arXiv Machine Learning

ARCHead: Activation-Metric Residual Correction for Large Language Model Output Heads

arXiv:2608. 02703v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Weight-only quantization substantially reduces the storage of large language model (LLM) transformer blocks, but practical backends often retain the final language-modeling head (LM-head) in BF16 or FP16.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

RotaryQuant: Fitting 120B MoE Models on Consumer Hardware via Fused Compressed-Space Attention

arXiv:2608. 08081v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large mixture-of-experts (MoE) language models with 26--120 billion parameters exceed the memory capacity of consumer devices through three simultaneous pressures: resident weight matrices, key-value (KV) cache state that grows linearly with context, and dozens of expert sublayers that must be paged on demand.

By Anthony. Lui, Mohamed. Elsaied, N. P. Savani
arXiv AI
1d ago

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