arXiv AI

QuBLAST: A Framework for Quantizing Large Language Models with Block-Level Compression Approach and Activation Scaling Strategy

arXiv:2606. 04620v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs have become the state-of-the-art algorithms for solving NLP tasks.

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Jun 3

STaR-Quant: State-Time Consistent Post-Training Quantization for Diffusion Large Language Models

Diffusion large language models (DLLMs) have recently emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive LLMs by generating text through iterative masked denoising with bidirectional context. However, their large model sizes and iterative denoising process introduce substantial memory and computational overhead, motivating post-training quantization for efficient deployment.

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