arXiv:2606. 00289v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantization is a fundamental tool used to compress datasets, neural network weights, and memory usage in a range of computational tasks.
By Nathan White, Krish Singal
arXiv:2608. 06291v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We accelerate a family of algorithms for neural network quantization whose geometry is informed by any Kronecker-factored approximation of the Hessian.
By Johann Birnick, Rayan Saab
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:2608. 11045v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: ReRound (Reconstructive Rounding) is a post-training quantization method that addresses the midpoint ambiguity inherent in standard round-to-nearest (RTN) schemes when quantizing weights near the centers of quantization intervals.
By He-Yen Hsieh, H. T. Kung
arXiv:2510. 18784v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite significant work on low-bit quantization-aware training (QAT), there is still an accuracy gap between such techniques and native training.
By Soroush Tabesh, Mher Safaryan, Andrei Panferov, Alexandra Volkova, Dan Alistarh
arXiv:2607. 07964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training quantization (PTQ) is a widely adopted technique for compressing large language models (LLMs) without retraining.
By Donghyun Lee, Yuhang Li, Ruokai Yin, Priyadarshini Panda
arXiv:2601. 21626v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Post Training Quantization (PTQ), a mainstream model compression technique, often leads to the paradoxical 'low error, high loss' phenomenon because it focuses solely on minimizing quantization error.
By Jinhao Zhang, Yunquan Zhang, Zicheng yan, Boyang Zhang, Jun Sun, Daning Cheng
arXiv:2608. 13966v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language model inference shifts toward lower precision, post-training quantization (PTQ) becomes increasingly brittle, making quantization-aware training (QAT) essential for preserving model quality.
By Vincent Counathe, Ben Athiwaratkun, Christopher De Sa, Tianyi Zhang
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:2608. 07019v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training quantization (PTQ) is widely used to reduce the memory and computational cost of large language models.
By Yongge Ma, Guoan Wang, Feiyu Wang, Yaoming Li, Qian Zhang, Zihan Yan, Yinjun Han, Tong Yang
arXiv:2606. 10890v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Post-training quantization (PTQ) compresses large language models by mapping weights to low-bit representations.
By Juan Amboage, Pablo Monteagudo-Lago, Ian Colbert, Giuseppe Franco, Nicholas Fraser
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