arXiv Machine Learning By Tycho F. A. van der Ouderaa, Mart van Baalen, Paul Whatmough, Markus Nagel

Leech Lattice Vector Quantization for Efficient LLM Compression

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arXiv:2603. 11021v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scalar quantization of large language models (LLMs) is fundamentally limited by information-theoretic bounds.

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arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 22

SPHQuant: Efficient extreme low bit weight quantization for Vision-Language Models

SPHQuant introduces a rotation‑free spherical weight‑only quantization framework for Vision‑Language Models, decomposing 8‑dimensional weight vectors into sign, radius, and a positive unit direction. By isolating outlier magnitudes in the radius and allocating extra precision there, it mitigates accuracy loss at extreme low bit‑widths. The method also employs a compact positive‑direction codebook with angular fine‑tuning and a hardware‑friendly GEMV kernel, achieving state‑of‑the‑art performance while boosting decode throughput by 30.3% on RTX A6000 compared to QTIP.

By Kewei Zhang, Zheng Chen, Haotong Qin, Yulun Zhang