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:2601. 22813v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The NVFP4 lower-precision format, supported in hardware by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, promises to allow, for the first time, end-to-end fully-quantized pre-training of massive models such as LLMs.
By Andrei Panferov, Erik Schultheis, Soroush Tabesh, Dan Alistarh
arXiv:2601. 07475v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The emergence of fine-grained numerical formats like NVFP4 presents new opportunities for efficient Large Language Model (LLM) inference.
By Haoqian Meng, Yilun Luo, Yafei Zhao, Wenyuan Liu, Peng Zhang, Xindian Ma
PRQuant introduces a training‑free, low‑overhead method for low‑bit quantization of linear layers by permuting input channels that cause the largest quantization error into contiguous tail blocks and precomputing residual weight sub‑tensors. The approach eliminates the need for online gathering during inference, converting scattered residual compensation into a regular tail‑augmented GEMM and thereby reducing latency. Experiments show that PRQuant lowers down‑projection reconstruction error and outperforms standard MXFP4 and other post‑training quantization baselines on five downstream benchmarks, improving accuracy by up to 1.24 points on Qwen3‑4B‑Instruct‑2507.
By Peiran Wang, Anqi Wang, Jiaying Zhao, Huiwen Yang, Zhenyu Ming, Rongqian Wang, Yiwu Yao, Kun Tian, Xin Yao, Gong Zhang, Fan Yang, Zhongyi Huang
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
arXiv:2606. 26587v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Low-bit floating-point formats and semi-structured sparsity are increasingly supported by modern accelerators, yet combining them for LLM activation compression remains challenging: activations contain input-dependent outliers that dominate block scales in FP4 quantization, and directly applying N:M sparsity masks discards moderate values, coupling sparsification loss with quantization error.
By Haoqian Meng, Yilun Luo, Yafei Zhao, Wenyuan Liu, Huaqing Zheng, Xindian Ma, Peng Zhang