arXiv Machine Learning

BALF: Budgeted Activation-Aware Low-Rank Factorization for Fine-Tuning-Free Model Compression

arXiv:2509. 25136v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Activation-aware low-rank factorization techniques yield strong compression results but are generally confined to linear layers, while existing whitening-based theory typically makes an implicit full-rank assumption on activations.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

LASER: Loss-Aware Singular-value Decomposition and Rank Allocation for Efficient Low-Precision Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2606. 00573v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) deliver strong multimodal reasoning capabilities, but their large computational cost and high parameter counts make deployment challenging on resource-constrained devices.

By Haiyu Wang, Yutong Wang, Leshu Li, Yihui Ren, Sai Qian Zhang
arXiv AI
Sep 10

Mind the Approximation: Fisher-Weighted SVD Compression for ViTs

The paper introduces FACTS, a structured Fisher Approximation for compressing Vision Transformers (ViTs) using Fisher-weighted SVD, which enforces token‑local aggregation while preserving within‑token activation‑gradient dependence. It also presents Constrained Rank Search (CoRS) to optimize layer‑wise rank allocation under a fixed FLOP budget. Experiments on ViTs and hybrid architectures show that FACTS improves accuracy‑efficiency trade‑offs, outperforming the strongest SVD baseline by up to +5.8 percentage points on Swin‑B without requiring finetuning.

By Moritz Thoma, Maximilian Groezinger, Maximilian Forstenh\"ausler, Emad Aghajanzadeh, Ryan Pegoud, Manoj Rohit Vemparala, Pierpaolo Mori, Alexander Frickenstein, Daniel Mueller-Gritschneder, Ulf Schlichtmann
arXiv AI
Aug 28

Fine-Tuning of Transformer models with Frames

The paper introduces FrameFT, a parameter-efficient fine-tuning method for transformer models that represents weight updates using sparse coefficients in a Fusion Frame basis. This approach reduces memory usage by storing only the sparse coefficients, leading to significant compute advantages and formal convergence guarantees. Experiments on language and vision tasks show that FrameFT matches or surpasses state‑of‑the‑art PEFT techniques while requiring far fewer trainable parameters.

By Harshavardhan Adepu, Li Zhang, Sanjiv Kumar, Vikas Singh
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

Group-Shared Low-Rank Approximation for Mobile-Efficient Pointwise Convolutions in Large-Kernel CNNs

The paper introduces Channel Group-Shared (CGS) low‑rank approximation, a Singular Value Decomposition–based strategy that shares down/up‑projection matrices across channel groups while using lightweight diagonal matrices for each group. This design dramatically cuts the parameter count of pointwise convolutions, which dominate the size of large‑kernel CNNs such as RepLKNet, ConvNeXt, and SLaK. Experiments show that CGS‑enhanced models maintain competitive accuracy while substantially reducing storage, memory bandwidth, and loading latency, making them viable for deployment on edge devices.

By Hao Luo, Yiting Yang, Wenyi Zhao, Man Jiang, Zhijun Lin, Ghulam Mohiuddin, Ting Jiang, Kunming Luo, Zihao Zhang, Qingsen Yan, Guoqing Wang, Wei Dong, Peng Wang
arXiv Computation and Language
3d ago

Learning Functional Subspaces for Neural Network Compression

arXiv:2609.40127v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern transformers pair impressive capabilities with substantial memory and compute demands. Low-rank weight factorization reduces both while keepin...

By Massimo Bini, Anders Christensen, Stephan Alaniz, Judah Goldfeder, Ole Winther, Yann LeCun, Ravid Shwartz-Ziv, Zeynep Akata