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: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: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.
By Dahoon Park, Jahyun Koo, Sangwoo Hwang, Jaeha Kung
arXiv:2607. 14618v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: CPUs are the most universal target for on-device LLM inference, but existing low-bit quantization methods offer either coarse operating points or fine-grained mixed precision that is difficult to execute efficiently on CPUs.
By Hyunwoo Oh, Suyeon Jang, Hanning Chen, KyungIn Nam, Sanggeon Yun, Ryozo Masukawa, Mohsen Imani
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:2607. 08241v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying classifier-free guidance (CFG) diffusion models under real-world compute budgets requires quantization, yet existing post-training quantization (PTQ) methods treat CFG models as single-branch networks, ignoring the paired conditional/unconditional structure that CFG inference fundamentally relies on.
By Abdullah Al Shafi, Sumaiya Rahim Suma
arXiv:2602. 10431v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) demand substantial computational and memory resources, posing challenges for efficient deployment.
By Kanghyun Noh, Jinheon Choi, Yulhwa 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: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:2602. 01027v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Mixed-precision quantization is a promising approach for compressing large language models under tight memory budgets.
By Xin Nie, Haicheng Zhang, Liang Dong, Beining Feng, Jinhong Weng, Guiling Sun
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:2606. 27884v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mixed-precision computation has been introduced in deep neural networks (DNNs) as an effective approach to reduce latency, energy consumption, and memory footprint.
By Leandro Fiorin, Marco Ronzani, Cristina Silvano