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:2608. 04048v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Serving large language models (LLMs) under diverse deployment constraints requires flexible trade-offs between accuracy, memory footprint, and throughput.
By Yu Luo, Bo Dong, Wenhua Cheng, Haihao Shen
arXiv:2606. 15652v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 4-bit quantization significantly reduces the memory footprint and accelerates the inference of large language models (LLMs).
By Yangjia Hu, Haodong Wang, Zicong Hong, Qianli Liu, Quanxin Shou, Jian Lin, Song Guo, Xiaowei Shen, Xiangjun Huang, Dian Wang, Jian Yang
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: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: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. 07116v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Low-bit quantization has been widely adopted to accelerate the inference of large language models (LLMs) by significantly reducing computational cost and memory usage.
By Haoqi Wang, Lorenz K. Mueller, Jiawei Zhuang, Mathieu Salzmann, Lukas Cavigelli
arXiv:2505. 18231v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) inference is typically memory-intensive, especially when processing large batch sizes and long sequences, due to the large size of key-value (KV) cache.
By Donghyun Son, Euntae Choi, Sungjoo Yoo
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: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:2606. 00079v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) large language models reduce per-token computation through sparse expert activation, but their deployment remains memory-intensive because all expert weights must be kept resident in memory.
By Jiayu Zhao, Zihan Teng, Minhao Fan, Tianrui Ma, Wentao Ren, Song Chen, Weichen Liu
arXiv:2606. 11244v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Efficient large language model (LLM) serving is increasingly constrained by deployment cost.
By Hongyuan Liu, Yawei Li, Zhiqiang Que, Qinli Yang, Junming Shao, Guosheng Hu