arXiv AI

Minimizing the Hidden Cost of Scales: Graph-Guided Ultra-Low-Bit Quantization for Large Language Models

arXiv:2606. 05429v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training quantization (PTQ) is critical for the efficient deployment of large language models (LLMs).

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 10

Squeeze10-LLM: Squeezing LLMs' Weights by 10 Times via a Staged Mixed-Precision Quantization Method

Squeeze10-LLM is a staged mixed‑precision post‑training quantization framework that reduces 16‑bit LLM weights to an average of 1.6 bits per weight by assigning 80% of weights to 1 bit and 20% to 4 bits. It introduces Post‑Binarization Activation Robustness (PBAR), a weight significance metric that considers activation impact, and Full Information Activation Supervision (FIAS), a strategy that preserves activation information to limit error propagation. Experiments on LLaMA and LLaMA2 demonstrate that Squeeze10‑LLM achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance for sub‑2‑bit weight‑only quantization, raising average accuracy from 43% to 56% on six zero‑shot classification tasks.

By Qingcheng Zhu, Yangyang Ren, Linlin Yang, Yanjing Li, Sheng Xu, Haodong Zhu, Juan Zhang, Runqi Wang, Baochang Zhang
arXiv AI
Sep 30

LeapQuant: Efficient Linear Attention with Accurate Recurrent State Quantization

arXiv:2609.38166v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent LLMs increasingly adopt hybrid designs that replace standard attention with linear attention, such as Gated DeltaNet (GDN) and Kimi Delta Atte...

By Yi Pan, Haocheng Xi, Kan Zhu, Xingyang Li, Yibo Wu, Mayank Mishra, Hongtao Zhang, William X. Zheng, Baris Kasikci, Song Han, Kurt Keutzer, Rishabh Iyer, Ion Stoica
arXiv AI
Jun 4

Stochastic Sparse Attention for Memory-Bound Inference

arXiv:2605. 01910v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autoregressive decoding becomes bandwidth-limited at long contexts, as generating each token requires reading all $n_k$ key and value vectors from KV cache.

By Kyle Lee, Corentin Delacour, Kevin Callahan-Coray, Kyle Jiang, Can Yaras, Samet Oymak, Tathagata Srimani, Kerem Y. Camsari
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

Robust Ultra Low-Bit Post-Training Quantization via Stable Diagonal Curvature Estimate

The paper introduces DASH-Q, a post‑training quantization method that uses a diagonal Hessian approximation and iterative weighted least squares to reduce noise in curvature estimates. By discarding noisy cross‑channel dependencies, DASH‑Q preserves salient feature power and achieves superior performance in ultra low‑bit quantization. Across five large language models, it improves zero‑shot accuracy by an average of 7.01% and up to 14.01% over the strongest baselines, even with very small calibration datasets.

By Jaemin Kim, Sungkyun Kim, Junyeol Lee, Jiwon Seo
arXiv AI
Aug 18

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.

By Qingyao Yang, Runming Yang, He Xiao, Wendong Xu, Junyu Chen, Haobo Liu, Chenchen Ding, Ruihan Hu, Yik-Chung Wu, Ngai Wong
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 1

RaBitQCache: Rotated Binary Quantization for KVCache in Long Context LLM Inference

arXiv:2606. 31519v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-context Large Language Model inference is severely bottlenecked by the massive Key-Value (KV) cache, yet existing sparse attention methods often suffer from static fixed-budget (Top-k) retrieval or rely on proxy scores that are computationally expensive and biased.

By Wenhao Li, Jinhao Dong, Hailin Zhang, Wenhang Shi, Wei Lu, Xiaoyong Du