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: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:2606. 07819v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recently, the efficiency of Large Language Models (LLMs) deployment has become a critical concern in practical applications.
By Hoang-Loc La, Truong-Thanh Le, Amir Taherkordi, Phuong Hoai Ha
arXiv:2606. 11244v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Efficient large language model (LLM) serving is increasingly constrained by deployment cost.
By Hongyuan Liu, Yawei Li, Zhiqiang Que, Qinli Yang, Junming Shao, Guosheng Hu
arXiv:2605. 26660v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Quantization is an effective approach to reduce the memory footprint and inference cost of large language models (LLMs), yet maintaining performance in the ultra-low-bit regime remains challenging.
By Phong Nam Huu Nguyen, Khoi M. Le, Cong-Duy T Nguyen, Anh Tuan Luu, Thong Thanh Nguyen, Tho Quan
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:2607. 23047v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mixed-precision quantization improves the accuracy of post-training quantization by allocating higher bitwidths to sensitive layers, but existing methods solve the allocation for a single fixed memory budget.
By Ashitabh Misra, Madhav Agrawal, Arham Jain, Tarek Abdelzaher
arXiv:2606. 10531v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantization-aware training (QAT) is essential for extremely low-bit large language models (LLMs).
By Haoyu Wang, Xingyu Yu, Haiyan Zhao, Fengxiang Wang, Xu Han
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:2512. 18934v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Catastrophic forgetting poses a fundamental challenge in continual learning, particularly when models are quantized for deployment efficiency.
By Michael S. Zhang, Rishi A. Ruia, Arnav Kewalram, Saathvik Dharmapuram, Utkarsh Sharma, Kevin Zhu
arXiv:2505. 01043v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance across various domains.
By Zhiwei Hao, Jianyuan Guo, Li Shen, Yong Luo, Han Hu, Guoxia Wang, Dianhai Yu, Yonggang Wen, Dacheng Tao
arXiv:2606. 04238v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Aggressive weight quantization to 2-bit precision offers substantial throughput and memory gains for large language model (LLM) inference, but typically incurs severe accuracy degradation.
By Devleena Das, Rajeev Patwari, Elliott Delaye, Ashish Sirasao