arXiv AI
Jul 9
MiLSD: A Micro Line-Segment Detector for Resource-Constrained Devices
arXiv:2607. 06600v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Line segment detection is a key building block in visual SLAM, 3D reconstruction, and industrial inspection.
I-Segmenter: Integer-Only Vision Transformer for Efficient Semantic Segmentation
arXiv:2509. 10334v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently achieved strong results in semantic segmentation, yet their deployment on resource-constrained devices remains limited due to their high memory footprint and computational cost.
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arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 9
Activation Quantization of Vision Encoders Needs Prefixing Registers
arXiv:2510. 04547v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large pretrained vision encoders are central to multimodal intelligence, powering applications from on-device vision processing to vision-language models.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 31
MixFrag: Fragility-Guided Mixed-Precision Post-Training Quantization for Vision Transformers
arXiv:2607. 28589v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Post-training quantization (PTQ) has emerged as an effective solution for deploying Vision Transformers (ViTs) on resource-constrained devices.
arXiv AI
Jul 2
LUMA: Benchmarking Segmentation via a Lightweight Universal Mask Adapter
arXiv:2607. 00687v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Comparing transformer backbones for image segmentation is confounded: each is paired with a different decoder, recipe, and pretraining, so reported differences rarely reflect the backbone itself.
arXiv AI
Jul 28
Real-Time Semantic Segmentation with Optimized RetinaNet Architectures for Embedded Automotive Systems
arXiv:2607. 22714v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-time perception is a foundational requirement for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicles, yet embedded automotive platforms impose severe constraints on compute, memory, and power.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 22
Recti-Q: Feature-Space Rectification for Out-of-Distribution-Robust Quantized Perception in Edge Robotics
arXiv:2607. 18540v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic perception pipelines increasingly rely on large vision backbones deployed on SWaP-constrained edge platforms, making post-training quantization (PTQ) attractive for real-time inference.
arXiv AI
Jun 16
RaBiT: Residual-Aware Binarization Training for Accurate and Efficient LLMs
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.
arXiv AI
Jun 3
MX-SAFE: Versatile Inference- and Training-Proof Microscaling Format with On-the-Fly Exponent and Mantissa Bit Allocation
arXiv:2605. 24391v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As the demand for deep learning grows, cost reduction through quantization has become essential for both training and inference.
arXiv AI
1d ago
FluxBin: Flexible LUT-based Ultra-low-bit LLM Inference by Algorithm-Kernel Synergy
arXiv:2608. 15602v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While binary quantization theoretically promises extreme compression and acceleration for Large Language Models (LLMs), existing research often overlooks the necessity of specialized hardware kernels, thus failing to unleash the full acceleration potential due to persistent reliance on expensive floating-point arithmetic or runtime dequantization overheads.
arXiv AI
Jul 7
ARCQuant: Boosting NVFP4 Quantization with Augmented Residual Channels for LLMs
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.
arXiv Machine Learning
6d ago
Achieving Near-Zero-Overhead Multi-Model Hierarchical Classification in Real-Time Detection Pipelines
arXiv:2608. 11770v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Edge-deployed vision systems in target recognition, surveillance, autonomous vehicles, and drone domains require hierarchical inference pipelines where a detection model identifies objects of interest and downstream classifiers provide fine-grained attribute analysis.
arXiv AI
Jun 2
LALE: Lightweight-Transformer Architecture for Land-Cover Estimation
arXiv:2606. 02092v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semantic segmentation of remote sensing imagery requires models that capture both global context and local detail under tight computational budgets.