the state-of-the-art algorithms for solving NLP tasks.
By Pasindu Wickramasinghe, Achyuta Muthuvelan, Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra, Minghao Shao, Muhammad Shafique
arXiv:2604. 10496v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Outliers have emerged as a fundamental bottleneck in preserving accuracy for low-precision large models, particularly within Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures that are increasingly central to large-scale language modeling.
By Xiangyang Yin, Xingyu Liu, Tianhua Xia, Bo Bao, Vithursan Thangarasa, Valavan Manohararajah, Eric Sather, Sai Qian Zhang
arXiv:2607. 24953v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reducing training precision is a key lever for improving the e ciency of large language model (LLM) training, but pushing beyond FP8 to 4-bit oating point (FP4) remains challenging due to instability during optimization.
By Mehdi Rahimifar, Amin Darabi, Mehran Taghian Jazi, Xing Huang, Yao Wang, Zhijun Tu, Yufei Cui, Yunke Peng, Hongliang Li