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
Deep neural networks have witnessed remarkable advancements in recent years and have become integral to various applications. However, alongside these developments, training and deployment of neural network models on embedding and edge devices face significant challenges due to limited memory and computational resources.
The paper introduces Llama-Mobile, a framework that quantizes vision‑language models for efficient mobile deployment. It uses a quantization pipeline that generates training data from the model itself, eliminating the need for the original training setup, and employs a novel 2.7‑bit‑per‑parameter format optimized for Arm CPUs. Applying this method, the authors compress the Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct model to 3.7 GB with 8‑bit activations while maintaining strong performance on visual question answering tasks.
By Luka Ribar, Jeevan Bhoot, Douglas Orr
Squeeze10-LLM is a staged mixed‑precision post‑training quantization framework that reduces 16‑bit LLM weights to an average of 1.6 bits per weight by assigning 80% of weights to 1 bit and 20% to 4 bits. It introduces Post‑Binarization Activation Robustness (PBAR), a weight significance metric that considers activation impact, and Full Information Activation Supervision (FIAS), a strategy that preserves activation information to limit error propagation. Experiments on LLaMA and LLaMA2 demonstrate that Squeeze10‑LLM achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance for sub‑2‑bit weight‑only quantization, raising average accuracy from 43% to 56% on six zero‑shot classification tasks.
By Qingcheng Zhu, Yangyang Ren, Linlin Yang, Yanjing Li, Sheng Xu, Haodong Zhu, Juan Zhang, Runqi Wang, Baochang Zhang
arXiv:2607. 18081v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a range of Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, but their high computational and memory demands pose significant challenges for deployment on resource-constrained edge devices.
By Huzaifa Shaaban Kabakibo, Eric Schniedermeyer, Artem Burchanow, Lin Wang
arXiv:2605. 08692v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Post-training weight-only quantization to 4 bits is widely used to reduce the memory and compute costs of large language model inference.
By Beshr IslamBouli, David Jin