arXiv AI By Xinmeng Liu, Xianglong Yan, Kaicheng Yang, Weisheng Dong, Yulun Zhang

HGA-Quant: Heterogeneity-Aware Quantization for AutoRegressive Visual Generation Models

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arXiv AI
Oct 12

DualQuant: Dual-scale Calibration-free Weight-and-Activation Quantization for LLMs

DualQuant introduces a dual‑scale, calibration‑free post‑training quantization framework that jointly optimizes weight‑reconstruction MSE and derives per‑channel activation rescalings, enabling effective 4‑bit weight and activation quantization without calibration data. The method employs a non‑differentiable optimization solved via variable splitting and block coordinate descent, supporting a wide range of formats including MX and NVFP4. Experiments on Llama and Qwen models show DualQuant matches or surpasses calibration‑based SmoothQuant and significantly outperforms other calibration‑free baselines, achieving up to 2.61× memory reduction and 2.46× throughput speedup on an RTX 4090.

By Mahsa Salmani, Sayeh Sharify, Hesham Mostafa
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 12

HAMP-LIC: Hessian-Aware Mixed-Precision Post-Training Quantization for Learned Image Compression

Use this plain-text version for the arXiv abstract field: Learned image compression (LIC) models achieve strong rate-distortion performance but are hindered by high computational complexity and encoding-decoding mismatches across heterogeneous hardware platforms. Uniform fixed-precision quantization alleviates these issues but suffers severe quality degradation at low bit widths because it ignores differences in the quantization sensitivities of individual layers.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 28

Activation Outliers Matter: Robust Recovery for Quantized Multimodal LLMs

The paper investigates low‑bit quantization for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), showing that MXFP8 retains near‑lossless performance while 4‑bit formats like MXFP4 and HiF4 cause significant degradation. It identifies activation quantization as the main source of this loss and introduces Residual Fallback Quantization (RFQ), a lightweight framework that adds a quantized residual pathway to improve activation fidelity without architectural changes. Experiments on Wan2.2 and Qwen3‑VL demonstrate that RFQ recovers much of the performance gap to BF16 baselines across generation and reasoning tasks.

By Tanzila Rahman, Mehran Taghian Jazi, Yunke Peng, Zhuang Ma, Anandharaju Durai Raju, Yao Wang, Xing Huang, Hei Yi Mak, Shadan Golestan, Hoang Le, Yonghan Dong, Wei Guo, Yaoyuan Wang