arXiv Machine Learning

FPTQuant: Function-Preserving Transforms for LLM Quantization

arXiv:2506. 04985v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) require substantial compute, and thus energy, at inference time.

arXiv Machine Learning
1d ago

CodeQuant: Unified Clustering and Quantization for Enhanced Outlier Smoothing in Low-Precision Mixture-of-Experts

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 AI
Jul 29

Stable FP4 Training via Transposition-Invariant Block Quantization

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