arXiv:2608. 04048v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Serving large language models (LLMs) under diverse deployment constraints requires flexible trade-offs between accuracy, memory footprint, and throughput.
By Yu Luo, Bo Dong, Wenhua Cheng, Haihao Shen
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: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:2602. 05367v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Efficient deployment of large language models (LLMs) requires extreme quantization, forcing a critical trade-off between low-bit efficiency and performance.
By Youngcheon You, Banseok Lee, Minseop Choi, Seonyoung Kim, Hyochan Chong, Changdong Kim, Youngmin Kim, Dongkyu Kim
arXiv:2609.39223v2 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language model (LLM) inference is increasingly moving toward lower precision to realize the throughput of hardware accelerators, but aggressive p...
By Weili Xu, Jisen Li, Yuqing Jian, Chenxi Li, Zhizhou Sha, Yifan Yu, Qingyang Wu, Chenfeng Xu, Zhongzhu Zhou, Tianyi Zhang, Ben Athiwaratkun
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:2609.38166v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Recent LLMs increasingly adopt hybrid designs that replace standard attention with linear attention, such as Gated DeltaNet (GDN) and Kimi Delta Atte...
By Yi Pan, Haocheng Xi, Kan Zhu, Xingyang Li, Yibo Wu, Mayank Mishra, Hongtao Zhang, William X. Zheng, Baris Kasikci, Song Han, Kurt Keutzer, Rishabh Iyer, Ion Stoica
arXiv:2609.06161v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress, yet their massive storage and memory-bandwidth demands still hinder efficient deploym...
By Zhixiong Zhao, Zukang Xu, Guangyu Sun, Lifeng Liu, Dawei Yang
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:2601. 22813v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The NVFP4 lower-precision format, supported in hardware by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, promises to allow, for the first time, end-to-end fully-quantized pre-training of massive models such as LLMs.
By Andrei Panferov, Erik Schultheis, Soroush Tabesh, Dan Alistarh
arXiv:2608.20953v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Serving large language models cheaply increasingly means shipping models that are both structurally compressed to a fraction of their parameters and...
By Bakbergen Ryskulov, Iker Garc\'ia-Ferrero, David Montero, David Jansen, Ali Hashemi, Jezabel R. Garcia, Antonio Tiene, Rom\'an Or\'us
Post-training quantization lowers the memory footprint of Large Language Models (LLMs) and speeds up inference, which is why it is now common for on-device deployment. Most of what we know about its e...