arXiv:2610.08164v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Low-rank quantization error compensation (LQEC) recovers the accuracy lost under aggressive weight quantization by attaching a closed-form rank-$r$ ada...
By Seobin Song, Geonho Lee, Janghwan Lee, Jungwook Choi
arXiv:2606. 00494v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-Training Quantization (PTQ) and Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) constitute the standard pipeline for efficient Large Language Model (LLM) deployment.
By Wneya Yu, Chao Zhang, Li Wang, Samson Lasaulce, Merouane Debbah
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...
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:2608. 14149v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent training-free post-training quantization methods restore model accuracy through closed-form residual compensation.
By Lin-Fa Lee, Yi-Yu Chang, Kuo-Hei Yeh
arXiv:2606. 01412v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training quantization is widely used for compressing large neural networks, but aggressive low-bit quantization can significantly degrade model quality.
By Shihao Zhang, Rayan Saab
arXiv:2605.11222v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Quantization is an effective strategy to reduce the storage and computation footprint of large language models (LLMs). Post-training quantization (...
By Ryan Lucas, Mehdi Makni, Xiang Meng, Adam Deng, Rahul Mazumder
The paper introduces a post‑training softmax reparameterization technique that selects a functionally equivalent output head before quantization. By subtracting a scalar multiple of the vocabulary‑row mean from each output row and tuning this coefficient via validation KL, the method preserves the full‑precision softmax distribution while enabling efficient W4 quantization. Experiments on seven heads show significant error reductions and latency improvements, with the approach remaining complementary to other quantization strategies and transferable across datasets.
By Asim Kadav, Christian Flores, Chirag Arora, Varun Kotte, Hongbo Zheng, Lan Yan, Priya Shanmugasundaram, Tracy Holloway King
The paper introduces the "Compression Trinity," a unified framework that jointly applies sparsity, quantization, and low‑rank approximations to compress large language models. It presents several methods—MKOR, SLoPe, OPTIMA, PATCH, and SLiM—that leverage these three pillars to accelerate training, reduce memory bandwidth, and recover accuracy, achieving significant speedups and accuracy gains over existing techniques. The results demonstrate that combining all three compression strategies is essential for efficient, scalable, high‑performance LLM deployment.
By Mohammad Mozaffari
arXiv:2608. 15567v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Weight-only post-training quantization (PTQ) enables the deployment of large language models under tight memory budgets, but accuracy often collapses at 2-3 bits.
By Gunjun Lee, Sehwan Son, Younjoo Lee, Byungjun Kim, Jung Ho Ahn
Prohibitive computational and environmental costs impede the scalable deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs). Traditional compression techniques (sparsity, quantization, low-rank approximations) a...
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