arXiv:2601. 22709v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) achieve strong multimodal performance but are costly to deploy, and post-training quantization often causes significant accuracy loss.
By Yanlong Chen, Amirhossein Habibian, Luca Benini, Yawei Li
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.
Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong performance across many tasks, but their high computational cost limits deployment in resource-constrained environments. Knowledge Distillation (KD) offers a practical solution by transferring knowledge from a teacher model of a larger size to a smaller student model.
arXiv:2606. 26650v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we present CAT-Q, Cost-efficient and Accurate Ternary Quantization, for compressing and accelerating LLMs.
By Shigeng Wang, Chao Li, Yangyuxuan Kang, Jiawei Fan, Anbang Yao
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
arXiv:2606. 25488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge Distillation (KD) is widely used to obtain compact models for efficient inference in resource-constrained environments.
By Yifan Wu, Yiqi Wang, Xichen Ye, Wenjing Yan, Xiaoqiang Li, Cheng Jin, Xiangyu Yue, Weizhong Zhang
arXiv:2606. 05682v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Demand for low-precision inference, including NVFP4-based approaches, has grown as large language models are increasingly deployed in latency and cost constrained production environments.
By Fangbo Tu, Junhua Zhao, Chi Liu, Xin Chen, Haifeng Wu, Jian Wan, Srinivasan Manoharan
arXiv:2606. 05682v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Demand for low-precision inference, including NVFP4-based approaches, has grown as large language models are increasingly deployed in latency and cost constrained production environments.
By Fangbo Tu, Junhua Zhao, Chi Liu, Xin Chen, Haifeng Wu, Jian Wan, Srinivasan Manoharan
arXiv:2606. 18114v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: State Space Models (SSMs) such as Mamba-2 offer linear-time inference but their memory footprint limits edge deployment.
By Ramprasath Ganesaraja, Sahil Dilip Panse, Swathika N
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
Compression is fundamental to intelligence. A model that can represent its training data as a short code has discovered regularities that enable generalization.
arXiv:2606. 09012v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Post-training quantization (PTQ) converts a trained full-precision model into low-bit weights without task-level retraining, while quantization-aware training (QAT) incorporates quantization into the training loop.
By Hanyang Li, Jianhao Ma, Ying Cui