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: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. 04349v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conventional Post-Training Quantization (PTQ) methods struggle with 4-bit Omni-modal Large Language Models (OLLMs) due to the extreme distribution heterogeneity and disparate outlier patterns across modalities.
By Yue Wu, Changyuan Wang, Zixuan Wang, Shilin Ma, Yansong Tang
arXiv:2410. 13056v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable success across a wide range of language tasks, but their deployment on edge devices remains challenging due to the substantial memory requirements imposed by their large parameter sizes.
By Zihan Chen, Bike Xie, Jundong Li, Cong Shen
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: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: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: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:2606. 13054v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) exhibit exceptional general language processing capabilities, but their memory and compute costs hinder deployment.
By Zhixiong Zhao, Zukang Xu, Zhixuan Chen, Xing Hu, Zhe Jiang, Dawei Yang
Large language models (LLMs) exhibit exceptional general language processing capabilities, but their memory and compute costs hinder deployment. Ternarization has emerged as a promising compression technique, offering significant reductions in model size and inference complexity.
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: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