arXiv:2510. 18784v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite significant work on low-bit quantization-aware training (QAT), there is still an accuracy gap between such techniques and native training.
By Soroush Tabesh, Mher Safaryan, Andrei Panferov, Alexandra Volkova, Dan Alistarh
arXiv:2608. 13966v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language model inference shifts toward lower precision, post-training quantization (PTQ) becomes increasingly brittle, making quantization-aware training (QAT) essential for preserving model quality.
By Vincent Counathe, Ben Athiwaratkun, Christopher De Sa, Tianyi Zhang
arXiv:2607. 07964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training quantization (PTQ) is a widely adopted technique for compressing large language models (LLMs) without retraining.
By Donghyun Lee, Yuhang Li, Ruokai Yin, Priyadarshini Panda
arXiv:2608. 12239v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Use this plain-text version for the arXiv abstract field: Learned image compression (LIC) models achieve strong rate-distortion performance but are hindered by high computational complexity and encoding-decoding mismatches across heterogeneous hardware platforms.
By Yuefeng Zhang
Use this plain-text version for the arXiv abstract field: Learned image compression (LIC) models achieve strong rate-distortion performance but are hindered by high computational complexity and encoding-decoding mismatches across heterogeneous hardware platforms. Uniform fixed-precision quantization alleviates these issues but suffers severe quality degradation at low bit widths because it ignores differences in the quantization sensitivities of individual layers.
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: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:2602. 06694v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Weight-only quantization has become a standard approach for efficiently serving large language models (LLMs).
By Hyochan Chong, Dongkyu Kim, Changdong Kim, Minseop Choi
arXiv:2608. 15567v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Weight-only post-training quantization (PTQ) enables the deployment of large language models under tight memory budgets, but accuracy often collapses at 2-3 bits.
By Gunjun Lee, Sehwan Son, Younjoo Lee, Byungjun Kim, Jung Ho Ahn
In this paper, we present CAT-Q, Cost-efficient and Accurate Ternary Quantization, for compressing and accelerating LLMs. Unlike existing state-of-the-art ternary quantization methods that rely on data-intensive and costly quantization-aware training to mitigate severe performance degradation, CAT-Q is a simple yet effective post-training quantization scheme that is readily applicable to LLMs with diverse architectures and model sizes.
arXiv:2505. 22988v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The goal of quantization is to produce a compressed model whose output distribution is as close to the original model's as possible.
By Albert Tseng, Zhaofeng Sun, Christopher De Sa